For Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are featuring an excerpt from the first movement of "Blue Flowers on the Flowing Water" by Fang Man performed by Sgt. 1st Class Grace Bauson. From the composer:
"For this piece, I adopted two popular Chinese folk melodies: the folksong Blue Orchid Flowers from the Northern Shaanxi province in the first part. The song praises a rebellious woman in the feudal era whose name is Lan Huahua (the Blue Orchid Flowers). In Western culture, the blue flower symbolizes desire, love, hope and beauty."
This 3-D video was captured at The Yin Yu Tang House of the Peabody Essex Museum. This building originated in China's Huizhou region that is more than 200 years old and housed generations of the same family until it was donated to the museum.
U.S. Army video by Staff Sgt. Joshua Buxton
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