The old city box came a pleasant "rural sound" Yuyuan Jiangnan Silk Bamboo Concert was staged for the first time

Photo: Jiangnan Silk Bamboo New Year Concert in Yuyuan Sea Pear Garden Xinxin Evening News reporter Zhou Xin /photo

Xinmin Evening News (reporter Yang Yuhong) The lights are gradually rising, the melody is slowly flowing, and a song "Caiyun Chasing the Moon" kicks off the prelude to this intangible cultural heritage New Year concert. On the evening of January 28th, the Jiangnan Silk Bamboo New Year Concert was held in the Yuyuan Garden Sea Pear Garden, a series of pleasant silk bamboo songs, sending Shanghai citizens the "rural sound" of the New Year and good wishes for the Year of the Tiger.

As soon as the concert began, the atmosphere was ignited by "Caiyun Chasing the Moon", which had both Chinese national melodies and Western rhythmic sounds, and the "Yao Dance" heard by the audience was originally a Western orchestral piece, and now it has been adapted into the interpretation of Jiangnan silk bamboo, which has a different flavor.

The average age of the new team members who play these songs is 10 years old, and each of them has 2-3 instruments, and almost every piece of music is completed, the band members have to adjust their seats and change their instruments, which is amazing. They played "Caiyun Chasing the Moon", "Yao Dance", "Flower Good Moon", "Happy Weaver", "Old Six Plate Golden Snake Dance" and other songs in turn. "When played slowly, the sound is like a mountain spring with a ding-dong; when it is fast, the sound is like babbling water... I have been studying the dulcimer for three years and found that it is a magical instrument," 10-year-old Dong Miaoke, a yangqin player, recalled, entering the primary school to participate in the school's folk music interest class, contact and learn the dulcimer playing, and participating in the performance in the spare time can not only exercise their courage, meet new friends, and introduce instruments such as the yangqin to more people.

The second half of the concert was the home of the Huxin pavilion silk bamboo music club, and the average age of the club members was 70 years old. "Three Six", one of the eight major songs of Jiangnan Silk Bamboo, pushed the performance atmosphere to a climax. That night, the classic song "Liang Zhu", which is familiar to the audience, was also adapted into a version of Jiangnan Silk Bamboo, which is endlessly evocative. As the finale track, the slow board of "Walking Street" is light and beautiful, and the allegro is warm and cheerful, which perfectly presents the thick old city life. "The concert made us experience the artistic taste of 'the big strings are noisy like a rushing rain, and the small strings are like whispers'." Citizen Ms. Mei did not want to leave the scene for a long time after watching, and the silk bamboo was pleasant to the ear, and the beauty of Jiangnan culture was fully displayed by one string and one pillar, one pick and one stroke.

"Every show is unique." Hou Gensheng, an 84-year-old plucked music player, introduced that Jiangnan Silk Bamboo pays attention to your complexity and simplicity, you are high and low, and in each performance, the players need to improvise according to the scene situation, and this tacit understanding of mutual humility and improvisation and innovation is vividly displayed. It is understood that most of the members of the Huxin Pavilion Music Club come from the silk bamboo family, which has been inherited from generation to generation and has been immersed in silk bamboo music for decades, with profound heritage. Several members of the orchestra are representative inheritors of Jiangnan silk bamboo, enjoying a high reputation at home and abroad and have a certain influence.

As a non-genetic inheritance window of Jiangnan culture, Yuyuan Mall has always been committed to the experience and inheritance of intangible cultural heritage skills. This year, the Yuyuan Garden New Year series is the main theme of "Shanghai old taste, intangible cultural heritage new experience", turning Yuyuan Mall into a living museum of intangible cultural heritage. As a characteristic folk ensemble music in Shanghai, Jiangnan silk bamboo has been popular in Shanghai for more than 300 years, and was once a symbol representing the "rural sound" of Shanghai and Jiangnan regions, and was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list in the mainland in 2006.

It is reported that starting this year, Yuyuan Mall will also join hands with Huxinting Silk Bamboo Society to hold the Jiangnan Silk Bamboo Competition every year, and set up a new seedling inheritance award to pass on the intangible cultural skills and make this very iconic music of Shanghai culture come alive at Shanghai cultural landmarks.