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Ode to the Red Cliff · River-Wind Baritone

赤壁赋 · 江风男中音版

2026-09-14 · 6:48

One small boat moves from celebration to sorrow, then finds room in water and moon.

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River wind and moonlight need not be owned.

Mandarin classical-prose ballad direction · guqin, xiao and South Asian colours

Su Shi’s Ode to the Red Cliff moves through breeze, river light, flute and the mayfly, letting a conversation turn from finite life toward a world shared rather than possessed. It ends not with a victory, but with dawn arriving unnoticed: a little peace can remain with the reader.

The unhurried 66 BPM ballad brief places guqin and xiao beside sarangi-coloured bowed lines, tabla, harmonium, fingerpicked guitar and suspended strings. Close Mandarin baritone and river-like space are this edition’s public design; instrumental section markers do not make the whole source an instrumental.

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[instrumental] 壬戌之秋,七月既望, 苏子与客泛舟游于赤壁之下。 清风徐来,水波不兴。 举酒属客,诵明月之诗, 歌窈窕之章。 少焉,月出于东山之上, 徘徊于斗牛之间。 白露横江,水光接天。 纵一苇之所如, 凌万顷之茫然。 浩浩乎如冯虚御风, 而不知其所止; 飘飘乎如遗世独立, 羽化而登仙。 [instrumental] 于是饮酒乐甚, 扣舷而歌之。 歌曰:“桂棹兮兰桨, 击空明兮溯流光。 渺渺兮予怀, 望美人兮天一方。” 客有吹洞箫者, 倚歌而和之。 其声呜呜然, 如怨如慕,如泣如诉; 余音袅袅,不绝如缕。 舞幽壑之潜蛟, 泣孤舟之嫠妇。 [instrumental] 苏子愀然,正襟危坐, 而问客曰:“何为其然也?” 客曰:“‘月明星稀,乌鹊南飞。’ 此非曹孟德之诗乎? 西望夏口,东望武昌, 山川相缪,郁乎苍苍, 此非孟德之困于周郎者乎? [instrumental 方其破荆州,下江陵, 顺流而东也, 舳舻千里,旌旗蔽空, 酾酒临江,横槊赋诗, 固一世之雄也, 而今安在哉? 况吾与子渔樵于江渚之上, 侣鱼虾而友麋鹿, 驾一叶之扁舟, 举匏樽以相属。 寄蜉蝣于天地, 渺沧海之一粟。 哀吾生之须臾, 羡长江之无穷。 挟飞仙以遨游, 抱明月而长终。 知不可乎骤得, 托遗响于悲风。” [instrumental] 苏子曰:“客亦知夫水与月乎? 逝者如斯,而未尝往也; 盈虚者如彼,而卒莫消长也。 盖将自其变者而观之, 则天地曾不能以一瞬; 自其不变者而观之, 则物与我皆无尽也, 而又何羡乎! 且夫天地之间,物各有主, 苟非吾之所有,虽一毫而莫取。 惟江上之清风,与山间之明月, 耳得之而为声,目遇之而成色, 取之无禁,用之不竭。 是造物者之无尽藏也, 而吾与子之所共适。” [instrumental] 客喜而笑,洗盏更酌。 肴核既尽,杯盘狼籍。 相与枕藉乎舟中, 不知东方之既白。 [instrumental]

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