Zengzi Gui Geng is #13 of the 21 miscellaneous songs attributed to Cai Yong, but as a qin melody Gui Geng survives only in Fengxuan Xianpin,². The theme of the song is filial duties.

Zengzi (Zeng Shen, 505-436), a disciple of Confucius particularly famous for his filial piety, was also known for living a simple life of poverty.

Gui Geng in Fengxuan Xuanpin is a short song. The lyrics are first accompanied by a harmonic passage, then are repeated with essentially the same melody without harmonics.³

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The lyrics, not attributed, are repeated once.

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 16714.144/1 retire from official life; /2 a qin melody by Zengzi. The latter references a footnote to the biography of 張衡 Zhang Heng in the 後漢書 History of the Latter Han, quoting some lyrics that are related to but different from those here: 往而不及者年也，不可得而再事者親也。歔欷歸耕來兮。安所耕？歷山盤兮(嶔崟)。 Zha's Guide (see next footnote) also quotes some related lyrics. (Return)

2 Zha's Guide 16/163/362. Page 163 has several commentaries from other sources, not from qinpu. (Return)

3 There seem to be a number of errors (items unclear or impossible to play). (Return)

4 (Return)

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