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Classical New Chapters 89 · The Man of Fangshan I · An Old Friend at Qiting

古典新章89·方山子傳01·岐亭故人

2026-10-15 · 4:00

A tall hat gives a man his name; a smile in a bare home turns past ambition toward present ease.

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The stranger in the hills is an old friend.

Creative direction: classical narrative song · conversation and space between partsWhat do these music words mean? ↓

Recognition begins with a startled question, then gives way to silence, a smile and an invitation to stay. These gestures offer more than a tidy explanation. Bare surroundings and a family’s contentment coexist; the lyric need not supply every hidden motive.

Sanxian and erhu belong to this edition’s brief, alongside conversational vocal phrasing. Listen for something answering after a sentence ends. Texture concerns how parts relate, not how many are needed for completeness or proof that every requested instrument appears.

Read the lyrics
方山子,光黃間隱人也。 少時,慕朱家、郭解爲人,閭里之俠皆宗之。 稍壯,折節讀書,欲以此馳騁當世,然終不遇。 晚乃遯於光黃間,曰岐亭。 菴居蔬食,不與世相聞,棄車馬,毀冠服,徒步往來,山中人莫識也。 見其所著帽,方聳而高,曰:「此豈古方山冠之遺像乎?」 因謂之方山子。 余謫居於黃,過岐亭,適見焉,曰:「嗚呼,此吾故人陳慥季常也,何爲而在此?」 方山子亦矍然,問余所以至此者,余告之故。 俯而不答,仰而笑,呼余宿其家。 環堵蕭然,而妻子奴婢,皆有自得之意;余既聳然異之。

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