Major Cold
— Winter and spring alternate, star weeks and months.

The cycle of the twenty-four solar terms has reached the end of the chapter, and the severe cold has arrived as scheduled. This is the coldest season of the year.
When the song “Great Cold” was completed, the album “Twenty-Four Solar terms” took nearly two years from the initial conception to the final presentation. It’s the least instrumented piece of the entire album-just a pipa and guitar, with a synthesizer embellishing the atmosphere.
The guitar is played from beginning to end in a simple, fixed decomposition rhythm, such as the regular breathing in the cold winter. The melodic motive of the lute, on the other hand, speaks in this silence, like an undercurrent under the ice.
In such a minimalist arrangement, every sound becomes an extension of the artistic conception. Winter will be over, spring is not far away, everything is waiting in anticipation.