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History of Chinese Guqin(13)

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Due to the development of printing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, a large number of piano scores were published and circulated. There are more than 140 piano scores recorded. From this we can see that there are more than 300 piano music created in the Ming Dynasty alone. Leng Qian, a piano player in the early Ming Dynasty, was a theory proposed for the aesthetic thoughts, performance techniques and artistic expression of the guqin. Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of the Ming Dynasty, the 19th son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty, was a piano player who made outstanding contributions to the development of guqin art.

It contains 64 artistic treasures before the Tang and Song dynasties. In the 12th year, it hosted the "Miracle Secret Record" and was published in 1425. It is the earliest existing piano score in my country. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Xu Shangying further proposed the "Twenty-Four Piano Conditions". Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, famous piano music include "Autumn Hong", "Floating Geese in the Sand", "Fishermen and Woodcutters' Q&A", "Good Night", "Narcissus Care", "Gulls and Hernes Forget Mechanics", "Dragon Flying Cao", "Flowers and Woodcutters' Autumn Wind", etc.

During this period, due to the influence and influence of folk music (especially opera music), the guqin skills developed outstandingly, especially the innovation of left-hand skills, such as "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud" and "Hu Zuo Eighteen Beats" in "Wu Zhizhai Qin Tu", the left-hand techniques were extremely delicate and unprecedented. Many subsequent guqin scores also reached a new stage in sorting, processing and disseminating traditional guqin music. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, famous guqin people were Yan Cheng, Xu Xi, Jiang Xingxu, Xu Changyu, Jiang Wenxun, Zhang Kongshan and others, and famous modern guqin people include Huang Mianzhi, Yang Zongji, Wang Yanqing, etc.

During the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, due to wars and social changes, especially the limitations of the guqin itself, the guqin music was on the verge of extinction. At that time, some guqin music also appeared across the country, such as the "Yueyun Qinjiji" in Beijing, the "Deyin Qinshe" in Jinan, the "Jinyu Qinshe" in Shanghai, the "Yinyu Qinshe" in Changsha, the "Yuanyin Qinshe" in Taiyuan, the "Guangling Qinshe" in Yangzhou, the "Qinghuo Qinshe" in Nanjing, and the "Mei'an Qinshe" in Nantong. Their activities all had certain social influence. Among them, the "Jinyu Qinshe" in Shanghai, which lasted the longest and had the greatest impact on the guitar world.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the guqin music received attention and rescue from the government, investigated, collected and sorted out various scores lost among the people, and recorded a batch of audio; excavated a batch of lost guqin music, such as "Guangling San" and "Youlan", and cultivated a group of guqin music talents, which opened up new prospects for the future guqin music sorting, research and development. In 1977, NASA's "Voyager" launched a gold record that could run 100 million years into space. The guqin music "Flowing Water" represents Chinese music and was loaded into this record to find soulmates in the universe. On November 7, 2003, the Chinese guqin was officially included in the world's second batch of "Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" list.

In today's society, where everything emphasizes speed and convenience, faces increasing impacts on the cultural level; when people expect to slow down, seek harmony between physical and mental aspects, to cultivate their emotions and nature, and to rest and recuperate... it seems to be becoming an unattainable dream. In the busy and competitive pressure of the industrial and commercial society, many people have lost themselves, forgotten the cultural heritage they once had, and are even less clear about how they will face the future.

In traditional Chinese culture, there are many unknown treasures and give people many philosophy and wisdom in dealing with the world. The gradually forgotten "guqin" has such a function. It is listed as the first of the four arts of "qin, chess, calligraphy and painting". It is a compulsory musical instrument for every literati in ancient times to cultivate one's own character. Ji Kang said in "Qinfu": "The zither is the best among all instruments"; the so-called "a scholar does not withdraw the zither without reason" ("Book of Rites·Quli II"), "a gentleman's closeness to zither is not the heart" ("Zuo Zhuan·Zhao Gong's first year"), which shows the lofty status of "qin" in the minds of literati.

The purpose of Chinese literati playing the piano is not just to present music, it contains the harmony between man and nature, the cosmic view of the unity of man and nature, the view of life and moral view. If a person thinks in his heart, he can be understood from the sound of the piano and the posture of the piano. Listening to a person playing the piano is like reading a person's heart, the piano is like a mirror, reflecting the inner world of a person. Through the transmission of the piano sound, the posture and charm of the literati playing the piano can understand the person's temperament and preferences. Many ancient books mention "Qinde", music and teaching, and playing the piano can cultivate one's body Concepts such as nurturing nature are because literati can understand their emotional ups and downs through playing the piano, and then understand their own strengths and weaknesses; further correct their postures when playing the piano, to meet the requirements when playing the piano, affect the adjustment of their inner psychology, and over time, they will play a subtle role. The sound of the piano is pure and indifferent, which can make people's heart peaceful and quiet, and the whole body is comfortable. Therefore, it is better to nourish the heart than to nourish the body. It is better to learn the piano yourself than to listen to the piano, experience it yourself, and feel the various influences in the piano. The joy and satisfaction in the depths of the soul can only be understood but not expressed in words.

For five thousand years, China has inherited the ideas of Confucian and Taoist schools and formed a distinctive historical, life and cultural connotation. China's "guqin" has now been listed as a "world cultural heritage" by UNESCO. This article will use "guqin" as an example to illustrate the profound connotation of "guqin" in the inheritance of long-standing culture, so as to understand the way of self-cultivation and nature contained in it, and to experience the artistic conception of "clear, subtle, quiet, and distant" and the wisdom of facing life.
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