The deeds of blind A Bing

Hua, formerly known as 1983, was born in Wuxi on August 7th. He is a folk musician and a Taoist school. He died of blindness due to eye diseases on February 4, 1950 at/kloc-0.

He assiduously studied Taoist music, kept improving, widely absorbed the tunes of folk music, and wrote and played more than 270 folk music in his life. His father, Huaqing River, is the head of Leizun Hall, a Taoist temple in Sanqing Hall, Wuxi, and is good at Taoist music. Hua lost his mother when he was 3 years old and was raised by his aunt. At the age of 8, he joined his father as a Taoist in Leizuntang. I began to study in a private school for three years, and then I learned drums, flutes, erhu, pipa and other musical instruments from my father. 12 years old has been able to play a variety of musical instruments, often participating in confession, chanting, playing music and other activities. 18 years old, known as Wuxi Daole expert.

There are six Erhu songs, two springs reflecting the moon, listening to Songtao, cold spring breeze and pipa, big waves scouring sand, dragon boat and Zhaojun out of the fortress, in A Bing.

A Bing's most used musical instruments are still the mahogany huqin handed down from his family and the music he often plays. It is also the song "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon", which symbolizes his life's fate-tenderness, bitterness, elegance, resentment, tranquility and uneasiness, and various emotions are intertwined, like a bright moon in the dark. He regards this song as important as his own eyes. He is still constantly revising and polishing music thoughts and rhythms. He wants to add another experience to his own experience: the experience of music! Similarly, he also wants to add another kind of pain to the pain: the pain of music.

On the program he used to visit the teahouse, the title of this song was Huishan Er Quan for the time being-it was not until half a year before his death that he announced its name to outsiders in a proud tone of a creator.

The song didn't have a title at first, but A Bing didn't play it when he was walking in the street. A Bing once called it "spontaneous chamber", and his neighbors called it "Yi Xin Qu". Later, when Yang and Cao Anhe recorded it, they linked it with Er Quan, a famous scenic spot in Wuxi, and named it "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" (Huishan Spring in Wuxi, Jiangsu, known as "the second spring in the world"). He Lvting once said: "The nickname" Two Springs Reflecting the Moon "actually contradicts his music. Music does not describe the scenery of Erquan reflecting the moon, but profoundly expresses the painful life experience of blind A Bing. "

1950 In the late autumn, at a concert held in Wuxi, A Bing played this song for the first time and for the last time, and won prolonged applause from the audience. 195 1, Tianjin People's Broadcasting Station played this song for the first time; 1959 National Day, China Foreign Cultural Association presented this song to international friends as one of the representatives of China folk music. Since then, this song has been widely circulated at home and abroad and won high praise. 1985, this song was recorded in the United States and topped the list of eleven popular China music works in the United States.

Later, Peng Xiuwen adapted this song into a national instrumental ensemble; Wu Zuqiang adapted it into a string ensemble; Violin solo adapted by Ding He; Ding Shande adapted it into a string quartet and so on. The Recording Society of China once made a wire recording of A Bing playing this song in the summer of 1950, which sold well at home and abroad.

From beginning to end, this piece of music reveals the thoughts and feelings of a blind artist who has suffered from human suffering and pain. The works show unique folk performance skills and styles, as well as unparalleled profound artistic conception. They show the unique charm of China erhu art and broaden the expressive force of erhu art, and won the "20th Century China Music Classic Award".