Influenced by his father Ruan Yu, Ruan Ji is a piano expert. In his poem "Yong Huai", he said, "I can't sleep at night, but sit and play the piano", which shows his anguish and sadness caused by his firm refusal to cooperate with Sima's family under the dark rule.
As a kind of literary creation with individual characteristics, Ruan Ji's poems are obscure and tortuous, "words are in the eyes and ears, and feelings are on the barren table", but as a musical work, Ruan Ji can express his infinite inner feelings in this form that is enough to express his feelings. According to legend, the drunkenness he created vividly shows Ruan Ji's true mentality of being afraid, worried, angry and avoiding under the dark rule of Sima's killing dissidents.
According to Zhu Quan's "Magic Secret Spectrum", "It's a song, written by Ruan Ji. Sighing is out of place, so I forget the world, care about the skeleton, and commit myself to drinking for fun and lifelong ambition. If it's interesting, it's really an addiction and there's a way to save it. Beauty is in it, so it is not vulgar, and the one who reaches it gets it. " This passage tells the true meaning of Ruan Ji's "drunkenness".
Drunkenness leads to a dream of death, which is included in the music scores of Magic Secret Spectrum (1425), Feng Xuanpin (1539) and Rebuilding the True Story (1585). According to Mr. Yao Bingyan's score (refer to the first issue of Wind Music 198 1 supervisor, and Yao Bingyan's "after the lyre"), the intoxicating three-beat rhythm is rare in guqin music. The musical theme of this song is a phrase that keeps jumping up and down:
This theme is characterized by taking the stable tones such as modal tonic and tonic as the starting and ending fulcrums of each beat, and embedding a big jumping interval in the middle, thus causing the effect of reversing the weight of the beat and depicting the drunken stumbling manner. The following two sections repeat the inflection sentence, which is characterized by emphasizing the unstable mode tone and changing rhythm and expressing the author's inner despair and pain:
The whole song deepens feelings through five cycles, and fully expresses the protagonist's ambivalence that he is strongly dissatisfied with the dark reality and can't find a way out through the image of a drunk. The musical technique is concise, the image is full, and the thought is profound, which is also the musical embodiment of the literati's high cultural accomplishment. Alcoholics are the treasures of ancient music in China.