Happy Monday everyone,
Thank you for subscribing to Wu Fei’s Music Daily. This is episode #343 — The brilliant hibiscus 涉江采芙蓉.
This piece was created and recorded yesterday. I recorded the guzheng track first, then I improvised the singing over the guzheng track. The lyrics are from a poem from the East Han Dynasty (207 BC - 220 CE): 涉江采芙蓉 (“Crossing the river to pick hibiscus”).
I found a translation of the poem here from 古詩十九首 (Nineteen Old Poems).
涉江采芙蓉
I cross the river to pick hibiscus,
-蘭澤多芳草
the brilliant orchid and the many fragrant herbs.
-采之欲遺誰
I pick it and desire to give it to someone,
-所思在遠道
but the one whom I think of is journeying far away.
-還顧望舊鄉
I still gaze at the old countryside,
-長路漫浩浩
the long road and its vast expanse.
-同心而離居
We are of one mind yet live apart,
-憂傷以終老
and in the end I grow old, wounded by grief.
Wu Fei 吴非
Wufeimusic.com
I was in a safari in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa in 2010.
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