Who is Shutong Li?
He is a shooting star of modern art education, crossing the starry night, and it is brilliant today.
He laid the foundation for Chinese drama art and starred in the first Western drama "La Traviata".
He enlightened modern music, the first to compose music in staves.
He was a pioneer in the art of oil painting, the first painter to use a mannequin.
Who is Master Koichi?
He was the eleventh patriarch of the Vinaya and is a recognized master of Buddhism.
Master Hongyi, also known as Li Shutong, is a talented man and a monk of water clouds.
Most of his masterpieces such as "Farewell", "West Lake", and "Spring Scene" were later included in Feng Zikai's "Li Shutong Song Collection".
Throughout the ages, there are so many poems describing parting, but they are not as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people as Li Shutong's "Farewell".
This "Farewell" was created in 1914, almost everyone in China knows, no one knows, the language is condensed, and the artistic conception is profound, although the farewell feeling is strong, but in the peace and cold silence, it is a mixture of feelings.
"Farewell"
Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the grass is green.
The evening wind blows the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountain.
The end of the sky, the corner of the earth, the knowledge of the half-scattered.
A pot of turbid wine is all over the place, don't dream cold tonight.
Ask the jun when to come here, and when he comes, don't linger.
Life is rare to have a happy gathering, but there is no separation.
A song "Farewell" is cool and distant, thick and melodious, singing the vicissitudes of the world, I walked the ancient way, there were few peers, I looked back, half a life withered, was sung by the Chinese for a hundred years, enduring. This song has been interpreted by countless musicians and movies, all of which touch people's heartstrings, and is a perfect combination of music and text.
The lyrics seem to be popular and straightforward, it seems that everyone can understand it, but the meaning is long, but only after experiencing some people and things, can you really listen to the meaning of the song.
To this day, it can still arouse people's feelings of the past, the past has gone, and the remembrance will fade one day! However, the legend of his life will never fade.
This former playboy, in the turmoil of his home country, the shattering of mountains and rivers, the helplessness of the literati who is deep in his bones and blood, and the disgust with the world that he has born, as well as those long pavilions, ancient roads, sunsets, flutes, evening winds, parting... To savor it is to see through and let go of the impermanence of the world of the baba.
When people were confronted with this great mage who was "full of flowers and branches, full of heavenly heart and full moon", perfect and round, and then suddenly read "Farewell", they couldn't help but marvel at what kind of mentality could write such a silent and peaceful text.
There are recommended books to read:
Hongyi Master Li Shutong's "Evening Qing Collection": The answer to the legendary life, all in these 101 aphorisms
From Li Shutong to Master Hongyi: a song "Farewell" reads Qingqiu