The music "Moon over Guanshan" depicts a picture of a cold and vast moonlit night, integrating the scenery of Guanshan frontier fortress and the homesickness of the border guards into the tall buildings on the moonlit night, expressing the poet's concern for the soldiers and his yearning for peace. .
The guqin song "Moon Over the Mountains" is a widely circulated "moon song" among the guqin music. It is named after filling in the verses of "Moon over the Mountains" by Li Bai. The towering Tianshan Mountains, the vast sea of ??clouds, and the infinite moonlight. The wind howled and passed over the border. Bai Dengshan, the founder of the Han Dynasty, fought against the Xiongnu. The barbarians coveted the vast rivers and mountains of Qinghai, a land of smoke and smoke in past dynasties. The soldiers guarding the border looked up at the border towns and longed to return home.
"Guan Shan Yue" looks at the endless ethnic conflicts on the ancient frontier and reveals the huge sacrifices caused by the war. However, it does not simply condemn or praise the war, but meditates on a generation. The heavy price paid for it. The emotions evoked by the thousands of miles of frontier fortress scenes in "Moon Over the Mountains" are so vast and broad-minded, not limited to one momentary event, but with a more far-reaching and quiet thinking, and in this thinking, the feelings of homesickness and farewell are integrated. Go in to reveal a more profound artistic conception.
Introduction to the work:
"Guan Shan Yue" is a melody that is easily familiar to people. It was first seen in "Qin Xue Guan Jian" (lithographed version in 1630). This piece of music only appeared in the "Mei'an Qinpu" in 1931. It was passed down by Wang Binlu, a qin player of the Zhucheng School in Shandong, and has been widely circulated. This piece of music is similar to the 1910 Jinan Mingshengshe ditty "Criticizing Lovers".
There is a sentence in the ancient Mulan poem: "Thousands of miles away to fight in the army, passing through the mountains is like flying; the fresh air spreads to the golden watch, and the cold light shines on the iron clothes." Among the drumming songs of the Han Dynasty is "Guan Shan Yue", and among the Xianghe songs is "Du Guan Shan". It reflects the Zhengren's dissatisfaction with guarding the frontier far away. Mr. Yang Yinliu tried to match Li Bai's poem of the same name, which is helpful for understanding this piece of music.