Wen Duan Honggang
In the first half of the 20th century, China gave birth to many world-renowned great musicians, who interpreted the national spirit with different musical styles, created a new situation in Chinese national music, and let the world understand that China does not lack musical geniuses, and Chinese musical geniuses can completely break the wrist with world-class music masters.
If Nie Er, who created the national anthem "March of the Volunteer Army", has a label of majestic and high musical style, and Xian Xinghai, who created the chorus vocal music "Yellow River Chorus", is characterized by grandeur and grandeur, then Ah Bing, a folk music master who created world famous songs such as "Erquan Yingyue", "Great Wave Taosha", and "Zhaojun Out of the Plug", his style is exciting and deep, such as crying, and has a distinct national flavor, which is his national music in China has won the praise of the world.
"Erquan Yingyue" is Ah Bing's most important masterpiece, but also a well-known erhu famous song at home and abroad, known as "Ah Bing's self-described lament", this song has represented Chinese folk instrumental music to participate in the World Music Festival many times, and won numerous awards.
"Erquan Yingyue" was created in 1949, it was composed by Ah Bing a year before his death, at this time Ah Bing, blind in both eyes has been blind for more than 20 years, living on the street to sell singing for a living, full of hardships of the bottom life, in the face of unfortunate life, he put his personal fate and national destiny into this song, so that the song burst out of a strong lyrical meaning, sound gripping, tear-inducing, there is a touching spiritual force, expressing a deep and open-minded life experience.
People have borders, art has no borders. Internationally, the popularity and influence of "Two Springs And The Moon" is also very high, and those who have enjoyed this song have resonated.
In 1978, japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa came to the Central Conservatory of Music, and after listening to a girl's erhu performance of "Erquan Yingyue", she was moved to tears and said to the audience: This kind of music should kneel down and listen.
In 1985, a professional newspaper in the United States rated the 10 most popular pop songs among Westerners, and "Two Springs And Moon" ranked first.
In 1991, after listening to the recording of "Two Springs and The Moon" at a concert in the United States, a British musician excitedly said to a person from Beethoven's hometown: He is Beethoven of China!
To this day, as long as people talk about music and erhu songs, "Erquan Yingyue" is definitely an artistic treasure that cannot be bypassed.
Compared with the brilliant achievements in music, Ah Bing in real life can be said to be ill-fated, his life has ups and downs, as absurd as drama, and the sour, sweet, bitter and spicy in the world and the cold of the world have been tasted by him.
Ah Bing (1893-1950), formerly known as Hua Yanjun, was born next to the "Lei Zun Hall" in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. His mother, Wu Afen, was a lady, while his father, Hua Qinghe, was a Taoist monk, and such a birth was destined to be difficult to be accepted by worldly life.
Wu Afen married a young master of the local Qin family for only half a year, and her husband died. At her husband's funeral, he invited Hua Qinghe, a Taoist priest of the Lei Zun Hall, to do things.
With the increase of contact, Wu Afen and Hua Qinghe gradually developed feelings, and eventually gave birth to Ah Bing. It can be said that Ah Bing is an authentic bastard.
After Ah Bing's birth, his parents did not dare to recognize him, so they had to secretly send him to his aunt in the countryside to raise him.
When he was 8 years old, Ah Bing's mother Wu Afen had been 4 years away from his death, and the rumors outside had gradually decreased, and his father Hua Qinghe took Ah Bing to the Lei Zun Hall to become a small Taoist.
His father had a lot of research on Taoist music, and folk instruments such as flutes, pipas, erhu, and cowhide drums were all played by him. Influenced and influenced by his father, at the age of 12, Ah Bing began to contact folk musical instruments. Unexpectedly, his unassuming Ah Bing quickly showed unparalleled talent in music, and many pieces he only practiced a few times, he could play them with a board and an eye, which made the people around him feel incredible.
Under the tutelage of his father, Ah Bing's musical talent was released step by step.
More importantly, Ah Bing was born with a good voice, and when he participated in Taoist music performances at the age of 17, he left a very deep impression on people, and since then, he has been known as a "little heavenly master".
Father and son are dependent on each other, and although the material life is not rich, it is also worry-free. Out of the guilt of losing his mother at an early age, Ah Bing, who was extremely doted on by his father in his childhood and adolescence, gradually let Ah Bing develop a wayward and arrogant personality, which also laid the groundwork for his tragic fate in the future.
In 1918, at the age of 25, Ah Bing was once again devastated by fate, and after his father died of illness, Ah Bing instantly became a lonely man without relatives, and his spiritual pillar was ruthlessly pushed down by fate, and since then, he has become self-destructive.
In order to escape from reality, Ah Bing, after the age of 25, lived a life of "prodigal son" and began to frequently enter and exit the big smoke house and kiln, it seems that only by indulging in eroticism and constantly paralyzing himself can he hide his inner pain.
This way of life eventually brought severe punishment to Ah Ping.
A few years later, Because of his long-term indulgence and smoking of large cigarettes, Ah Bing was completely blind in his right eye and semi-blind in his left eye. When the people in the Lei Zun Hall knew that Ah Bing had become a "wasted man", they ruthlessly expelled him from the Taoist Temple.
Living on the street, Ah Bing, the money he had accumulated before was squandered by him, and he fell ill, in desperation, he could only the familiar erhu, chose to sell art on the street for a living, and an erhu became the only link between him and the world.
After becoming a "wandering artist", Erhu became his only hope for survival. By pulling erhu day after day on the street, his gradually abandoned musical talent was once again revitalized, laying a solid foundation for him to create the world-famous song "Erquan Yingyue" in the future.
Because of Ah Bing's extremely high musical talent, when he pulls the erhu, he often comes to his hands and improvises, and each erhu seems to be an indictment of his own life and fate.
A few years later, under the guidance of the clan, Ah Bing married a widow named Dong Xundi, and with the care of his wife, he felt the warmth of life and had the heart to spend more energy on music creation. In the 20 years from the age of 36 to his death, Ah Bing composed more than 200 folk songs, including the world-famous erhu song "Erquan Yingyue" and the famous pipa song "Big Wave Taosha", which wrote a brilliant chapter for Chinese music in the 20th century.
In early December 1950, Ah Bing died of hunger and cold at the age of 57. Although his life has ended, the famous songs he left to the world have not ended, and these famous songs have constantly burst out new spiritual forces under the interpretation of musicians and music lovers around the world, cultivating the hearts of generations of people.
In many pieces of music, Ah Bingdu has integrated the care for the world, the thinking of life, the integration of national music, the expression of feelings for home and country, plus the suffering he suffered is somewhat similar to Beethoven, and his artistic achievements are also very high, so many people are willing to regard him as "China's Beethoven".