Wuyi mode versions of Yi Guanshan and #121 Han Gong Qiu survive as melodies only in Xilutang Qintong. Han Gong Qiu (q.v.) is also the name of an unrelated melody in the yu mode, whereas the title Yi Guanshan can be found in a Song dynasty list as a melody with the same tuning as here.

The reference to Guanshan is unclear. Guanshan is a place in Shaanxi or Shandong, but more often is used as an allusion to separation from home.

Yi Guanshan has no relationship to the popular modern melody of the Mei'an School, Guanshan Yue (Moon over Guanshan).⁴

 
Original Preface

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Music
Three sections, untitled (timings follow my recording 聽錄音; followed by Han Gong Qiu)

00.00   1.
00.45   2. (harmonics)
01.28   3.
02.10         harmonic coda
02.25         end

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Recalling Guanshan (Yi Guanshan 憶關山)
This melody (Zha Guide 21/--/--) survives only in 1549. 42402.10 Guanshan has two definintions: 關與山 "mountain pass" and 鄉里 "native place". For the first it quotes several poems including 滕王閣序 Preface to 'Pavilion of Prince Teng' by 王勃 Wang Bo (649-676); see Columbia Anthology, p.552. For the second it quotes 關山月詩 Moon over the Mountain Pass by 徐陵 Xu Ling (507-583); it is not in his New Songs from a Jade Terrace.
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2. Wuyi mode (無射調 Wuyi diao)
See also Shenpin Wuyi Yi. From standard tuning lower the first and raise the fifth strings a half step each.
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4. Moon over Guanshan (Guanshan Yue 關山月)
42402.11 Guanshan Yue (關山月) mentions several poems. The most famous, by Li Bai, concerns a soldier on the frontier separated from his lady. As a qin melody Zha Guide mentions only its inclusion in Meian Qinpu (1931), but it is also in the Longyinguan Qinpu said to date from 1799. As mentioned above, the title could also be translated as Moon over the Mountain Pass. This is a very popular beginners' melody using standard tuning.
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