Daily 古风 Song

An original 古風 song for day fourteen — a scholar alone in the riverside pavilion as autumn dusk descends: maple leaves adrift, the wine cold, the friend's lone sail fading into cloud around the river bend. Konghou (箜篌) opens the song with cascading arpeggios — the gentle weight of a parting that has already happened. Literary Chinese. Theme: farewell journeys (round 3).

An original 古風 song for day thirteen — Li Qingzhao in her final years in Lin'an: an inkstone going cold, a life's collection of bronze vessels and stone rubbings sunk in the Yangtze crossing, ci poems still forming in the mind with no one left to match them. Guzheng (古箏) leads for the first time in a historical theme — cascading strings for ci poetry texture, the weight of incomparable verse and dignified grief. Literary Chinese. Theme: historical figures & dynasties (round 3).

An original 古風 song for day twelve — an empty inner chamber on an autumn night: chrysanthemum wine cooling untouched, a bronze mirror catching the first silver thread at the temple, an embroidery needle set down mid-stitch on unfinished kingly birds. A letter sent half a year ago; no reply has come. Pipa leads for the first time in a love-and-separation theme. Literary Chinese. Theme: love & separation (round 3).