Wu Xuan

Xiao performance, "Mooring at Night by Maple Bridge"

"The moon goes down, crows cry under the frosty sky;
Fishing boats dimly-lit, 'neath sleeping maple trees,
Beyond the Gusu city walls, there is the HanShan Temple,
The sound of ringing bells reached my boat, breaking the midnight silence.. " -- Zhang Ji (Tang dynasty)

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月落烏啼霜滿天，江楓漁火對愁眠。
姑蘇城外寒山寺，夜半鐘聲到客船。-- 張繼 (唐); 楓橋夜泊

秋江夜泊 - 簫獨奏; Night Mooring in Autumn - xiao solo 秋江夜泊 - 簫獨奏; Night Mooring in Autumn - xiao soloThis is possibly the most successful transcription using actual historical source material in the contemporary...

Today is is Liqiu, (Chinese: 立秋), signifies the "beginning of Autumn", is the first day of autumn on the Chinese lunar calendar.
In most northern hemisphere, heat and humidity of summer gradually fade away.

In the Gregorian calendar, it usually falls around August 7.

It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 135° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 150°.

"A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.” – Lao Tzu.
Lao Tze was an ancient Chinese Taoism philosopher.
The Tao can be understood as the way of the universe. Taoism believes that all living creatures ought to live in harmony with the universe, and the energy found in it.
Ch'i, or qi, is the energy present guiding everything in the universe.

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Tai Chi Basic Training, at "Zheng Xi" Tai Chi Institute with Tai Chi master Chang. Dali, China, May 2023.

Xiao performance, "Mooring at Night by Maple Bridge"

" The moon goes down, crows cry under the frosty sky;
Dimly-lit fishing boats 'neath sleeping maple trees,
Beyond the Gusu city walls, there is the Temple of Cold Mountain,
The sound of ringing bells reached my boat, breaking the midnight silence.. " -- Zhang Ji (Tang dynasty)

月落烏啼霜滿天，江楓漁火對愁眠。
姑蘇城外寒山寺，夜半鐘聲到客船。-- 張繼 (唐); 楓橋夜泊

秋江夜泊 - 簫獨奏; Night Mooring in Autumn - xiao solo 秋江夜泊 - 簫獨奏; Night Mooring in Autumn - xiao soloThis is possibly the most successful transcription using actual historical source material in the contemporary...

The Tao can be understood as the way of the universe. Taoism believes that all living creatures ought to live in harmony with the universe, and the energy found in it. Ch'i, or qi, is the energy present guiding everything in the universe.

"Xiao" 箫, a traditional Chinese music instrument, has a quality of "void" and "empty", the sound quality is consistent with the ancient Taoism philosophy, the great Dao - the Law of Nature.

In Chinese, to describe a nice suave man, they say 君子如玉, "a gentle man like a precious jade".

【箫Xiao】《良宵引》君子如玉，箫声如诉 | 夏日消暑必备Listening to a calming Chinese bamboo flute 《良宵引》初见于《松弦馆琴谱》（1614年），此本为龚一先生据《自远堂琴谱》（1802）打谱，屠化冰老师移植为洞箫独奏曲。此曲小而气度安闲，无俗气半点。其中吟猱绰注，起承转合，井井有条，浓淡合度，洵美隽永。当其....

Art is an experience to “taste”--

We use the word “taste” when we say someone who has a certain way of relating to art, e.g. someone has a good taste. It is the same word in French or in Chinese, perhaps in other languages too. We appreciate visual beauty with our eyes and music with our ears, why do we borrow a word from another sense?

I think it is because that food is so essential to our life and survival, over the long human history, we started to have better and more delicious food. We love food so much with this deep appreciation and gratitude for its life sustaining quality. The act of consuming food is a bodily and visceral experience.

At the same time, I believe art is as essential to our life and survival as food. When we eat, the delicious flavors we taste in our mouth, the warmth, refresh-ness and comfort we feel in our body all make it a pleasant, wholesome and life giving experience. Appreciation for art and beauty is linked to this visceral need and experience, it is not limited to the flavor we feel in our mouth but an overall feeling and comprehensive evaluation to something much deeper to our well-being.

Art is Faith toward Life August 27, 2020 Foreword Since I made my Water Series public in 2015, people started to tell me that I am an artist. Am I? I started to think more consciously about what art is and how to live a mo…

"from time to time, I would gaze up at the stars after the night shift and think that they looked like a glowing desert, and I myself was a poor child abandoned in the desert… I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe. The universe was an empty palace, and humankind a small ant in the entire palace."

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The universe is grand. Life is grander. Today is the last day of 2020, what a year! After two days of freezing cold wind, today the temperature is mild and the sun bright. So I took a walk to refresh my mind. I walked toward the directio…

“Art is the inevitable consequence of growth and is the manifestation of the principles of its origin.

The work of art is a result; is the output of a progress in development and stands as a record and marks the degree of development...

Art appears in many forms. To some degree every human being is an artist, dependent on the quality of his growth. Art need not be intended. "
- "The Art Spirit", by Robert Henry

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Art is the inevitable consequence of growth… ‘”Season”, acrylic on canvas, 30″x20″cm, 2020. “Art is the inevitable consequence of growth and is the manifestation of the principles of its origin. The work of…

The question of development of the art spirit in all walks of life interests me. I mean by this, the development of individual judgment and taste, the love of work for the sake of doing things well, tendency toward simplicity and order.

If anything can be done to bring the public to a greater consciousness of the relation between art and life, of the part each person plays by exercising and developing his own personal taste and judgment and not depending on outside “authority,” it would be well.

Moreover, if the buyers of pictures could be brought to believe that, whatever may be their interest in accredited old masters, they have, equally with the artists, their part to play in the development and the progress of art in our own time and place — that they, too, should enter the struggle for today’s expression, lending a full support by purchasing the works of the strugglers and searchers of our day and risking many mistakes in their purchases, just as the artists are risking many mistakes in their efforts—it would be of public benefit. – The Art Spirit, by Robert Henry

The Development of the Art Spirit “Blooming Hope”, acrylic on canvas, 30″x 25″cm, 2020 “The question of development of the art spirit in all walks of life interests me. I mean by this, the development …