Yuan Sha's guzheng performance "Lin Chong Night Run"
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"Lin Chong Night Run" is based on the well-known Chinese classic literature "Water Margin". The author relies on the library of Kunqu opera music such as "New Water Ling" and "Yan Er Luo", and uses a deeper way of thinking to describe the national charm. , pushing the nationalization of the foreign musical instrument dulcimer to a new height.


The work adopts the traditional Chinese musical form of "starting, inheriting, turning, and closing", with a library-section structure. It depicts the story of Lin Chong, the leopard head, who fled to Liangshan on a snowy night after being persecuted by the government in "Water Margin". The music is like the "Martial Arts" in the traditional pipa repertoire. 's masterpiece. The music is divided into four sections, Adagio, Night Run, Wind and Snow, and Uphill. It describes Lin Chong's mixed state of mind in "Water Margin" when he "concentrates on throwing in the Water Margin and looking back at the Heavenly Dynasty".

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Yuan Sha, a Chinese guzheng performing artist, has funded and trained dozens of disabled and impoverished students over the years, enabling them to embark on the road of guzheng art and become self-reliant, cultivate nearly 2,000 guzheng education talents, and hold special guzheng music performances at home and abroad. Nearly 200 conferences and lectures have been held, and dozens of textbooks and CD-ROMs have been published, which has made great contributions to the promotion and popularization of guzheng art.
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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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