I can’t remember the first time I listened to "Erquan Yingyue". It should be when I was very young.
I only remember that when I was a child, there was a shabby radio at home. When it was late at night, my mother would hold the soles of her family under the kerosene lamp, and turn on the radio to listen to the program.
I am lying in the quilt and like to listen to radio shows on the radio. It was then that I heard the radio drama "Erquan Yingyue", and the solo of the erhu will now appear from the depths of my memory.
At that time, I was young and couldn't understand the sadness and struggle of life expressed in music. I just felt that it was tortuous and twists and turns, and often when I woke up in the middle of the night, I could still see my mother still doing needlework.
I didn’t know what the song was like when I first listened to it, but I was already a person in the song.
Now I am, from middle-aged, from the shiny boy to the greasy uncle, from the swearing to the change of the world to the current society's edges and corners, and go with the flow, just to protect myself and get ashore safely.
Due to the impact of the epidemic in recent years, we have slowed down the pace of life, especially when we were locked up at home during this period and listened to a lot of classic music. Listening to "Erquan Yingyue" again, I feel that my soul has been baptized again!
A Bing's sad life reflects the current life of the Chinese at the bottom of the old society. His father was a Taoist priest, and he lived with a widow and gave birth to A Bing. His mother died early. When A Bing was 26 years old, he admitted that he was his father before his father died. A Bing's early years were destroyed by feudal ethics. Later, his slutty life caused him to be addicted to drugs and flower and willow diseases, resulting in his life losing his source of income, his body was destroyed, and his eyes were blind. Forced by life, A Bing wandered on the streets and became an artist who relied on erhu laqu. During this period, he tasted all the intrigues of society, his human feelings, and his worldly state. With many years of social experience and his proficient erhu skills, he created the classic national instrumental music "Erquan Yingyue".
"Erquan Yingyue" is a song written by A Bing to himself. It is the lonely mark of his life in the desolate world. It is his lonely heart song, and it is his arrogance.
The sad melody, sad experience, I listened repeatedly again and again, and every note was slowly engraved into every inch of the skin, overlapping with the blood, making me unable to tell whether the music saddled me or my sadness made the music look even more desolate.
Western critics call this song "The Symphony of Destiny of the East" and compare A Bing with Beethoven. I think it is the best praise for A Bing.
music is indeed poignant, the historical background formed by "Erquan Yingyue" should not be forgotten. A Bing and we are two centuries of people. We can only understand the bumpy experiences of his era through film and television dramas, documentaries and historical relics, but it is difficult to experience them personally.
Our era is in a new era of prosperity in the country, well-being of the people, and rejuvenation of the nation. Perhaps, China, which has emerged from suffering, will never return to the old era of poverty and weakness, but the history of suffering of modern Chinese people must not be forgotten.
History will not repeat itself, but history should not be forgotten!