? Zen Heart in Cloudy Waters" is an upbeat, far-reaching guqin piece that I have been enjoying for several years. Every time I listen to it, I feel that there is a kind of "boat shadow rippling smooth my line" of beauty surging to my heart, but at the same time, it will also inexplicably give birth to a trace of sadness and disappointment.
Why is this so? Because there is a very touching story behind the song, which many people may not know. The story goes like this:? In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a beautiful girl named Zen Xin among the Shijingshan Mountains. She was born intelligent and enlightened, and was famous in the countryside for her marvelous zither. One day, there came a young Taoist priest who traveled far away, and his name was "Yunshui Zhenzhen". The monk said he would stay at Zen Xin's house for a few days, and ended up staying for more than a year without any intention of leaving. During the day, he and Zen Xin played the zither by the stream and discussed their art, while at night they enjoyed the stars together. Over time, there was gossip. In desperation, Yun Shui had to say goodbye to Zen Xin and drifted away.
Zen heart sent sixteen miles away, but send the king a thousand miles there will be a goodbye. Zen heart folded willow gift, cloud water played a song for farewell. In addition to the song in the spiritual platform of the empty, unattached to the idea of more expression of the two love, can not bear to part of the love, the name of the song is called "clouds and water Zen heart". Legend has it that later on, Zen Xin was depressed and died at a young age. When she was critically ill, she plucked the first note of the piece on her seven-stringed zither. This is the background to the creation of the guqin piece "Zen Heart in Cloudy Waters", and the reason why the piece gives us so much sadness! There are several versions of the words of the piece, all of them very beautiful and philosophical and profound, but the words are based on lyricism and ideology. If we were to express the meaning of the song in a narrative way, what would be the effect? Wouldn't it be more genuine and touching? With this desire, I tried to add words to the tune:?
The first time I saw a woman in the world, she was a woman in the world.
2, the content of the arrangement, before the joy after the sadness, the song as a whole on the joy of the ingredients, the middle of the appropriate lyric, exclamation and rhetorical questions, used to support the atmosphere. 3, on the words, and strive to elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation, euphemistic and moving. The last paragraph of the rhythm changes a lot, not good to break the sentence, need to listen to a few times.? After the lyrics were written out of the big framework, sent to a few friends to try to listen. Some people gave very valuable advice, such as the sentence "Zi Gui dripping blood cry", the last line of the "wind circuit breaks the gusts of the repeated crows, the cold night of the lone shadow of the sound of the weeping", are friends of the words and phrases, and all of a sudden rhymes, but also to enhance the mood of the song, thank you again, I'm sorry. The latter also need to slowly modify and embellish.
Some people say: "If I don't listen to your introduction, I don't know that there is such a beautiful story behind the song, it's really touching. If someone can sing it, it's even better, I believe I will meet the soulmate." Someone said, "Looking at the lyrics and listening carefully to the song, your words managed to bring me in."Some people said their own sense of listening: "murmuring water, the past curtains, there is the companion of the solid joy, but also a few sorrows, the chorus and a faint sadness."
There are also people who are happy to write a poem: "empty steps and lonely shadow for who? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. Write out the clouds and water Zen mind, everything is suddenly broken hearted to go!" A zither song, why will trigger so many associations and touched it? The mood is playing a role. The piano and poetry, landscape painting, etc., the same, they pursue the highest state is "like the image of the image, words outside the meaning, taste outside the taste, rhyme outside the Zhi". That is to say, good poetry, literature, music, paintings, not simply stay in the sight of things, things, people and words on the surface, but will lead people to jump out, think and taste of the aesthetics, philosophy, Zen, life, emotions and other higher level of things, so as to produce a lingering aftertaste of the beauty of. This is the charm of the mood.? When we close our eyes and savor the Guqin piece "Zen Heart in Cloudy Waters" again, we will find that the rhythm of the piece is very strong, with a sense of joy like a light boat swinging in the water, but also with a sense of undulation and progression like swallows chasing high clouds. But no matter how it changes, it is filled and filled with a poignant ancient legend, as well as the two lovers, y in love, unwilling to part and hate the regret of a lifetime. This is where the beauty of the song lies.
Listen to the song between the clouds and water, realize the Zen mind. Finally, let us sincerely wish that the two lovers who love but can not be, have long been in another world to renew the previous destiny, always keep each other often follow each other, no longer separate. Listen, the sound of the piano is how long and long, this long and long and give us how much can only be understood not to say the beautiful and spiritual inspiration.