The Origin of Chinese Classical Music in China Music

When did China music begin? The enlightenment period of China folk music was more than two thousand years before Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of the Chinese nation. In the Neolithic Age 6700-7000 years ago, our ancestors may have been able to burn clay pots and dig bone whistles. These primitive musical instruments undoubtedly tell people that people at that time already had the aesthetic ability of music. According to ancient documents, ancient music culture has the characteristics of combining singing, dancing and music. The so-called "three people fuck the cow's tail, and the eight songs attract their feet" in the Ge clan is the best explanation. What people sang at that time, such as "respecting nature", "fighting for grain" and "the extreme of the total beast", reflected the ancestors' understanding of agriculture, animal husbandry and the natural laws of heaven and earth. These primitive music and dances, which combine song, dance and pleasure, are also related to the totem worship of the primitive clan. For example, the clan of the Yellow Emperor once took the cloud as a totem, and his music and dance were called Cloud Gate. With regard to the original musical form, we can see the Song of Waiting for People written by Tu Shanshi's daughter in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals. The lyrics of this song are only "waiting for someone", and only the word "waiting for someone" has real meaning. This is the bud of music, and it is the language that breeds. According to ancient records, when Fuxi was Nuwa, Qin, Se and Xiao had been invented. At this time, "Qin" is the predecessor of "Guqin" now. There are countless poems and stories written around the guqin, including the poem My Fair Lady, Friends of the Harp. There is a story that says, "Boya was good at playing the piano, and Zhong Ziqi was good at listening. He died when he was a child. Boya broke the piano and never played it again for life. "It can be seen that the sound of the piano is the inner voice. Guqin occupies a very high position in China's music. "Zheng" comes from "color" and has the same effect as "Qin". Because it was popular in the State of Qin during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was called "Qin Zheng" in history. The voice of "Zheng" is gorgeous and beautiful, lively and lyrical, and it is good at expressing the artistic conception of flowing water. Today, we put "Qin" and "Zheng" side by side in front of your eyes. I hope you can appreciate the profound cultural origin and rich artistic background of the Chinese nation in the long sound of the piano. Guqin, also known as lyre, or Si Tong, Qilu, etc. Because there are seven strings, it is also called "lyre". The piano body is formed by gluing a panel and a bottom plate, showing a long and narrow shape. Thirteen "emblem" points are embedded in the panel outside the rope. Liu Changqing, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, once wrote, "Your lyre is like a cold wind in a pine forest." Its "seven strings" refers to the guqin, and "Lingling" refers to the timbre of the guqin.

Today, when people talk about Chinese classical music and western classical music, some people think that China's music, especially classical music, has been declining for nearly two or three hundred years. Not only did all kinds of musical instruments not develop, but even composers only appeared at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, not to mention all kinds of music scores (what's more, China didn't have any real music scores at all).

As far as the piano is concerned, as early as the baroque era, it had the embryonic form of development. Then after classical, romantic, modern and even later generations, its industry has developed to a considerable extent, and its timbre and timbre are quite perfect and accurate. However, China's classical musical instruments have really stagnated.

But I think China's traditional classical music, on the one hand, has industrial factors in it, and at the same time, has China's traditional ideas in it. First of all, China is a discriminatory attitude towards artists; Secondly, the traditional thought strives for simplicity, inaction, purity and leisure, unlike the western thought, which strives for preciseness and meticulousness: China's music scores, such as Guangling San, Yuefu, Shijing, Song Ci and Yuanqu, abound, but now the so-called music score has been lost, leaving only the literary part.

As for classical music, one of my views is that China's art is superior to that of the West. The reason why he is not accepted by westerners, or those who only admire Western culture without studying their own culture, is because China culture is a comprehensive and all-inclusive culture and art, and it is a synthesis of political philosophy, art, social science, astronomy and other disciplines divided by the West. For example, an ancient poem is also a reflection of a philosophical point of view, an artistic expression (the singing method of ancient poems is said to have been lost), and so on: if the same ancient literati achieved something in his career by relying on his fame, he may be a politician, a writer, a military reformer (China's original literati read widely, but actually only one article has many aspects of knowledge), an astronomer, a geographer, and so on; If the officialdom is frustrated, he may become an artist, a chess player or even a doctor (many scholars in ancient times have always been good at distinguishing yellow).

These, I think, all come from the thinking mode of Chinese and western cultures: China is deductive method, and Greek culture, the source of western culture, is summary method.