The three of them walked to the courtyard with Xiao Yao, he pretended to take out the flowing water flying red qin from the trunk, and walked into the octagonal pavilion by the pond with this guqin in his hand.

Sitting in front of the guqin, Xiao Yao asked, "Does Uncle Fang have any special repertoire you want to hear?"

"Feel free to play as long as it's what you're good at. "Although Dad Fang likes guqin music, he doesn't have a particularly favorite repertoire.

"Today's weather is a little hot, why don't I play a song "Autumn Wind Words" for you, although it can't attract autumn breeze to everyone, but it can let you experience autumn. The so-called heart is calm and naturally cool, and the autumn surrounds the heart, or it can be cool and self-generated. ”

After Xiao Yao finished speaking, he stroked the strings, and the sound of tinkling and murmuring penetrated the summer heat and echoed in everyone's ears.

Each piece has its own characteristics and uniqueness, especially the ancient songs that have been handed down to this day, after several generations of music masters have been tempered and perfected.

"Autumn Wind Words" is no exception, although the composition is not long, but after several generations of revision, it has become one of the classic repertoire of guqin music.

Although "Autumn Wind Words" is a short song, it goes back and forth, and the meaning is short and long. There are many corresponding points for pressing and scattering, and beginners can also understand one of them relatively easily.

Yes, according to the classification of the technique of playing the guqin, this autumn wind song is just an introductory track to the guqin, even a beginner of the guqin can easily play this song.

However, the simpler the repertoire, the more difficult it is to play the essence of it.

Beginners can only strive for technical perfection, and if they neglect the piece because it is short and simple, they will never be able to play the true meaning of the piece.

Although this piece is a small song, it is rich in content and emotional, and its melody is smooth and tactful, and the song is lingering in resentment.

This simple song uses the technique of looping back and forth to describe infinite lovesickness and love.

For this simple classic repertoire, Fang's father, an amateur of guqin music, is naturally very familiar.

"Autumn Wind Words" is one of the famous songs in the guqin music, and the score is from the "Mei'an Qin Score" in the early years of the Republic of China.

It was passed on by Wang Binlu of the Zhucheng faction in Shandong, and later compiled by his disciples Xu Zhuo and Shao Sen, and the first edition was published in 1931.

"Autumn Wind Words" is small in style and has words:

The autumn breeze is clear, the autumn moon is bright, the fallen leaves gather and disperse, and the jackdaws are frightened.

Lovesick and embarrassed at this night!

Enter my lovesick door, know that I am lovesick, long-term lovesickness, long-term lovesickness, short-term lovesickness is infinite, I knew that it was so stumbling, how could I not know each other at the beginning.

The first half of this poem is the "Autumn Wind Words" written by the great poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, and the second half of the words are added after this poem is accompanied by the qin song, which is similar to a passage in "The Resentment of the Hunan Concubine".

People who don't understand guqin music may wonder, why is there such a dug for a simple song?

The reason why beginners mostly play some small songs with lyrics is because it can help us better understand the meaning of the music.

With the lyrics, the meaning of the song is easier for beginners to understand, so that the fingering can be better controlled, and the meaning of the song can be expressed in the appropriate technique as much as possible.

At the same time, you can feel that the qin music is based on sentences, rather than simply in bars, which is also a very characteristic point of qin music.

At the beginning, because of his familiarity with this song, Dad Fang could still compare it with the lyrics and music scores in his impression.

But with Xiao Yao's performance, unconsciously, Father Fang had already forgotten the words in his impression, and his consciousness could no longer accommodate other thoughts except for the ethereal and melodious sound of the piano.

As the music played, he seemed to be in the cool autumn breeze, and seemed to see the bright autumn moon, the fallen leaves and the jackdaws perched on the branches.

But these scenes do not bring out a desolate atmosphere, but gloomy and faint grievances.

This feeling seems to be different from the artistic conception of the original song, but it is even better.

The original song and lyrics are typical of the work of the sad autumn nostalgia.

The lyrics and songs complement each other, and the description of the late autumn scenery vividly sets off the sad atmosphere.

This kind of description and contrast, coupled with the beautiful imagination and perfect portrayal of the accompanying words, makes the whole piece seem sad and distant, and the grievances are like complaints.

Father Fang once heard a master play this piece, this master's exquisite skills can make people feel the pain of lovesickness from the words to helplessness, and can also make people feel the lovesickness from the chanting to infinity.

The performance of that master is still fresh in his memory.

But Xiao Yao's interpretation of this piece is obviously better.

After his arrangement, the technique of playing this piece has maintained its original level, but its concept has been greatly improved.

After listening to the performance of this piece, what was left in Fang's father's heart was only infinite regret and a faint grievance for the late autumn.

Although this feeling cannot be unforgettable, it has long been haunting in my heart unconsciously, and it is difficult to get rid of it.

The sound of the piano stopped for a long time, and the three onlookers were relieved from their faint grievances.

Fang's father felt the deepest, and couldn't help but comment: "I have listened to the live performance of many guqin masters, originally I thought that the highest skill of the guqin is nothing more than that, but after listening to your performance, I realized that I was just the frog sitting in the well and watching the sky, trapped in the well without knowing it, and thinking that I saw the whole sky."

Only at this moment did I know that the real top-level guqin performance was so unforgettable. If it weren't for the real experience of this moment, I would never have thought that a guqin song could manipulate the hearts of the audience, which is really amazing!"

"You have won the award, my attainments in the guqin are indeed higher, but they are not up to the level you said. Xiao Yao at this moment is modest.

Fang's mother also said: "You are too modest, what Lao Fang said is not an exaggeration at all, I have listened to several guqin recitals with Lao Fang, the skills of those master performers are indeed admirable, their performances have gone beyond the scope of skills, if you experience it with your heart, it will be emotionally touched."

Originally, I thought that this was already the highest level of performance, but after listening to your performance, I realized that this level is still far from it.

Your performance can easily make people fall into addiction, and even manipulate people's minds, such a state of performance, if you don't hear it with your own ears, it's unimaginable. Compared with your performance, it will be emotionally touched by feeling it with your heart, and it is no longer worth mentioning, and there is a judgment between the two.

You really don't have to be humble, you deserve such praise. Fang's mother said very seriously, looking at Xiao Yao's gaze, as if admiring a priceless treasure.

If Father Fang's heart is the deepest, then the person who is most shocked must be Fang Suxi.

Although he doesn't know much about guqin music, she is a professional musician after all. Although the external form of the instrument is different, and the playing technique is also different, the expression of the music is the same.

After listening to this song, Fang Suxi felt that her soul seemed to have been baptized, and she seemed to see another door in the music world, as long as she stepped into this door, then it would be another world.

Xiao Yao is already a member of the new world, and he can roam freely in this new world. Although Fang Suxi was not enough to enter this new world, she was fortunate to see the charming scene in this new world.

Her position at this time is still extremely far away from this new world, and the distance will not discourage her, because she has found her goal, as long as she has a goal, and persistently walks towards the goal, no matter how far away she will eventually reach the day.

Fang Suxi's clear eyes had been staring at Xiao Yao's cheeks obsessively, she didn't say anything, but the undisguised obsession in her eyes had already completely exposed what she was thinking at this time.

played a song "Autumn Wind Words", Xiao Yao's interest was even higher, and he took the initiative to say: "The performance of "Autumn Wind Words" is relatively simple, I will play a song "Gulls and Herons Forget the Machine" for everyone. ”

Fang Suxi has never heard this guqin song, but she has a deep understanding of the word "gulls and herons".

The word gulls and herons forget the machine comes from "Liezi Yellow Emperor Chapter", in which "The Good Gulls and Birds" tells such a fable: "The people on the sea have good gulls and birds, and every day on the sea, from the gulls and birds swim, and the gulls and birds live for a hundred times." His father said: 'I heard that the gulls and birds all swim from you, and you take them, and I play with them'. On the sea of tomorrow, gulls and birds will not fall. ”

The two idioms "the gull forgets the machine" and "the gull does not fall" are derived from this fable.

The realm of the gulls and herons forgetting the machine is respected by literati and Taoists.

The literati believed that if a person can forget the machine, the bird will not doubt, and when the man and the machine move, the bird will stay away.

Taoists believe that the form can be deceived, but the god cannot be deceived. My god moves slightly, and his god knows. It is a saint who is with all things, and often has no intention to accompany him, which is a forgot.

Pei Songzhi's note "Romance of the Three Kingdoms: The Biography of Gao Rou" said: "If the heart is cute, the gulls and birds will not fall." ”

Xin Qiji's "Water Tune Song Tou and Wang Zhengzhi's Right Division Wujiang Guanxue See Mail" said: "Immortals, gulls and birds, two forget the machine." ”

It can be seen how highly respected the realm of gulls and herons is forgetful.

After listening to Xiao Yao's words, the happiest thing is Fang's father, one of his personal favorite guqin songs is "Gull and Heron Forget the Machine", he didn't expect Xiao Yao to play this guqin song, and he was looking forward to it.

The guqin song "Gulu Forgets the Machine" is a long-standing guqin song, which is said to have been composed by Liu Zhifang in the Song Dynasty.

The literature that can be found now can be traced back to the earliest time in the "Magical Secret Score" compiled by Zhu Quan in the Ming Dynasty.

The piece consists of two sections and an overtone finale, and is not very difficult to play, and is now classified as a grade 5 repertoire.

With the continuation of time, this piece has also changed a lot in history, and since the Ming and Qing dynasties, "Gull and Heron Forget the Machine" is a rather exquisite guqin lyrical sketch. Its artistic conception is far-reaching, the meaning of the song is timeless, the fingering is delicate, the philosophy is profound, and the more intriguing, the more highly cultivated people can appreciate the true meaning of this song, and the more they like this song.

It is difficult for beginners to experience the essence of this piece, but even if it is the skin that can appreciate the artistic conception, it is a great progress in soul and cultivation.

This is a piece of music that can cultivate sentiments, and if you are lucky enough to hear a well-cultivated guqin master play this piece, it is really a supreme enjoyment for the soul.

Dad Fang liked this piece so much that after the piano sounded, he had already abandoned all distractions and fully appreciated the artistic conception in this song.

"Gull and Heron Forget the Machine" through the bird's serene demeanor, showing the simplicity of the gull and heron forgetting the machine, this piece does not require high technique, but it is extremely difficult to play the essence of this piece.

Xiao Yao's performance technique has already been superb, every move is not constrained by the constraints of the technique, every movement has an indescribable harmonious rhythm, no matter who sees it, can appreciate the beauty of natural harmony.

The technique is just an appearance, and at the beginning, Fang Suxi will still be fascinated by his every move. But just a moment later, Fang Suxi's entire mind was already immersed in the realm created by the sound of the piano, and he had already forgotten everything around him.

The so-called "forgetting the machine" is actually to forget the scheming, forget all the distracting thoughts in the heart, and only retain the true self and self in the heart.

Taoist culture advocates that people should respect and conform to nature, rather than destroying nature, remove distractions in their hearts, and only retain a pure heart in order to integrate into nature.

When you have that scheming to change something, you will find that everything around you seems to change with it, and the more eager you want to get it, the more you will often get nothing.

Conform to nature, conform to the timing, and grasp the timing, which is wisdom.