"Farewell Song" is a Chinese song written by artist Li Shutong.
Lyric content:
Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky. The evening breeze carries the faint sound of willow flutes, and the sun sets outside the mountains. At the end of the sky, in the corner of the earth, acquaintances are half scattered;
One glass of turbid wine is all the fun, don’t sleep in the cold tonight. Outside the pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass reaches the sky. I asked you when you were going to come. Don't linger when you come.
At the end of the sky, in the corner of the earth, close friends are scattered; life is rarely about reunions, but there are many separations.
The two songs "Farewell" and "Traveler's Sorrow" are widely circulated in China and Japan to this day, but the English song "Dream of Home and Mother" is not remembered by people in the United States. Few people know it anymore. The title of the song "Farewell" is often mistaken as "Li Ge". Although "Farewell" is a Li song, "Li Ge" is not its song name. This song was performed by the Chinese rock band Tang Dynasty Band in 1997.
Li Shutong, a native of Pinghu, Zhejiang, was born in Tianjin on September 20, the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1880), and his French name is Yanyin , No. Hongyi, Wanqing old man. He is the pioneer of China's New Culture Movement, an outstanding artist, educator, thinker, and innovator. He is an outstanding representative of the combination of traditional Chinese culture and Buddhist culture. He is not only the most outstanding monk in the history of modern Chinese Buddhism, but also the A well-known person with a high international reputation. He is a master whose "twenty articles shocked the world". He integrates poetry, lyrics, calligraphy and painting, seal cutting, music, drama, and literature. In many fields, he pioneered the splendid culture and art of China.
He pushed the art of calligraphy in ancient China to the extreme, "simple and perfect, as if it were made by nature." Modern cultural celebrities such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo regarded it as the ultimate honor to get a calligraphy from the master. He was the first pioneer to spread Western music to China. His "Farewell Song" has been sung for decades and has become a classic.
At the same time, he was also the first teacher in China to pioneer nude sketching. With outstanding artistic attainments, it has successively cultivated some cultural celebrities such as the famous painter Feng Zikai and the musician Liu Zhiping. He dedicated himself to the Buddha, did not eat after noon, studied Vinaya diligently, promoted Buddhism, and saved all sentient beings from the sea of ??suffering. He was regarded as the eleventh generation ancestor of the Vinaya sect by Buddhist disciples. He has left endless spiritual wealth for the world. His life is full of legend. He is a typical figure in China who is extremely gorgeous but ends in mediocrity.