Enter the Peony Pavilion

Author: Cai Yaoxian / Hu Mingming
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Love knows no beginning, yet it deepens endlessly. Those who can die for love and those who can be reborn from death are not the ultimate expression of love. Kunqu Opera, played with the silk flute, weaves melodies like "High Mountains and Flowing Waters," "Green Mountains Calling," and "Surrounded by Green Waters." It blends the radiant beauty of the music with the desolate sorrow of the autumn wind into every dusk and dawn. It portrays endless sorrow, decay, and the scattered dance of the "Rainbow Skirts" and the soul. With charming expressions and alluring grace, accompanied by the distant flute music that lingers in the ears, it flows with the melancholy of autumn and the reflections of spring. This is Yu Qiuyu's "Where Does the Flute Sound From," when the setting sun sings. It condenses the cold fragrance of dreams, this is Cai Yaoxian's "Stepping into the Peony Pavilion," suddenly awakening, scattering a patchwork of fragmented dreams. Amidst the notes, one can see the swift passage of generations, the intricate twists and turns, the alternation of the world's vicissitudes, and the clear changes of human affairs and the cycle of prosperity and decline.