What does the song "Moonlit Night on a Spring River" mean?

Moonlit Night on the Spring River is a famous song in Chinese classical music and a classic in Chinese classical music. This is an elegant and beautiful lyric music, just like a landscape painting. On a quiet night in spring, it shows us the charming scenery of nature, with the bright moon in Dongshan, the boats swaying on the river and the flowers swaying gently on the west bank. Through euphemistic and simple melody, smooth and changeable rhythm, clever and delicate orchestration and clever performance, music vividly depicts the charming scenery of the riverside on a moonlit night and praises the charm of Jiangnan water town. The whole song is like a long scroll of landscape painting, with delicate strokes, soft colors, beautiful and elegant, and fascinating.

The whole song is generally divided into ten paragraphs, and people follow the tradition of China's classical opening song, with a subtitle for each paragraph. These titles are: bells and drums in Jianglou, Dongshan on the moon, wind returning to Qushui, flowers and shadows cascading, deep water and clouds, fishermen singing late, ringing back to shore, singing far away, returning to the boat, and ending.

The first paragraph, "Bells and Drums in Jianglou", describes the setting sun reflected on the river, and the smoke rippled. Then, the band played a beautiful theme in unison, and the phrases were linked and euphemistic. The drums are soft and profound. The second and third paragraphs show the artistic conception of "the East Mountain on the Moon" and "the wind turns to bend the water". Then, if you see the river blowing gently, flowers swaying, reflections in the water, layers of trance. Entering the fifth stage of "deep clouds", the magnificent scenery of "there is no dust in the sky on the river, and there is a solitary moon wheel in the sky" arises spontaneously. The band played in unison, speeding up the pace, just like the picture of white sails, fishing songs in the distance, singing one by one from far and near. In the seventh paragraph, the pipa is played with a sweeping wheel, just like a fishing boat breaking through the water and setting off waves lapping on the shore. The climax of the whole song is the ninth paragraph "Going Home", and the melody is exciting from slow to fast, from weak to strong. The artistic conception of returning to the boat and breaking through the water, splashing waves and screaming "Nai Nai" has reached the emotional peak from far to near. Then the music came to an abrupt end in a rapid way, returned to a calm and gentle artistic conception, and then ended. The music at the end is so ethereal and long that it disappears in the distance like a canoe on the river. The night sky by the river is quiet and serene, and the whole song ends in a melodious and slow melody, which makes people indulge in this poetic and charming artistic conception …