Chapter 21 whirlpool five stone powder

My friend Chen Jianhua returned to China for vacation a few days ago, and played a piece of his early sound effect works. Among them, there is a section that is most memorable to me. He named it "Whirlpool Five Stones". The inspiration for this work comes from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, because the intellectuals in the Wei and Jin Dynasties abandoned Confucianism and became obsessed with Huang Lao, creating a romantic life that has never existed in China. In order to escape the real environment, many people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties became addicted to eating hallucinations They called the psychedelics "Whirlpool Wushi San", also known as "Hanshi San".

Regarding "Cold Food Powder", there was such a comment: "Although the prescription of Cold Food Powder came out in the Han Dynasty, those who used it have been passed down. Find Ye." It can be seen that Chinese people have taken hallucinogenic drugs as early as the Han Dynasty, or even before the Han Dynasty. Chen Jianhua's "Whirlpool Five Stones" is actually very simple. He uses the micro-tone of the dulcimer to make the sound of bubbles gushing out, and uses the hole sound of the flute to make the sound of the wind blowing. Blowing the reed flute, making a distant sound, while the literati in the Wei and Jin Dynasties were wandering away after eating the whirlpool five stone powder, making the chest of the listener rise up, as if it was going to be empty.It can be seen that the contagious power of sound is not inferior to any art.

Then we talked about the romantic and informal era of the Wei and Jin Dynasties. I asked Chen Jianhua, who had studied music effects in Los Angeles, why he chose "Whirlpool Five Stones" as an experiment in music.His point of view is that everyone has the desire to wander into emptiness, because the emptiness of everything is really the realm of Buddhism, and not everyone can achieve it.People whose souls have something to rely on can get out of their bodies and travel around without using drugs; ordinary people can't, so they have to use drugs to anesthetize themselves, which is why psychedelic drugs have been used for thousands of years.

But taking psychedelics also produces different levels.For low-level psychedelics, we see too much in the social news every day, or pretend to be crazy, or take off their clothes in the street, or lie down on the street, making a fool of themselves everywhere. , they left behind some historical stories. "Liu Lingheng indulged in wine, or took off his clothes and naked in the house, and people ridiculed him. Ling said: I take the sky and the earth as my buildings, and my houses as my clothes. Why are you gentlemen? I wave it?" What a mind!What fun! "Ruan Ji's sister-in-law tasted Guining. When she met her and said goodbye, or ridiculed her, she said: "Is it for my generation to set up etiquette? The woman next door is beautiful, so she should buy wine with jealousy. After tasting and drinking, she will lie down on her side when she is drunk." Ji didn't suspect himself, and his husband didn't doubt it when he checked it out. The village girl was talented, but died unmarried, and Ji didn't know her father and brother, so she went to cry and returned with all her sorrow." What blood!What a true love! "All the Ruan are drinking wine, (Ruan) Xianzhi, the family members gather together, no longer use cups and cups to drink, but use big basins to hold wine, sit around each other, and drink more after drinking. Sometimes a group of pigs come to drink his wine, Ruan Xian Go directly to it and drink it together." What kind of Renda is this!What a true character!

These romantics who seek leisure and oppose traditions and reject sages and sages are all popular to eat "Whirlpool Five Stone Powder". It is certain that the talents are free and unhindered. Lu Ji once had such a theory about contemporary literature in "Wen Fu": "Thinking winds from the heart, words flow from the lips and teeth, the writing slightly overflows the eyes, and the sound is cold and cold. And fill the ear", "Xin Chengxin speaks with contemplation and ignorance of public concern. Cage the heaven and the earth in the shape, and crush everything in the pen."

If it is said that taking psychedelic drugs can make people degenerate, why can the literature and art of the Wei and Jin Dynasties have such extraordinary achievements?I think that the prescription of "Whirlpool Wushi Powder" must be different from modern psychedelic drugs. Through this drug, the true feelings and imagination of Wei and Jin literature were inspired, and also contributed to the emergence of later landscape and pastoral literature. With the vortex and five stones scattered, they once wrote "Send sorrow to the sky, bury sorrow to the ground"; , as if seeing all the immortals"; "Abstinence to the eight extremes, the heart travels thousands of feet"; "If you don't have to silk and bamboo, the mountains and rivers have voiceless sounds"; kind of confession.They are like being in a vortex, standing at the time of cold food, and everyone's life experience is like a song, played in the night sky with the breeze.

In today's world, the whole environment has changed, and it is too difficult to escape from the world. The young people who take hallucinogens to try to kill the depression in the world are not as individual, stylish, and talented as the Wei and Jin literati. It reminds me of the "whirlpool" The name "Five Stones San" can't help but feel a little sad. That feeling is like sitting in a friend's small room, listening to the music of "Whirlpool Five Stones" created by him in his youth, as if one is involved in the vortex of time, and soon walks a long distance. Behind is billowing smoke and dust.

— August 5, 1981