Located in the southern suburbs of Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, the Small Wild Goose Pagoda, also known as the "Jianfu Temple Pagoda", was built during the Tang Jinglong period and belonged to the Tang Chang'an City AnRenFang, which is an important symbol preserved by Tang Chang'an City and the Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
Zhanfu Temple was the imperial temple of the Tang Dynasty and a famous Zen monastery at that time. At that time, the abbot, Master Yijing, was the second Tang Dynasty monk to "learn the scriptures from the West" after Master Xuanzang.
More than a thousand years ago, Master Yijing was practicing dharma propagation and translating Buddhist scriptures in the abbot's hall of The Temple. About four-sevenths of the Buddhist scriptures from India were translated into Chinese by the team led by Master Yijing, and today, the Chang'an ancient music performances staged in the Abbot's Hall have become an important place to inherit traditional Chinese music and culture.
The "Silk Road" World Cultural Heritage Project jointly applied for by China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan is the "Road Network of the Chang'an-Tianshan Corridor".
The project has 22 sites in China and 7 in Shaanxi Province. One of the most important of these is the ruins of Tang Temple. The "Three Tang Dynasty Culture" here is the "Tang Temple", "Tang Pagoda", and "Tang Chuan Chang'an Ancient Music".
Tang Temple, is the Tang Dynasty royal temple Offiku Temple. Tang Pagoda, is the Pagoda of Zhanfu Temple, commonly known as the Small Wild Goose Pagoda.
Tang Chuan Chang'an Ancient Music is the only intangible cultural heritage in this heritage project to be included in the "Silk Road" World Cultural Heritage, and has been praised by the world music community, historical archaeology and cultural tourism circles as "World Music Living Fossil", "Shaanxi Millennium Living Cultural Relics" and "Han and Tang Dynasty Relics Original Ecology".
Tang Chuan Chang'an Ancient Music uses the 6 core elements of ancient Chinese musical culture to perform the Chinese Han and Tang court symphonies. These 6 core elements of ancient musical culture are: Tang Music Law, Tang Music Tune, Tang Music, Tang Music Score, Tang Musical Instrument and Tang Music Style.
The Chang'an Ancient Music Society, known as the "Umbrella Fang Erxiang Music Society" in the Tang Dynasty, the Yu 'Leshoutang" Music Society in the Qing Dynasty, and the "Xi'an Buddhist Ancient Music Society" during the Republic of China period.
In recent years, under the supervision and support of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Shaanxi Province, a private non-enterprise institution has been established: the Shaanxi Ancient Music Culture Research Institute. Dr. Li Jiao, the president of the hospital, is the fourth generation of closed disciples and leaders of Yu's "LeshouTang" in the past 200 years, and is also the representative inheritor of the "Silk Road" world cultural heritage Chang'an Ancient Music.
In the process of more than two thousand years of inheritance of Chang'an ancient music, one note did not dare to change, one beat did not dare to change, and one instrument did not dare to change, thus maintaining the original ecological reproduction of ancient Chinese court symphony.
From the ancient Chinese Book of Poetry to the Han Le Fu and Tang Poems, Chinese poetry could have been sung along with the song. It is only because of the loss of ancient notation that it has led to the weakness of "no score" and "unreliable" musical culture, and poetry has now become poetry recitation.
Fortunately, Chang'an Ancient Music has ecologically preserved more than 2,500 ancient scores for the Chinese nation, including famous songs of the Han and Tang dynasties, ancient music scores from countries and nationalities along the "Silk Road" that were transmitted to Chang'an, and some ancient scores of the Book of Poetry, han le fu and Tang poems.
The essence of the inheritance of Chang'an culture, the most grounded is Tangfu, Tang cuisine, Tang Le. The custom of food culture in the Tang Dynasty is to call the people's common meals "eating", called "rice" when there is meat, called "wine banquet" when there is wine and meat, and call it "banquet" when there is meat, wine, song, dance, and music. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty feasted on hundreds of officials in the imperial palace, and at that time he played a feast.
In the old days, court music performances can be enjoyed at any time by today, and in the Xiaoyan Pagoda Scenic Area of Xi'an, the "Chang'an Ancient Music Silk Road Intangible Cultural Tourism Concert" can be enjoyed almost every day.
During the "2021 China-ASEAN Expo Tourism Exhibition", the China Cultural Relics Society and the China Cultural Relics Newspaper jointly held the release ceremony of the "2021 National Top 100 Cases of Cultural Heritage Tourism", and the "Chang'an Gule Silk Road Intangible Cultural Tourism Concert" project declared by the Xi'an Museum was successfully selected.
This is the first time that the intangible cultural heritage theme tourism projects of Shaanxi Province and Xi'an City have won the national selection, and it is also a historic breakthrough in the boutique tourism and performing arts projects established by the Xi'an Museum to establish national standards.
Since July 31, 2019, under the circumstance that the well-known impact has interrupted the performance several times, the normalized performance of the "Chang'an Gule Silk Road Cultural Tourism Concert" has still operated for 12 months across two years, with a total of more than 2,000 performances, a total of more than 30,000 Chinese and foreign tourists and audiences, and a total operating income of more than 1 million yuan.
The praise and comments of Chinese and foreign tourists and audiences have been written in 6 large books, and have received the attention of more than 100 countries and regions and more than 100 central, provincial and municipal mainstream media, online media, television stations, radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and online self-media, and more than 500 news news, special topics, interviews, and reviews.
In the future, the Chang'an Ancient Music Silk Road Cultural Tourism Concert performance will still be staged under the Small Wild Goose Pagoda every day, no matter the wind and rain, no matter how many people are small, just so that the world can enjoy this artistic performance that has gone through a thousand years at any time, just like the Small Wild Goose Pagoda that has gone through thousands of years of wind and rain, it has always stood, if you come to the ancient city of Xi'an, you may wish to enjoy the charm of the ancient music of Chang'an Ancient Music.