A Farewell Song of Weichng

To Dear Dr. xxx

With full of thanks for your direction of my career, thanks for your help to solve my puzzles and thanks for your nice teaching,

say  Good-bye!

Best wishes

This traditional Chinese farewell song was based on a very famous Tang poem <A Song at Weicheng >. The author, Wang Wei is a famous poet, musician, artist and philosopher, who was well-known as “Poem-Buda”

A Song of Weicheng

Light rain is on the light dust,
The willows of the inn-yard
Will be going greener and greener,
But you, sir had better take wine ere your departure;
For you have no old friends about you when you come to the gate of Go.

Weicheng Lied

Nieselregen benetzt den Staub in Weicheng an diesem Morgen

Die Mauern des Gasthauses glaenzen wie neu, in feuchtem Weidengruen

Komm, trink mit mir noch ein letztes Glas Wein bevor du weiterziehst

Im Westen hinter dem Yangguan Pass wirst du keinen mehr kennen

Remains of Yangguan (the gate of Weicheng built in Tang Dynasty), where Wang Wei saw his friend off and wrote the famous A Song of Weicheng, located in province Gasu, China.

A Song of Weicheng

Light rain is on the light dust,
The willows of the inn-yard
Will be going greener and greener,
But you, sir had better take wine ere your departure;
For you have no old friends about you when you come to the gate of Go.

Weicheng Lied

Nieselregen benetzt den Staub in Weicheng an diesem Morgen

Die Mauern des Gasthauses glaenzen wie neu, in feuchtem Weidengruen

Komm, trink mit mir noch ein letztes Glas Wein bevor du weiterziehst

Im Westen hinter dem Yangguan Pass wirst du keinen mehr kennen

The main song consists of three-times repeated melody, which shows the sentimental emotion of sadness and missing. The end is gradually slow and diminuendo.

In this special CD for your leaving, the song was played by the four different Chinese traditional instruments: Guqin, Chinese zithers, flute and Erhu.

Guqin, the original intrument for A Song of Weicheng, is sometimes referred to by the Chinese as "the father of Chinese music”.

Chinese zithers 

Flute

Erhu, known as "Chines violin" in the west.