On September 1893, the famous folk musician Hua was born in Wuxi. A song "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" made China and the world know and remember the name of A Bing.
■ "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" became a swan song.
/kloc-in the summer of 0/950, musicians Yang and Cao Anhe from the Central Conservatory of Music came to Wuxi with an imported wire recorder, and found a famous local folk artist-"Blind Man" to record his performance. When two experts explained their intentions, A Bing replied, "I haven't played musical instruments for two years, and my skills are poor. I can't use any of my musical instruments. " It is said that two years ago, a mouse bit A Bing's strings. As a blind man living in the dark, A Bing thought it was "God's punishment", that is, he gave up playing. When Mr. Yang heard about it, he immediately bought erhu and pipa for him, persuaded him with Cao Anhe, and finally agreed to play. He said, "I have been idle for too long. Let me practice at home for three days before playing. " Three days later, two experts recorded A Bing's three erhu songs and three pipa songs, including Two Springs Reflecting the Moon.
The following year, when two experts, Yang and Cao, visited Wuxi again, the experienced artist had passed away, and the six pieces of music left behind had become a swan song. However, with the passage of time, A Bing has not been forgotten by people. His name spread from Wuxi to Beijing, to the whole country and to the world.
■ A Bing is in the private sector
The painter's real name is Hua (1893? -1950), a native of Dongting, Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, is the son of Hua Qinghe, a Taoist priest in the local "Leizundian". Huaqing River, known as "Hua", is good at playing erhu, sanxian and pipa. Among them, pipa playing is the most proficient.
Hua lost his mother at the age of 4 and studied music performance with his father in Taoist temple; At the age of 20, his father died of illness; 2 1 year-old, suffering from eye diseases, blind at the age of 35. Due to social unrest, no life, Taoist property was sold short, and he could no longer be a Taoist, so he had to live on the streets and make a living by busking, suffering from human suffering.
Hua is talented and has studied hard since childhood. In winter, in order to play pipa well, he rubs his hands with ice and exercises his fingers. On summer nights, when he practiced erhu, he soaked his feet in water to prevent mosquito bites. It can really be said that "practice three or nine in winter and three volts in summer". It is because of such efforts that he mastered the playing skills of erhu, sanxian, pipa and flute at the age of 13, and was unanimously recognized by the Taoist circles in Wuxi at the age of 16. Since then, despite the accusations of his father and Taoist elders, Hua has indulged in exchanges and discussions with wandering folk artists, from which he has learned a wealth of folk music from all over the world.
Hua's national instrumental performance is rooted in his profound life experience and rich national heritage. He can create, adapt and play works closely related to the times according to his feelings about life. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's time, he once wrote and sang "The Traitor's End" and other minor songs in the street. Song Ting, his famous erhu opera, pinned his hopes for national liberation on the historical fact that Yue Fei, a famous Southern Song Dynasty player, resisted gold. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he composed and sang "Before the Wolf, After the Tiger" and sang in the street, exposing and attacking the reactionary rule of the Kuomintang. He created and performed art in the form of lively news, showing noble national integrity and strong democratic consciousness.
Hua has high artistic attainments in erhu, pipa and other works of art, but his erhu songs "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", "Listening to Pine", "Cold Night" and pipa songs "Big Waves Wasting the Sand", "Zhaojun Out of the Plug" and "Dragon Boat" were included in the music collection published by Music Publishing House 1956.
His "Cold Spring Breeze" is similar to "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" in timbre, and its performance in bright sound area is more lively, smooth and extensive, showing a vibrant world. His pipa "Waves on the Sand" is based on Your Legend, one of the top ten gongs and drums. It has a strong tone, shows warm emotions, and makes people intoxicated with the artistic conception of "harmony between man and nature". The picture of Zhao Jun is a pipa music by Professor Hua Qinghe, the father of China, which shows a dignified, dynamic and lively image. Pipa Dragon Boat originated from a folk divertimento in the south of the Yangtze River, which shows the cheerful and enthusiastic scene of dragon boat race on the Dragon Boat Festival and reflects the author's interest in folk life ... These works show China's rich spiritual world. Among them, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" has the most extensive influence.
"Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" is the most outstanding erhu song in China. This song was originally a Taoist suona song with a strong religious music style. In the late 1930s, through repeated performance, processing and creation, Hua introduced folk songs, minor tunes, Jiangnan silk and bamboo, southern Jiangsu percussion, beach spring tune and even the tone of Guangdong music "Sanyue". From the initial amorphous fragment to the formation of a complete structure, it has gone through a long process, which is called "tune according to the heart" or "spontaneous cavity" in China/kloc-0. In the summer of 950, Mr. Yang, a famous Chinese music historian, and others recorded a wire recording for folk music during their "rescue" collection, and discussed with Mr. Hua, and named it "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon".
The melody of the work is euphemistic and smooth, with ups and downs and far-reaching artistic conception. The author uses the wide range of five positions on the erhu to play, and with the vigorous bow-moving technique, reveals the emotional appeal of weeping and indignation, and the vision of a bright and ideal realm, showing the feelings and unyielding character of a wandering artist who has experienced the ups and downs of life in old China, which has a strong artistic appeal.