"Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon" / "Colourful Clouds Chasing the Moon" is a famous Guangdong folk song spread during the Qing Dynasty. In the year 935, Ren Guang and Nie Er adapted "Silver Clouds Chasing the Moon" into a piece for the national orchestra, and in 1960 Peng Xiuwen rearranged the orchestration to fit the central broadcasting national orchestra.
The story the piece illustrates is that immortals ride colourful auspicious clouds to the Moon Palace, and there are often descriptions of immortals driving colorful clouds in Chinese classical literary works. This song describes how the Moon Palace fairyland is imagined in people’s minds, through the people's unique relaxed freehand brushwork style in those times.
Performed by Binghao Li, brought to you by SMU Ivory Keys.
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