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Qu Yuan · Da Siming from Nine Songs, excerpted with a contemporary intro and refrain · Dai Amei

Great Master of Fate · Dark Clouds at Heaven's Gate

Name: Great Master of Fate · Dark Clouds at Heaven's Gate
Duration: 2 min 44 s
Channel: William Lee
Description: Heaven's Gate is not scenery but a threshold for questions of long life, early death, parting and reunion. Dai Amei sings through dark clouds, rushing wind, freezing rain and the Nine Provinces: nine of fourteen classical couplet-lines are selected, while four contemporary lines return the ancient question to the present without pretending to reconstruct a rite.

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Heaven's Gate is not scenery but a threshold for questions of long life, early death, parting and reunion. Dai Amei sings through dark clouds, rushing wind, freezing rain and the Nine Provinces: nine of fourteen classical couplet-lines are selected, while four contemporary lines return the ancient question to the present without pretending to reconstruct a rite.

VOICE: DAI AMEI
LANGUAGE: Mandarin Chinese · traditional-character source captions
FRAME: 824×1464
RUNTIME: 2:44

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