Details of A Bing.

The original name is Hua, which is his nickname. Born in July 1893, died in February 1950. When A Bing was in his twenties, he suffered from eye diseases and his father died. He was poor and ill, his eye diseases worsened, and his eyes went blind one after another. From then on, people called him blind A Bing.

I studied music with my father Hua since childhood. Chinese Taoist priests are recognized as wizards in the local Taoist music scene. A Bing's musical achievements were originally based on Taoist music and family heirlooms. Taoist music is mostly non-religious folk music, and many of them are unchanging folk songs. After A Bing's eyes changed, he was not welcomed by the rich vegetarian, so he had to leave this door and start singing for a living. In Wuxi, a person wearing sunglasses, with sheng, flute, pipa and other musical instruments hanging on his chest and back, and a huqin in his hand, is A Bing.

A Bing lives purely by singing. He never seemed to beg for mercy. He struggled in darkness and poverty for decades. His feelings about the painful life are reflected in his music, not because of the hardships and hardships of life. On the contrary, his music reveals a healthy and deep breath from the bottom of the people. A Bing condensed his life into immortal works, such as Two Springs Reflecting the Moon. After liberation, when the people's government sent people to care about him and arrange his music works, he couldn't get what he wanted and suddenly vomited blood and died.

A Bing left behind three erhu works, such as Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to the Pine and the Cold Spring Breeze, and three pipa works, such as Big Waves to Wash the Sand, Dragon Boat, and Zhaojun Out of the Plug. Among them, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" won the 20th Century Chinese Classical Music Award.

Two Springs Reflecting the Moon: Wuxi Huishan Er Quan enjoys the reputation of "the second spring in the world" and is a place that A Bing often goes to. He didn't play the song "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" until he was blind. This song described the beautiful scenery he witnessed in the old society with the image of music, but what he felt at that time was darkness, which made him always reveal a sad mood in the melodious melody.

Listening to music: Music describes the story of Yue Fei, a great patriotic general in Song Dynasty, who led the volunteer staff sergeant in the Great Patriotic War. In the middle of this song, A Bing pinned his feelings for War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory. Music has a distinct and strong personality, and the introduction is broad and grand. The first, second and third paragraphs are full of extraordinary artistic conception and structure, which successfully express the courage of struggle and the assurance of victory. A Bing used the old and middle strings on the erhu, and the timbre was particularly strong.

Cold Spring Breeze: This is another erhu song by A Bing. I said it was the lost Sanskrit of Taoism, and the result of Mr. Yang's research was his own work. From the title of the song, it describes the cold wind blowing in spring, and from the music itself, people feel the heavy sigh of depression and the infinite yearning for light.

Big waves wash sand: According to A Bing before his death, this piece was originally an ensemble of Taoist Sanskrit, and he played it on the pipa, adding pipa skills. This song was recorded by Mr. Yang, Mr. Cao An and Mr. Cao An. This piece of music has a compact structure and is divided into three parts. The musical mood developed from deep sadness to liveliness and strength, and finally ended with optimistic and confident music.

Dragon Boat: Originally a popular pipa tune. The performance of pipa in the music is to imitate the drums and songs on the dragon boat during the Dragon Boat Festival folk competition. At the beginning is a model drum, and in the middle is a drama fragment. Each paragraph is a folk song or instrumental tune, and there is a part that imitates the Luo drum between paragraphs.

Zhao Jun went out to the fortress: This is a pipa music handed down by his father Hua, which is not similar to Zhao Jun's resentment and Song of the fortress.

(1893- 1950): Formerly known as Hua, a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu, a folk musician.

1893 Aug 17 A Bing was born in Yihe Mountain Residence next to Leizun Temple in Wuxi. His father Hua Qinghe (no. Xue Mei) is a Taoist in the Leizun Hall of Xudong Palace in Wuxi. His mother Qin was born in a peasant family and married to the Qin family. Shortly after the marriage, she became a widow, and her marriage with Huaqing River was reviled by her people. She died a year after she was born in A Bing. When A Bing was born, he was sent by his father to his hometown in Xiaosifang Lane, Dongting Town, Wuxi County, and was raised by his family. After he was eight years old, he was taken back to Taoist Temple, where he was given the scientific name of Hua and posthumous title, and sent to a private school to study.

Hua is proficient in all kinds of musical instruments and Taoist music. A Bing showed a rare talent for music when he was young. At the age of 65,438+00, his father taught him to beat stones to resist the cold and practice various rhythms (and later became a famous local drummer). /kloc-at the age of 0/2, A Bing began to learn to play the flute. His father often asked him to blow at the tuyere and hang an iron ring at the end of the flute to strengthen his wrist. Later, he simply replaced the iron ring with a weight. When A Bing studied erhu, he worked harder. His strings were dyed red with blood and his fingers were pulled out of thick cocoons. The outer strings of A Bing's erhu are much thicker than ordinary ones, which is inseparable from his perennial practice. /kloc-at the age of 0/7, A Bing officially participated in Taoist music performance. He is handsome and has a good voice. He is called "Little Shi Tian".

19 14, Hua died and became the Taoist priest in charge of Leizun Temple, taking turns to take charge of the incense income of Leizun Temple with his cousin Hua Boyang. Later, due to poor management, A Bing got into bad habits again, and his life gradually fell into poverty. At the age of 34, he went blind one after another, and was forced by life to wander the streets and make a living by performing arts. 1939, A Bing married Dong Caidi, a rural widow in Jiangyin.

1950 In the summer, Professor Yang and Professor Cao Anhe from the Central Conservatory of Music made a special trip to Wuxi to play a recording. By this time, A Bing had completely given up music for three years. After three days' practice, he recorded it twice, leaving three erhu works, namely, Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Listening to Pine, Cold Spring Breeze, Big Waves Wasting the Sand, Dragon Boat and Zhaojun. Later, "Two Springs Reflecting the Moon" and "Big Waves Wasting Sand" won the 20th Century Chinese Classical Music Award.

1950 In September, the Department of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory of Music planned to hire A Bing, but he was seriously ill at that time and could not apply. He died on February 4, 2008 19565438 and was buried in the "Yihe Shanfang" cemetery at the foot of the western suburbs of Wuxi. His wife Dong Caidi passed away on March 27th. 195 1.

A Bing's achievements in music have gone far beyond the barriers of family inheritance. He has learned from others and absorbed many skills, and reflected all his feelings about the painful life through music. His music works are permeated with the essence of traditional music, revealing a healthy and deep breath from the bottom of the people, sincere, gripping and full of strong artistic appeal.