Happy Friday everyone,
Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is the 220th episode — Great blue.
This improvisation on solo guzheng was recorded yesterday inspired by a great blue heron (photo below) that I share a forest with.
It made me think of a poem by Ms. Li Qingzhao 李清照 (1084 -1155) from the Song Dynasty.
There is an English translation I found here by Xu Zhongjie 徐忠杰 .
Rumengling
I often recall the brookside pavilion,
Where I was detained against the waning day.
I was so drunk that I couldn't know my way home.
But I had all the fun. Indeed, I was gay.
All the pleasure spent, I managed to return.
I plunged deep among water-lilies my sculls.
I struggled and struggled out of the tangle.
I thus alarmed a beach of herons and gulls.
The poem in Chinese:
《如梦令·常记溪亭日暮》
宋朝：李清照
常记溪亭日暮，沉浸不知归路。
兴尽晚回舟，误入藕花深处。
争渡，争渡，惊起一滩鸥鹭。
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