Searching for Ancient Musical Instruments in Ancient Poetry--Reading the Beauty of Ancient Music

Today's popular costume drama, from time to time there will be a guqin (or guzheng), a hold pipa, an erhu, play a piece of heavenly music, not only to enhance the atmosphere, but also to show the talent, and properly brush the flow of tools. The ancient people also used the "sword and guts" to describe a man who can write and fight, elegant and chivalrous, the end is a man of the world.

But counting, the average number of ancient musical instruments, in addition to the above several kinds, only xiao, flute, yu (who let there is a idiom called "indiscriminate yu fill up" it), the serpent (Xiao Li's fans know), drums, can count more than ten kinds of counting the great. So for a broad overview of ancient Chinese musical instruments, you should definitely read The Beauty of Ancient Music. After all, there's really not much you can learn from ancient theater, except for waiyas and long shirts.

The Beauty of Ancient Music

, with popular text, beautiful writing, systematic combing of knowledge of ancient musical instruments, combined with real archaeological materials, rich historical documents, hook sinking to explore the ghosts, with the ancient and simple hand-drawn illustrations, is really an excellent popularization of the history of Chinese music. 2016, "China's good books" focus on In 2016, "China's Good Books" was highlighted as a key recommendation.

Author Su Hongyue is a scholar and writer from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He studied at the Nanjing Arts Institute, majoring in fashion design, and at the Department of Philosophy, Peking University, majoring in Chinese aesthetics. His main research interests include ancient Chinese art and Chinese Buddhism. Even without looking at the photo, from the text alone, one can imagine that this is a talented Jiangnan woman full of classical flavor.

The Beauty of Ancient Music is based on the eight-tone classification of ancient Chinese musical instruments according to different materials used in their production: "gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, lagenaria, bamboo". From the aspects of musical instrument form, historical background, manufacturing process, literature and art, and in conjunction with heaven, earth, human nature, and the five elements and festivals, it talks about the development of the origin of the ancient Chinese musical instruments and their The book is a great example of how the Chinese musical instruments can be used in aesthetics.

Let's take a look at the ancient poems to find the traces of ancient musical instruments.

Drums are probably the earliest musical instruments of mankind. The Yellow Emperor fought Chi You at Zhuo Deer, and the drums were made of Kui leather, which vibrated for 3,800 miles, and the mountains collapsed. "Poetry" cloud: "Alligator drum Feng Feng", this "Feng Feng" sound, whether it is the sound of crocodile sound, or crocodile drum sound, I'm afraid it is both. "Haze two wheels and tie up four horses, aid jade Quercus and hit the drums", "Battle in the morning with the golden drums, sleep in the night with the jade saddle", "Fishing sun drums to move the ground, breaking the neon dress and plumage song." The sound of leather drums and thunder spirit, in the battlefield killing, more shocking.

Ancient legend, Fuxi cut Wu zither, there may be attached, but the piano does have a long history, before the Shang Zhou, there has been the qin and serpent. Pre-Qin has a high mountain and flowing water will know the voice, Wei Jin has Jik Kang's "Guangling San", passed to the later generations, whether "for me a wave of hand, such as listening to ten thousand ravines pine", or "hand send seven strings of tung, eye to send the return of Hong", the piano is the standard of the nobleman and elegant scholar.

The first player of the game, the legend says, is the first to play the Thayer of the Yellow Emperor when the female musician Su female, later than the Fuxi qin system. The zither began with five strings, while the serpent was less than eighteen strings. From the basic law of technological development from simple to complex, the zither should have been introduced earlier than the serpent. The sound is clear and the afterglow is timeless. "The qin and the serpent are in the royal court, there is nothing that is not quiet and good", "the golden serpent has fifty strings, one string and one column thinking of Chinese years", the serpent from the ancient ceremonial instrument into a folk musical instrument, it seems to be more entangled with the male and female love intertwined. The most cultural song is Qian Qi of the Tang Dynasty, who was awarded a bachelor's degree with a song titled "Xiang Ling Drums the Thistle for the Provincial Examination". Generally speaking, the college entrance examination proposition essay can seldom become a writer's masterpiece, similarly, the imperial examination examination poem can rarely represent the real level of the Tang Dynasty poets, but Qian Qi this song can definitely represent his own highest level, "the end of the song people do not see, the river several peaks of the green" sentence, the aftermath of the sound curls up, a thousand years never stop.

The origin of the xiao can be traced back to the bone flute 9,000 years ago, to the Sui and Tang dynasties basic molding, the sound of quiet and elegant, "such as complaints such as adoration, such as sobbing as complaining," the quality of its sound logically determines that it is with the pursuit of adoration, the feelings of the ghost of the inextricably linked. "Twenty-four bridges under the bright moon, where does the Jade Man teach the blowjob", how charming and elegant, but also reveals a faint melancholy. "The sound of the piper's voice, the Qin E dream broken Qin Lou Yue", write all the mountains and rivers broken, stormy bleak.

"The beauty of ancient music" where sixty kinds of musical instruments, can not be described one by one, the case of the pillow, savor the flavor, both up posture, but also add elegance, the joy of life!

The Beauty of Ancient Music