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Three Plum Blossoms

Hong Hao, a patriotic lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote the above lines on the occasion of his return to the Song Dynasty after being detained for ten years on a mission to the Jin Dynasty, when he wrote the words Jiangmei Quotation - Memories of the Plum Blossom. After showing the news of his imminent return to his hometown, he could not restrain his excitement, and manipulated the green qiqin to play a piece of "Plum Blossom Sanlang", borrowing the plum blossom's pride in the frost and snow as a metaphor for his own steadfastness, and reminiscing about the plum blossoms of the south of the Yangtze River to express his deep nostalgia for the Southern Song Dynasty.

Three Plum Blossoms is one of the ten most famous ancient Chinese compositions, also known as Plum Blossom Introduction and Jade Princess Introduction, which is a masterpiece of traditional Chinese art that expresses the plum blossoms. It is a masterpiece of traditional Chinese art that expresses the plum blossom. It has a beautiful and smooth melody, an elegant and unique form, and a high degree of artistry.

Ming Zhu Quan edited the "magical secret spectrum" records that this song is the earliest flute played by Huan Yi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The relevant historical allusion is the story of Huan Yi, a general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, who played the plum blossom "Three Tunes" for the madman Wang Hui Zhi. Huan Yi, a famous general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was praised by the Book of Jin for his "good music, which was the best in Jiangzuo. The flute piece was widely popular, and in the Tang Dynasty, the zither master Yan Gu changed it to a zither piece of the same name, and in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Quan included it in the "Magical Secret Score" and changed it to "Three Melodies of Plum Blossoms".

The whole piece consists of introduction, static plum blossom, dynamic plum blossom, and coda. The structure of the piece adopts a cyclic reproduction, repeating the theme three times, which is called "Three Fiddles": high fiddling, low fiddling, and traveling fiddling.

Through the plum blossom's white fragrance and cold-resistant features, the music expresses the plum blossom's elegant and clean charm and the spirit of defying frost and snow and standing proudly on its own in a unique way. The song is a tribute to people with noble morals.