Music, like poetry, has two very important points: first, it should have a sense of picture, so that a beautiful picture will emerge immediately when people listen to it, thus generating various associations; The other is "endless words, endless meanings". Even if the music is over, its beauty still lingers. If these two points are satisfied, music is undoubtedly the introduction.
This is the case with the Guqin music "Tea Fragrance and White Clouds Floating" written by young musician Su Yi and played by the famous Guqin teacher Yang Qing.
When I first heard this song, I was fascinated. Later, it was simply set to a single loop, and I didn't feel upset after listening to it for dozens of times. After listening for a long time, I have a dream world of drinking tea and playing the piano in Shan Ye. Have you ever been to the faint tea garden in Fujian? Meijiawu in Longjing, Hangzhou, or the old tea forest in the mountains of Pu 'er, Yunnan? The music is over, and my heart is still full of its aftermath. Perhaps this is what people often say about the beauty of the piano.
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In this way, with joy and urgency, I tried to add lyrics to this song:
Generally speaking, this piece of music is quiet, beautiful and open. When adding words, mainly consider the following points:
1. The title of the song is "Tea Fragrance and White Clouds Floating". When adding words, there are naturally scenes such as valleys, streams, tea gardens, flowers, trees, birds and butterflies, clouds and tea people.
2. How to express the fragrance of tea? This is very abstract, invisible and intangible. In order to express its meaning and enhance the story and appeal of the song, I added a story of Qin tea welcoming guests: the owner of Chashan went up the mountain early in the morning to make tea and make mountain spring water, and then waited for the arrival of an old friend whom I hadn't seen for years. The two of them are going to have tea together in the mountains and play the piano together to renew their friendship. In order to express this story, the content is divided into several links:
? (1) The beauty of tea garden. From a distance, the terraces of the whole tea garden are undulating, the hills are connected with the valleys, and the mountain roads are tortuous. Walking into the depths of the jungle, the sunlight from the branches shines mottled light and shadow by the stream. People can't help but feel as if they have walked into nine streams and eighteen streams in Hangzhou and walked along the stream. The air is fresh, the smoke trees are sad, and the Longjing tea is accompanied by a breeze. "Nine streams and eighteen streams of smoke are warm, the sky is deep in the forest, and the shadows are drunk." It's good to be in it.
? (2) go up the mountain to pick tea. In order to welcome the arrival of old friends, you can only drink the best tea at the top of the mountain. So, early in the morning, I set out in the morning dew, climbed the mountain with the shadow of birds, and found the route for butterflies to fly into the long path. Overhead is a "sky". Looking back, there are green tea gardens all over the mountains. The higher you go, the more foggy you are. This is a perspective from low to high.
? (3) wait for friends. After tea, I paved the mountain spring and moved out of the small mud stove for making tea, waiting for my friend who I haven't seen for years to arrive. How urgent and full of expectation is the mood at this moment? Why? Because I am anxious to "recall the past with my old friends". At this time, the rhythm of music has also become very compact and powerful, which is in line with the state of mind of waiting for friends to arrive. Try to listen carefully to the rhythm of the music?
(4) reunion of old friends. An old friend has arrived, a cup of new tea asks how warm and cold it is, and a piano sounds to relieve lovesickness. The owner of the house, who is from Shan Ye, is on the fence with friends, playing the piano, drinking tea and singing. One plays and the other sings, changing roles from time to time, and they soon fall in love.
In the early spring, spring tea shoots like a sparrow's tongue, apricot flowers are shy and quietly half-open, birds fly around and whisper, and there is movement in silence, forming a picture of "apricot flowers half-open listening to birds".
In a short time, with the gust of mountain wind blowing, the pear blossoms all over the mountain rose in clusters, as if it suddenly snowed in the sky. They are fluttering, fluttering, flying over the fence, flying over the fence, flying over the roof, flying over the sky ... Pears are scattered everywhere, as light as snowflakes. What about Long song's two friends who play the piano? They have been shrouded in the world of snowflakes.
"The small garden fence is full of old people playing the piano, and the sound of the piano is endless." The dancing of pear blossoms seems to be integrated with the sudden relief of the mountain wind, the ups and downs of the piano and the delicate fragrance of flowers, realizing a harmonious and brilliant blurred dream.
When the wind becomes soft and the birds croak, the strings slow down. Pear blossoms fell gently, one by one, all over Shan Ye, all over the fence yard, on the hands of two friends, on the strings, and on the edge of the teacup, but they felt nothing.
Why? Because they have entered the realm of selflessness and have not been disturbed. When old friends meet again, there are endless words and endless friendship. With the ups and downs of music, they seem to have returned to the beautiful and innocent past, forgetting the passage of time and knowing nothing about what happened around them.
? (5) When the piano reaches its peak, the artistic conception will be sublimated: the two forget their worries, silently depend on each other, let the years be warm, and unconsciously turn to the western hills, and the sky is full of red clouds ... mountains, tea gardens, hedgerows and huts complement each other; Tea is fragrant, the piano is ringing, and friends are in harmony. Pears dyed with a thin golden light are flying all over the sky, and the breath of people, piano and nature arises spontaneously. This is the special atmosphere created when the piano arrived.
How can the joy of tea fragrance, harp fragrance, apricot blossom and pear blossom be compared with the joy of reunion of old friends? Finally, the tune ended peacefully in "looking at each other silently and looking at each other at sunset".
The difficulty of this work is how to express the fragrance of tea. It may be difficult to describe it directly. If a story is used to indirectly set off and contrast the tea fragrance with the external environment, there will be a lot of imagination and charming colors.
This is the overall idea when I add words, but the rhyming and edge-linking rules of words are not enough, which need to be slowly revised and polished later.
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After adding good words, I sang while listening to music, and immediately felt different, especially when I sang the last sentence, "Looking at each other silently in the sunset", I felt very encouraged and had an inexplicable and exciting feeling. This feeling of contrast is like adding a handful of new wood to the burning stove in winter when I was a child, and the instantaneous heat flow hits my face, making our hearts warm. This is how I feel.
Try to tell your friends the lyrics and listening, and soon many replies will fly in:
Some people say: "Music is ethereal and soothing, making people forget their troubles, and beautiful pictures emerge in their minds;" The idyllic rural scenery is really charming and healing! "
Some people also said, "I have listened to this song since I got up early in the morning, and I have listened to it for more than ten times." I can't bear to give up. " What a beautiful yearning and expectation it is to listen to the birds' songs with the apricot blossom half open. "
Some people can't hold back their joy and write poems happily: "I can read or hope, I can get drunk." If there is a peach blossom garden in my heart, where is the water cloud sword? "
Someone wrote a poem saying, "Taste fragrant tea, listen to melodious music, enjoy pleasing words, watch the scenery of Chashan Mountain, watch Xiangyun Dance, love tea pickers and talk about brotherhood!" This kind of situation, life geometry? "
Others listened and recited, probably because their hearts were touched. They commented, "Music has brought us to another world, and now I like the classical culture of China more and more."
A piano piece can bring us so much joy and encouragement, which shows that "Tea Fragrance and White Clouds Gone with the Wind" is beautiful, euphemistic, quiet, warm and persistent for a long time, so it also makes people feel beautiful and nostalgic. This is the biggest reason why I recommend it.
It has been more than two years since the COVID-19 epidemic swept the world in early 2020, but it has not subsided and is still causing serious damage to our society, economy and daily life. Vaccination, nucleic acid detection, travel restrictions, home isolation, home self-test and home office have become the new normal that has never been seen in history. Perhaps, listening to Guqin music like Tea Fragrance and White Clouds is of great benefit to us to keep a mind that cherishes beauty, believes beauty, practices beauty and creates a better future. I take this opportunity to hope that the epidemic will disappear from human history as soon as possible.
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Finally, let's talk about the beauty of Qin Jing briefly to end this article. As we said at the beginning, the artistic conception of a song is extremely important and the key to touching people's hearts.
What is artistic conception? It is a realm that people can feel and understand, but it is difficult to express clearly and concretely. In other words, it is difficult to describe it in words, and you can only experience it slowly.
Perhaps, the artistic conception is what Bai Juyi, a great poet, said, "The string is condensed and refers to the throat, without heavy feelings."
Perhaps it was Qian Qi (uncle of Huai Su, a poet and great calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty) who said, "At the end of the song, there are several peaks on the river."
Perhaps, it is what Zhang said, "Who saw the moon by the river first? When did Jiang Yue take the photo at the beginning of the year? Baiyun has gone, and Qingfeng is at a loss. "
In any case, we will eventually return to what Tao Yuanming said: "This makes sense, I forgot what I want to argue." Isn't it? ?
Poetry, wine, country, music, tea and flowers are always inseparable. They are all good things to produce artistic conception, and the "truth" in people's hearts is the root soul to produce artistic conception.
Once again, the whole song "Tea Fragrance and White Clouds Gone with the Wind" is carefully tasted. The rhythm is slow and beautiful, and there seems to be no high-key tone, but it does not affect its beauty. Passion is a kind of beauty, small jasper is a kind of beauty, and simplicity is also a kind of beauty. There is no doubt that "Tea Fragrance and White Clouds Gone with the Wind" belongs to the last genre.
Tea is light, wine is slightly drunk, flowers are light and fragrant, and gentlemen value friendship. This song focuses on elegance, which conforms to this principle. Lightweight and durable, elegant and fresh.
This song was composed by Su Yi and played by Mr. Yang Qing, and included in the album "Listening to the Rain in the Mid-Levels". I like their style very much. Finally, let me introduce these two musicians again:
Su Yi, born in Fujian, graduated from the Music Department of Xiamen University in 1980s, and is a young music producer. Representative works include Growing Old with You, Learning from this Life, Feeling at ease and so on.
Yang Qing, born in 195 1, is a famous guqin artist and music educator. He once gave a series of lectures on the program "Lecture Room". You will know his position and influence in the field of Chinese guqin after reading it.