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TODAY'S COMPLETE RECORDING · 4:28Across the Water · Jianjia在水一方
TODAY'S COMPLETE RECORDING · 4:28
Across the Water · Jianjia
在水一方
White dew gathers on the reeds while the distant figure remains across the water. Across the Water does more than borrow an ancient title: it sings all three stanzas of Jianjia, then lets a contemporary refrain answer that unreachable waterway from the bank.
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01 · ALL THREE STANZAS, TWELVE CLASSICAL LINES
Not only ‘the one I seek is across the water’: all three Jianjia stanzas enter the song
The source lyric marks three [Original Poem] blocks containing all twelve lines of Jianjia from the Qin Airs of the Book of Songs. Line-by-line comparison with the public classical text confirms the sequence from pale reeds and white dew through the first stanza's figure at midstream, the second stanza's changed reeds, dew, bank, ascent and islet, and the third stanza's final lexical turns. No line is removed or reordered, and no modern sentence is passed off as pre-Qin text. The twelve classical lines contain 134 characters and hash to 7111ed5850250e45897ded331fc5788fc0a6166baf82dfdb827e0e389341983b. The page calls this a new Book of Songs setting—not an archaeological reconstruction, recovered ancient melody or sole authoritative reading.
02 · THE ANCIENT POEM AND THE NEW REFRAIN STAY DISTINCT
‘We still look across a thousand years’ is today's answer, not a lost line from the Book of Songs
The complete 342-character source lyric hashes to 680d2b7d426b080e5b16b9df1ad32d49abb3e148bd0c5c40c9dacc1b0dd356da. Outside the classical blocks it explicitly labels an intro, refrain, final refrain and outro. A song beside the water, two people looking across a thousand years and one Amei phrase circling the reed marsh are contemporary additions. They turn the poem's threefold repetition into a singable structure without supplying a false ending or fixing the distant figure as one historical person, lover, political ideal or spirit. The creative act is to let source and response coexist without borrowing each other's names.
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Hear Across the Water · Jianjia in full: a 4:28 Mandarin Book of Songs setting with complete MP3 and full-length vertical source-lyric film. The twelve classical lines, new refrains, public Dai Amei Persona, two-version family, work-level timestamp, video_is_stale=true and no-long-silence master are all disclosed.
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