Spring Blossoms on a Moonlit River 春江花月夜

Performed by the China Central Chinese Orchestra at the Golden Hall of Vienna.

A forgotten ancient tune, the manuscript was rediscovered in a music book published in 1820.

Arranged for orchestra by Peng Xiu Wen during 1960s.

It was a major theme of the 2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony.

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[angelqueen9989]

I thought I recognized this song! Its from the olympics in Beijing! Its sounds pretty!

[Silmarunya]

It never ceases to amaze me how amazing China's classical music and culture in general is. This music can stand on equal footage with the greatest European classics, and many Chinese music actually predates these western classics by a long time.

It's amazing how music that sounds so sharp and even crude on first hearing turns out to be so deep and rich...

[ARGONNE777]

Argonne777 (Cont'd).......

---then to consider, that simplicity, elegance and harmony are goals as valid as many layers of detailed

complexity. Neither is "correct": Each is a 'style.' Each is

a culture.

Then, -one Cultivates the virtues of simplicity,

elegance and harmony: One could Even be Invited

to Tea!

The music is beautiful.

"Never the twain shall meet" is no longer true!

[ARGONNE777]

It is a shock to educated Westerners, to realize that the elegant simplicity of a branch of

bamboo with a few leaves, drawn by a master, in

an ink drawing, is the simpelest, most elegant

representation possible.

100 layers of detailed western complexity would

not better express the representation.

.......We then can understand the writing, the

architechure, even the history......

We waited 50 years to know this....

[MrChenone13]

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[postwar46]

a swathe of musical sound, without time, encompassing all the great land of China and it's people: Crafted skill, and unique presence created through those instruments, by a gracious gentle musicians.

[thekingofmoney2000]

@Silmarunya Trypicsal westerner...what makes you think that people in Asia have to think European classical music is so great? Why would western music be automatically superior to Chinese, Asian or any other regions music? Crude? Well, maybe to you! Stop being so ethnocentric, the world does not revolve around Europe! Chinese culture and music predated any classical western music!

[thekingofmoney2000]

There is nothing "crude" about it!

[muzixiang]

@angelqueen9989 yes you are right this is the background music played in part of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.

[jcchoy]

Thank you wangjianruc for provided me with the name 曾格格. Western trained in piano, I never come to appreciate our own culture and music. It is so rich and beautiful in many ways which westerners always written off as only pentatonic only 5 notes compared to 12 notes scale.