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[Phoenix PEN] Founder: Feelings of Autumn

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[Phoenix PEN] Founder: Feelings of Autumn Phoenix Founder The beginning of autumn has suddenly turned cold, and the solar terms of our ancestors are incredibly accurate! Autumn is always...

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[Phoenix PEN] Fang Zheng: Feelings about Autumn Phoenix City Fang Zheng It’s the beginning of autumn, the weather has suddenly turned cold, and the solar terms of our ancestors are so accurate that it’s incredible! Autumn is always related to sadness. The water of Autumn Lake is so beautiful that people sigh, the fallen leaves in autumn make people sad, and the sunset in autumn makes people reluctant to leave. "The setting clouds and solitary swans fly together, and the autumn water forms the same color as the sky." These two famous lines by Wang Bo are the most exquisite descriptions of autumn scenery by literati. Autumn has nothing to do with the moon. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, friends gather together to enjoy the moon, sing songs over tea, eat small moon cakes in their hands, and stare innocently at the big moon cake in the sky. I want to ride the wind and go away, but I am afraid that the beautiful buildings and jade buildings will dance to clear the shadows. It is too cold at high places. Ice beauty Chang'e, why do you have to go to the moon, a place where birds do not lay eggs? Moon, daddy, sitting in the belly (inside), daddy comes out to buy vegetables, meets grandma, grandma comes out to embroider, embroider glutinous rice cake, glutinous rice cake falls into the well, turns into a toad, the toad stretches its legs, turns into a magpie, magpie climbs the tree, turns into a turtle dove, the turtle dove coos, the monk eats tofu, A piece of tofu is crumbs, the monk is eating a piece of cake, a piece of rice cake is a piece of shell, the monk is eating water chestnuts, the water chestnuts are sharp, the monk is looking at the sky, there are four characters in the sky, the monk commits a crime, and he commits a crime again, he grabs the monk's head and chops it off. This is my favorite Hunan popular folk poem when I was a boy. Even my daughter can sing a few words. China was once a kingdom of poetry. During the Tang and Song dynasties, it reached its peak. There was only one moon in the sky and countless poets underground. Throughout the ages, countless literati have recited poems and composed poems, using moonlight as their theme and night as their scenery, creating countless immortal works that will last forever. Although the artistic languages ​​and forms have their own merits, the special liking for moonlight is a complex shared by artists both at home and abroad in ancient and modern times. The moonlight seems to have some kind of magical magic, allowing people's thoughts to roam freely under the cover of the night. The ups and downs of emotions are integrated into the fantasy of the moonlight, and masterpieces describing the moonlight and night flow out from the heart, which is dizzying and beautiful. There are many songs with the theme of moonlight, such as Debussy's Moonlight, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and Chopin's Nocturne. Speaking of night and moonlight in music, we cannot fail to mention the Polish piano poet – Chopin. Chopin (Fryderyk Fanciszek Chopin, 1810-1849) was born in Poland. He loved folk music since childhood and was extremely talented. He began composing music at the age of seven, performed on stage at the age of eight, and became a famous pianist and composer in Poland before he was twenty. Later, Poland fell. In more than a hundred years, Poland was divided three times by Russia, Prussia and the Austrian Empire. Chopin, who was unwilling to surrender, spent the rest of his life abroad and never returned to his beloved hometown. In the Chopin Park in Warsaw, there is still a statue of Chopin. His head was facing east, staring at the motherland, and he would not close his eyes until his death. When Chopin was in exile abroad, he created a large number of passionate and immortal piano works. Tsarist Russia once wanted to bribe him and grant him the title of [Chief Pianist of the Russian Empire], but Chopin sternly refused. In his later years, Chopin was homesick and lived a very painful and lonely life. He called himself a "son far away from his mother" and before his death, he asked his relatives to transport his heart back to the motherland for burial, thus ending the pain of homesickness for many years. Chopin wrote a total of 21 nocturnes in his life. The first one is exquisite, romantic and quiet, full of poetry and painting, and has a subtle fragrance that makes people put it down. Among them, the Nocturne in E major (Op. 9 No. 2), composed in 1830, is the most popular of all Chopin's nocturnes. It has the typical style of Chopin's early works, quiet, beautiful, carefully crafted, and as crystal clear as a crystal lantern. In the dead of night, everything is silent, wandering in Chopin's magical world of music, it turns out that the world of music can be so beautiful, so unfathomable! In the misty night mist, the silver-white moonlight slowly shines on the quiet lake, with sparkling waves and rippling evening wind. It's like drinking a pot of fine wine and getting drunk in the night moonlight. The night is quiet and frosty, the building is full of frost, and the dawn moon shines on the branches by the railing. Dream: Where to go when you wake up from a drunken state of mind? Willow fog, autumn cold, a little sad. Chopin's nocturne cleverly combines the Polish national music mazurkas, polonaises and waltzes, with a complex combination of decorative tones, chromatic scales, modulations and the rhythm of both hands, creating piano music full of beauty and purity, which greatly expands the expressiveness and vitality of piano timbre. Rubinstein once said: Chopin is the soul of the piano and the bard of the piano. Different from the descriptions of moonlight by previous masters, Debussy's "Moonlight" pays more attention to the real feeling and impression of moonlight. Together with his orchestral overture "Prelude to the Afternoon of the Faun", it pioneered Impressionism and became a classic of Impressionism. Moonlight was written in 1890 and is one of the piano suites "Bergamo Suite". "Moonlight" This piece is based on the impression of moonlight in the Bergamo region of northern Italy. It uses extremely colorful harmonies to describe the hazy night in the quiet lake, the reflection of the waves in the water, and the charming colors of the bright and colorful moonlight. It is a very accurate and emotional description. Unlike Beethoven and Chopin's romantic interpretation of moonlight, Debussy's moonlight world has no sharp contrasts and dramatic conflicts. It places great emphasis on harmony. It uses philosophical thoughts and realistic symbolic techniques to calmly feel the colors and natural rhythms of light and shadow, floating like a dream in the cool misty air under the moonlight. . . . . . 2013-09-28

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