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Folk music "Water Lotus" from the album "Chinese Music Map to hear the Guzheng music collection Su Chang"

The Lotus on the Water. The lotus on the water

Folk music Biography: Luo Jiuxiang Finishing: Raoning New nationality: Han Nationality: Guangdong Province

Guzheng: Su Chang

"Lotus out of the Water", "Jackdaw Playing in the water", "Pingsha Falling Wild Geese" and "Liu Qingniang" are both classics of traditional Guzheng solo, and are also representative works of Guangdong Han music Zheng music (also known as Hakka Zheng music). The origin of Han music can be traced back to the large-scale southern migration of Han people since the Western Jin Dynasty, so the formation of "Water Lotus" has a long history. From the two Jin Dynasties to the Southern Song Dynasty, when people in the Central Plains moved south to the east of Guangdong to avoid the war, this song had already spread. According to Qing Qian hot storage "Qing music tone selection", the explanation of this song cloud: "Cover with red lotus water, the beginning of the music played, symbolizing the tender." This can be used to raise the board in all the tones of the flexible wire."

At first, the melody is clear and faint, the green leaves are high, the water is round, and from time to time, it slips into strings between the wind, sliding into strings of free zheng notes, and between the zheng notes flowing, according to the floating lotus incense, the music gradually spreads out the meaningful style of the literati painting, the water hall wind is full of dark incense, the curtain is open, there is a curl of water and smoke, suddenly, the time has changed, the eyes are already in the autumn, the lotus pond is scattered, Lotus gradually lost, lotus heart will be dead, lotus leaves are already back roll west wind, leaf edge still have the autumn light, see the injury, and the lotus stem is still not spreading, Tingting net plant, still retain the wind of a gentleman, is a unique lotus style and integrity.