When she played the first note, the whole city fell silent.
An accident caused Yan Le, a lecturer at the top modern music academy, to transform into the second daughter of the new Yan family in Shanghai in 1920 - Yan Leqing.
The original person was weak and sensitive, trapped by love; but she was independent and tenacious, holding the violin in her hand, and her soul was burning with the ultimate pursuit of music and the feelings of her family and country that spanned a century.
In this turbulent era, she used the piano as a sword to break through the situation.
· She stunned the Paris Conservatoire with her song "Homesickness" and broke the Western prejudice against Chinese students.
· She used her song "Awakening" to cry out for her sleeping motherland in the international arena.
From the boudoir in Shanghai to the streets of Paris, from personal emotions to family and country, what flows on her strings is no longer just notes, but a horn of awakening and an unyielding backbone in troubled times.
And behind her, there was always the man with warm eyes but passionate heart - Shen Yanci.
He was born into a warlord family, but he traveled far across the ocean, determined to save the country through industry. He doesn't understand music, but he is the only confidant who can understand the loneliness and concern deep in her music.
"Yanle, after returning to China, I want the sound of your piano to be heard in a land without war or oppression."
This is a resonance that spans time and space, and is the mutual achievement and affectionate waiting of two independent souls in the torrent of the times.
See how modern souls use music as a medium to write a soul-stirring song in the Republic of China - "Shanghai String Song".
