A musician played and sang Jiang Kui's An Xiang for me, it was the first time
that I had listened to it being played on a guitar. I almost shedded tears. I
think Jiang Kui would have been surprised and delighted that an Italian
musician, nearly a thousand years after his time, played this timeless melody.
Some things can only be understood by experiencing them yourself. When I was
young, I heard someone playing the slower tune of “Lament in the Pavilion” and
liked it very much, so I enrolled in a guqin class, but it was too far away and
my life is under pressure and I was forced to fail to persist. And I move often.
Perhaps only people who move frequently can understand the traveling in Jiang
Kui's middle and late life.
“He Xun now is gradually aging, And entirely forgets
the lyric brush inspired by the spring wind.”