Chapter 32 Li Mo/Helpless Li Mo Steals Sheet Music

Tang poet Zhang Hu wrote a poem "Li Modi": What is said in the poem is such a story: Tang Minghuang, who loves music, is also a master of flute.One night, he played a flute piece he had newly composed in Shangyang Palace.The next day was the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, he went out of the palace to watch the lanterns, and suddenly heard someone playing a flute in a restaurant, and what he was playing was the new song he composed just last night.Tang Minghuang was very surprised, because this piece of music has not been spread to the outside world.So he ordered the flute player to be arrested quietly for interrogation.The flute player said: "Last night, I was admiring the moon at Tianjin Bridge. I heard someone playing the flute in the palace, so I wrote down the score." This person was Li Mo, the number one flute player in Chang'an at that time.

According to Tang Cui Lingqin's "Jiaofang Ji", Li Mo was a musician in Jiaofang.Tang Minghuang often summoned the famous female singer Xu Hezi to sing on a moonlit night in high autumn. It is said that Li Mo once went to Yuezhou. Once, everyone invited him to play in Jinghu Lake. Li Mo’s flute sound was beautiful and euphemistic, with twists and turns. At the end of the song, everyone applauded. . Li Mo was young and energetic, and he blurted out to the old man, "You look contemptuous, so you can play the flute too?" Said: "Your flute is good, but it has the tone of Kucha music, and the tune of the thirteenth paragraph is also wrong. Do you know?" Li Mo was shocked. I learned it, maybe the teacher made a mistake, so I asked the old man to play it.The old man said: "Although your flute is good, it can't withstand high notes. It will definitely break if you blow it to a high place." Li Mo and the others became more and more curious, and urged the old man to show his hand.

The old man had no choice but to take the bamboo flute, and after concentrating for a while, he played it. The sound of the flute was louder and purer than Li Mo's, and everyone was in a daze. With a sound of "beep", the bamboo flute really burst, and Li Mo was completely convinced. Early the next morning, Li Mo and everyone came to the hut of the old man Dugu. The old man had run away from home and disappeared.