Su Yitong's guzheng performance "The Fishing Boat Sings Evening"

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Su Yitong's guzheng performance "Fishing Boat Sings Evening" is from the album "Music: Guzheng - Su Yitong".

"The Fishing Boat Sings Evening" was adapted by Mr. Lou Shuhua in the mid-1930s based on the material of the ancient song "Civilization of Returning". The name of the song is taken from the poem "The Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" by Wang Bo, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: "The fishing boat sings late, and it sings on the shore of the poor Pengli". At the beginning of the music, with beautiful and elegant tunes and soothing rhythms, it depicts a picture of the setting sun reflecting the vast expanse of blue waves. Then, the theme of the music descends layer by layer and changes repeatedly, and the beautiful melody falls layer by layer with the convolution of the pentatonic scale to reflect the interest of "singing late". Finally, the melody of ascending first and descending descending is repeated many times, and the speed is gradually accelerated, showing the scene of white sails drifting with the current and fishing boats returning with a full load. This piece is the most widely circulated and most influential zheng solo piece in China since the 1930s.

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Su Yitong, a young Chinese guzheng player, founded the Beijing Guoyin Yaleqin Museum in 2012, and in 2013 established the "Zhonghua Zheng" Five-color String Orchestra.
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Guzheng (pinyin: Gǔ Zhēng), also known as Hanzheng and Qinzheng, is an ancient national musical instrument of the Han nationality and is popular all over China. It is often used for solo, duet, instrumental ensemble and accompaniment of song and dance, opera and folk art. Because of its wide range, beautiful timbre, rich playing skills and strong expressiveness, it is known as the "King of Music", also known as "Oriental Piano", and is one of the unique and important national musical instruments in China.

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