Chinese Music Guqin Wang Fei 流水-王菲古琴-NAGA Events Review 北美琴社活动

This is a slide show of North American Guqin Aossoication's events review.
Background music Liu Shui Flowing Water played by Wang Fei, director of the North American Guqin Association.
This piece is more than 700 years old, and is perhaps the most famous Chinese classical composition. The story behind it concerns the scholar Yu Boya and his friend the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi. The guqin music played by Yu Boya was as grand as the high mountains and as lively as flowing water, but only Zhong Ziqi could perceive this in his music. As a result of this mutual appreciation they became very close friends. When Zhong Ziqi died, Yu Boya destroyed his guqin and vowed never to play again, because he felt nobody else could understand his music. This is the origin of the Chinese expression zhi yin -- "knowing the sound", which means a confidant or soulmate.
The version played by Wang Fei is the same as that included on the gold CD to represent Chinese music, sent into space by NASA in 1977.

NAGA was founded in 1997 by Wang Fei, an internationally known guqin player. Its mission is to promote aspects of Chinese culture through the traditional art of the guqin and to build a bridge for cultural exchange and mutual understanding between the Chinese and American communities. In the last ten years NAGA has grown in membership and has increased the number of programs it offers to the public. It invites guest presenters and performers to its events as a way of expanding its mission of bringing Chinese cultural heritage to local communities.
For more information about NAGA and Guqin, please visit http://www.guqin.org

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[ArseneGray]

because it is beautiful...but you shouldn't disgust your own culture anyway...

[namitsu1]

@jimineycricket84 it feels like we lost something in the west that is preserved in these songs and indeed cultures.

[ccrich100]

If you decide on the chinese martial arts you may want to consider Chen Style Tai-Chi and/or PaKua(Ba Gua Zhang). They are both considered "internal martial arts" and from the Taoist line of chinese culture.

[ccrich100]

Maybe you lived your past life in the Orient and things oriental awakens those dim memories in your subconsciousness. The subconsciousness houses all of our past experiences...even those of lives long lived.

[258742562]

古琴 配漢服《非偽唐裝，馬褂》 在點上香爐 泡上清茶 泛舟于湖面 彈奏一曲 妙哉妙哉

[avivagabriel]

This playing is so full of subtle effects, with nice dynamic shifts. I can't say more, since I have no knowledge of guqin music with which to make any distinctions (other than instinctual ones), and I have no language to express anything that would be meaningful to a qin player. All I can say is: Wow! I'm enjoying!

[rural182]

Dude i fell so much peace and freedom, i love the oriental culture, it's amazing..

[fenrisulfr88]

the song was one Encarta 2000

it's awesome

[Tlupatak]

真是好聽~不錯~我覺得義大利的國歌很特別.而且我也會唱唷~哈­哈

[liuwenjie6678]

好像现今会弹古琴的人已经屈指可数了。。。