Yuan was fascinated by the sound of guqin, and then began to study the history of guqin as if possessed. He said that he never thought about "seeking roots" in Taiwan Province Province before; On the contrary, when I came to new york, the world stage, I was particularly eager to find my own cultural source and build my own spiritual home.
It is said that Yanjing Library of Boston Harvard University has a large collection of China ancient books, and he made a special trip from new york to Harvard to find music scores. To his surprise, Yanjing Library has a large collection of guqin music. He asked for a copy, obtained the consent of the museum, photocopied two boxes of music such as Song Fengge and Dead Wood Zen, and happily shipped them back to new york.
Although he has a piano score, he doesn't have a piano yet. He practiced slowly with the fingering contained in the music. There are no symbols of rhythm, beat and speed in the music score. It is necessary to arrange and explain different music in complex fingering according to the performer's accomplishment and musical instruments in order to show everyone's feelings. "So, playing guqin is interesting and extremely difficult to play. It can be said that guqin is not only a musical instrument, but also a Taoist instrument. "
Accidentally obtained the fasting of Qingming, a famous piano.
The first guqin was actually the one restored by pianist Xu Wenjing in Amin's time. That is the image of dragon and phoenix, the shape of the ancients, simple in shape and pure and elegant in timbre. He clearly remembers that it was Tomb-Sweeping Day that day, and it rained in succession during the Qingming Festival. In the drizzle, he went to Kennedy International Airport to meet his classmates' plane, so he took the word "Qingming" as his call sign. Another meaning is to commemorate his father. On the eve of Yuan's going abroad, his lifelong Confucian father gave him eight characters: "Qingming is in the bow, and ambition is like a god".
"In those days, I took music as my teacher, groping bit by bit, and even lying in bed at night holding the piano, plucking the strings and sleeping, listening to my ears. There was a distant valley with Songtao audio-visual images in the piano, and I had my own world. However, the truly profound world of guqin has not yet begun. " Yuan decided to visit a famous teacher. He found a guqin player Sun in Taiwan Province, so he bowed down at his door.
Sun Xichan has been playing the piano for many years. One day, Sun played a Guqin playing tape as a teaching material, which included "Mei Hua San Nong" played by Guqin master Wu. "Sun Gong told me that Wu Shi's songs have a special rhythm and a different style. He is proud of his voice." From Sun's mouth, Yuan learned his name for the first time. 1987 Taiwan Province province lifted martial law and opened the mainland to visit relatives.
Because I've heard a lot about Wu, and my father instilled in their brothers the concepts of the motherland and China since childhood, I hope I won't forget my ancestors because of the classics. Far away in new york, he didn't inform his father. With a passion and impulse, he flew to Shanghai, China at the first stop, hoping to find a famous teacher to give directions and practice the piano.
Wu, a great master, studied under his father and Confucian pianist Wu since childhood. Dragon, however, had to learn from Wu Jinyang, a famous guqin master who gathered the strengths of various schools, and had a secret biography of Tai Chi master, which created a special piano road integrating Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong and Taoism.