Flowers, Birds and Insects: Eternal Feelings in the Four Seasons

Helen 2022-04-20 09:02:10


Ghibli is a roll of nursery rhyme film. It can be flipped out and put into the gramophone, and it can sound the old moving. "Kaguya Princess" is also a child's growth story. Although one day, she puts on a coat of brilliant embroidery and decides to become an adult. But when she stepped on the cherry blossoms and spun and laughed, the singing insincerely revealed the emotions that belonged to Bamboo.


In the process of watching the movie, I was constantly moved by the overlapping evoked by the OST, so I reviewed "Deer Bells" again. Ink animation, if we have to say that there is something in common between ethnic groups, then it is the innate love of mountains and wild spirits that belongs to the Chinese cultural circle. Simple ink, soft and moist rice paper, limited outline and color, after all, portraits cannot be completely generalized, and freehand brushwork is difficult to describe. Naturally, they are the real masters of the picture scroll. The spring is late, the autumn wind is rustling, love is like a gift, and happiness is like an answer. The deer licked and danced with the girl intimately, and the birds watched Xiao Huiye, watching her sprout and grow like a flower. There's no story here, just a past form that everyone knows by heart, and you can fill in your own experiences. The music further stimulates, when facing the universe, one can't help but reflect on childhood and the present, intertwined with enthusiasm and dazed feelings.


"Kaguya Princess" has a wide variety of OST tracks, and there are several basic melodies. Insects, birds and flowers are the images used in the children's songs in the film, which summarizes the main three musical tones, three life stages, and three kinds of mixing of the breeze and the moon.



Flowers: 100000000000000000000000000 red is always spring - budding え; life

ink from ivy, white stone, absolutely good at flowers. I remember the young man with bamboo, the intoxicating and joyful countryside, the Magnolia magnolia sprouting vigorously with the child, the broken branches and green peaches on the way home with the old couple and their sons, and the spring forsythia flowers flying wildly with warblers. The budding え, life, the title of the song perfectly expresses the realm of painting and the realm of music. Brisk tone, melodious life.

In contrast, Yasheng え is a movement with a more complete structure, and life can be described as a variation. Yasheng え is 2 minutes and 19 seconds long, which is not too short for anime soundtracks. Play a bamboo flute first, gently bringing in the main melody quietly and generously. Gorgeous and arrogant, is everyone's demeanor. Before entering the main chapter, the passage between 0:35-0:40 adds this harmony. The ensemble of harp and violin stretched strings is exquisitely carved, with a hint of playfulness.

Sure enough, the orchestra and string orchestra behind them pitched in harmony, just as the boys and girls in the mountains were playing. Under the normal face of the pipe band, it seems to be pretending to be serious, hiding a little teasing selfishness. The low creeping sound and the jumping backing of the string orchestra urge the brass ensemble to accelerate and rise continuously, and can't stand it anymore and jump out of the boudoir. It seems that the buds are about to bloom, and finally break through the soil and burst out. So there is a playful concerto of xylophone, flute and violin starting at 01:10. With the melodious tune, follow the footsteps of Bamboo and his friends, climb mountains and mountains, pick flowers and grass, fish and catch shrimps.

A few double bass chords heralded the beginning of the story, as the marching horns and viola forcibly interrupted. We got a magnificent symphony, and the third phrase was suddenly cut and simplified, leaving only a few pieces of wind music - at this time, there was no sound, just for the grand finale. Like hide-and-seek partners, they jumped out from among the flowers and trees! The string band made a collective appearance, drawing a shining end to this country childhood symphony poem.

In the song of life, the two protagonists, the trumpet and the little kiss, may be understood to be the elder brother and the bamboo. This song is played again when viewing the cherry blossoms in the second half of the film.



Birds: Hundreds of Whispers and Thousands of Voices Randomly Moved - タケノコ (bamboo);

two songs of 春のワルツbamboo and 春のワルツ, which are the most abundant works on the whole disc with the verve of the soundtrack of domestic ink and wash short films in the 1950s and 1960s. Comparing "Deer Bells" and "Landscape Love", we can see that, in addition to changing to a melody style that is more in line with modern aesthetics, the frequent rhythm changes focus on the concise style of a single instrument, and the wind music is in front of the strings. , are all familiar. Deliberately witty little passages (Bamboo 01:06-01:25), reminiscent of the childlike sketches of Shanghai Film Studio; and the well-organized three-beat dance symphony (春のワルツ01:17-01:55) , isn't it a children's film full of grand narratives at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China?

Paste the lyrics of the children's song in the next film:

Hui (ま) れ Hui れ Hui れ よ Water Wheel (み ず ぐ る ま ) Hui ( ま わ ) れ

Huiっ て お 日 (ひ) さ ん HU ( よ) ん で こ い

っ て お 日 (ひ) さ ん (よ) んでこい

bird (とり) insect (むし) beast (けもの)

Plants (くさき) Flowers (はな)

Spring (はる) Summer (なつ) Autumn (あき) Winter (ふゆ) Lian (つ)れてこい

Spring (はる) Summer (なつ) Autumn (あき) Winter (ふゆ) Lian (つ) れてこい

nursery rhymes has an independent melody (わらべ chan), a variation of a zither (qin no tune べ). If タケノコ (bamboo, 春のワルツ is inevitably infected with some Han style, then the nursery rhyme is a product of Japan's own culture. It turns to the gloomy tone of ancient times, and the sentimentality of life like dew and wormwood is owned by a mature thinking system. ? It belongs to a culture that is closer to the wildness of the ancient times. It is unable to restrain itself from the fragility and sensitivity of life. "The Sorrow of Things".

Kaguya's childhood was occupied by these two heterogeneous musical motives. The joy of sadness, the surging passion of life and the luxuriant foliage; sometimes it is joy and sorrow, and the ominous premonition that I will finally leave the paradise. It is because of this confusion that I especially recall my childhood. The pure son of the country, forever A game that will not be exhausted and stop,



ignorant day

after day, I haven't recognized its face yet, it is a yellow flower of tomorrow looking back. Jun, it seems that puberty opens the door to troubles, and the heroine gradually becomes elegant and quiet, with lingering memories and sorrows. The melody of the night is not natural sadness. At the beginning of the film, my father found Kaguya in the bamboo forest. Ji Shi, who used the same melody はじまり, has only a sense of mystery and mystery. In my opinion, this song should also belong to the music of heaven and man.

In the film, the guqin is played, but the actual instrument is the guzheng. The section on learning the zheng is the finishing touch in the second half. The noble life is lackluster, and the static daily life is naturally not as fresh and interesting as the four-season scenery in the countryside. The only thing to do is to rely on Hui Ye's hands flying between the wild goose pillars. This is also a nobleman, she can no longer cry and laugh, express her feelings, but put her mind on Yaoqin.

The timbre of the Japanese koto was originally crisper than that of the Chinese zither. Although the musical tones in the film basically follow the five rhythms of the Tang Dynasty, the strings' rising and falling tones are still very strong. Guzheng solo, simple and simple, everything is peaceful, back to the lively at the beginning, the noble music that originally symbolized elegance, actually has some new bitterness. After all, Kaguya is no longer nostalgic, and every night she watches the moon and sings her qin, and returns to the same cold and ruthless hometown. If the sky is in love, the sky is also old. Since she is a sinful fairy, it means that all the joys in the world are "historic times". The memories she loved but never came back, because of happiness, became torment, experienced the pain of burning house, saw all kinds of ugliness in the adult world at the mercy of lust, and forgot both joy and sorrow. As clear as yesterday, only the silver zither. It is not a mountain flower, a grass, a bird, a stream, a thatched hut, or a mountain pass. It is a roaring beetle that perches on a tall tree and eats and drinks dew on the bank of the mansion. I think, if you have the heart to listen to the chirping of insects at night, your mood should be extremely lonely and lonely. Banqueting the Shengge, it seemed like a cloud of smoke in the blink of an eye, she listened to the curtains several times by herself, but she heard it so clearly.

Even if it is inevitable to grow, it is destined to be forgotten at the end. It is still the human affairs in the objects and the emotions in the scenery.

"Kaguya Princess" missed the Oscars, with one judge calling it "obscure Chinese stuff". No wonder the crooked nuts thought it was something from China. Although it is a Japanese folk tale, the melody overflowing with springs and fields in the mountains, the sound of tremors in the trees, and the sound of stopping the clouds, all repeatedly exaggerate the natural feelings of the blending of things and people in the Chinese cultural circle. There is a metabolism in personnel, and there are traces of success in the country. But care about the path, the clouds on the rock continue. Farewell's mother resigned from home, Guiyue gave up the world, and Kaguya was a tragedy. However, this endless life will eventually make those who sigh and comprehend, quell their resentment in the prosperity of insects, birds and flowers, and return to innocent and worry-free children.




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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya quotes

  • The Princess Kaguya: [singing] Go round, come round, come round... come round, oh distant time. Come round, call back my heart. Come round, call back my heart. Birds, bugs, beasts, grass, trees, flowers. Teach me how to feel. If i hear that you pine for me, i will return to you.