Liu Xing, a well-deserved master of local music in China, will be unfamiliar to most people, because he rarely appears in the media, and there is almost no hype. He is so low-key that he can't even find a complete full-length photo on the Internet. What he can find from Baidu is only his basic situation: he was born in 1962, and his native place is unknown, 1982. As a pioneer and leader of China's new era music, Liu Xing seems to have lived a peaceful life. His personality is as mysterious as his music, and the world praises him as a "hermit of contemporary music in China".
Shallow, I always thought that the new age music was the patent of foreigners. Tonight, I was lucky enough to get in touch with Liu Xing's amazing work "Lonely Crane in the Cloud" and was immediately conquered by his style of combining Chinese and Western. In my opinion, the new-age music represented by Yani, Bandari and Mystery Garden in the west is only situational music at best, while the new-age music represented by Liu Xing in China is full of modern flavor in orchestration and other forms, and inherits the essence of China traditional music in connotation, which is far-reaching artistic conception music.
In Liu Xing's Lonely Crane in Idle Clouds, the band as the background melody sets off the verdant Shan Lan sky and endless blue sky and white clouds, while zhongruan as the main melody melody, inadvertently stirring, outlines a lonely white crane, a poetic picture of a wild crane in idle clouds and cranes dancing for shadows.
In Liu Xing's Lonely Crane in Idle Clouds, every note is saturated with silence and meditation. When you listen, you will close your eyes and daydream, and then you will see a scene of a heartbroken person at the end of the world at sunset. It's too cold at the top, even if the sky is high and the clouds are light, it's hard to fill this feeling of loneliness.
Liu Xing himself interpreted his songs as follows: What life can give you is to make your life full of fantasy. Loneliness and loss are the fuel of life, and pain and happiness are the feelings of time. I can't hear the roar of the distant mountains, but the leisure in front of me is everywhere. It's hard to say that my sorrow is not human sorrow.
However, tonight, I have listened to this song "Lonely Crane in the Cloud" for countless times. It feels as light as a swan, and flying over Qian Shan is like an awakening. The place where Liu Xing played is a simple piece of music, which is obviously a practice method, guiding me to transcend the secular and the three realms without understanding Buddhism.
Master Rurui once said: To learn Buddhism is to do subtraction, and to practice is to learn to do subtraction. In the first half of my life, you and I worked hard for addition every day. With the growth of experience, the accumulation of wealth and the promotion of the workplace, illness and pain are followed after middle age.
Wake up, people who step into the second half of their lives should learn to subtract from your life. What you lose is endless greed, unreasonable anger and meaningless delusion that you were obsessed with when you were young. ......