Ou Lu Wang Ji
(
Forgetting the Vulgar Ideas)
Guqin: Wang
Fei Xiao: Li Xiangting
| This 300 year-old piece takes as its theme a tale from a collection
of fables known as Liezi. The story tells of a fisherman at sea. The seagulls
gathered around his boat but he had no though of hunting the birds. When
he told his wife, she suggested he kill some of them and bring them home.
However, as soon as he thought of hunting the birds, they no longer came to his boat. The moral of the story is that unless you forsake such schemes, there will be no harmony and no pleasure from nature. This piece is very meditative. |