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38. Mountain Life
- Zhi mode, standard tuning: 5 6 1 2 3 5 6, but played as 1 2 4 5 6 1 2 2
山居吟
Shanju Yin 1
Shanju Yin, from Kuian Qinpu 3; see also a Bai Yunli painting
Shanju Yin was a very popular title, surviving in 46 handbooks to 1894. As with
Yu Hui Tushan, the version of Shanju Yin in Zheyin Shizi Qinpu (see also my CDs) is quite different, though it is also still attributed to Mao Minzhong (here: Mao Zhongweng).4

The scholar retiring from office and leading a leisurely life in nature is a constant theme in Chinese writing.

Besides the Zheyin version in Music Beyond Sound, recordings are available of Shanju Yin by Gong Yi, Liu Shaochun and Mei Yueqiang, all in the Guangling style (sources not given). They are very different from the present piece, but a relationship can still be found.

Zheyin also adds lyrics and titles to each section.

 
Original Preface5

The Emaciated Immortal says

this piece was written by Mao Zhongweng of the Song dynasty. Its theme lies in being a gentleman nesting in clouds or pine trees among the hills and valleys. Lacking desires, he and society have forgotten each other, and he does not drag worldly entrapments to himself, but in fact uses mountains as a barricade and clean flowing water as a (protective) moat. Heaven and earth form his hut, grass and trees comprise his clothing; he pillows his head on rocks in a stream, and rinses out his mouth with stones from the river; he happily goes back and forth amongst all this. As for the pleasure of moon in the mountains, wind on the river, or the sound of birds crying and flowers falling, the taking of all these things is not forbidden: they can be used, but never used up. This is what is called a person who loves whatever nature has fated him with, because nature has already given him so much. And if someone is happy to live until old age amongst springs and rocks, he will get even more pleasure.

 
Music
Three sections (Titles from Zheyin 6

(00.00) 1. Camaraderie with the springs and rocks
(00.57) 2. Using heaven and earth as a residence
(01.40) 3. Lying in the misty haze; making friends with the wind and the moon
(02.28) -- play harmonics of this mode
(02.45) -- Melody ends

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Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 山居吟 8043.219 山居 has reference to Huainanzi. 8043.221 山居賦。文章偏名。南朝宋謝靈運選 ; nothing on music. (Return)

2 For further information on zhi mode see Shenpin Zhi Yi and Modality in Early Ming Qin Tablature. (Return)

3 Kuian Qinpu illustration (QQJC XI/50)
There is no inscription. (Return)

4 毛敏仲 (Return)

5 For the original text see 山居吟. (Return)

6 1. 伴泉石 ; 2. 廬天地 ; 3. 臥姻霞 ; 4. 友風雨 . Zheyin expands the third section into two. (Return)

 
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