How did the blind A Bing die?

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1950 65438+On February 4th, A Bing died at the age of 57 and was buried in the Taoist tomb at the foot of Canshan Mountain in the western suburbs of Wuxi.

1983 moved to the present site south of Er Quan at the eastern foot of Huishan. The cemetery covers an area of 742 square meters, and the main body consists of a tomb wall and a wing wall, which looks like a music station; The old tombstone is now in the museum of this city. The colored tombstone was established by China Music Research Institute and Wuxi Federation of Literary and Art Circles, written by Yang, and the bronze statue of the blind man in front of the tomb was carved.

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1893 Aug 17 (19th year of Guangxu) A Bing was born in Yihe Mountain Residence next to Leizun Temple in Wuxi. Hua lost his mother at the age of 4 and was raised by his aunt. 19 18, after his father died, he continued to be the Taoist priest of Leizuntang. Later, Hua began to smoke opium and engage in prostitution because of careless friends. Later, because of blindness due to eye diseases, he could not participate in legal work, so he made a living by busking.

1On April 23rd, 949, Wuxi was liberated, and A Bing and his music "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" were reborn. /kloc-in the summer of 0/950, in order to explore, study and preserve folk music, the teachers and students of the Central Conservatory of Music entrusted Professor Yang and others to make a special trip to Wuxi to record three erhu songs, Tingsong, Cold, Big Waves for Sand, Dragon Boat and Zhaojun's Embarkation.

A Bing's most used musical instruments are still the mahogany huqin handed down from his family and the music he often plays. It is also the music as gentle, bitter, elegant, resentful, quiet and uneasy as the bright moon at night, which symbolizes the fate of his life.

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