Ancient Youzi Period Boya "Mountain Flowing Water", Qintai meets Zhiyin.
Use the metaphor of "Qinse and Ming" to make harmony between husband and wife, warm and happy.
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the violinist drum and piano could attract hundreds of birds to fight and a hundred animals to celebrate.
The ancients' awareness and perception of the rhythm reached a level that we could not imagine.
In the history of China's thousands of years of cultural development, what position does music occupy? What are the stories of ancient musical instruments such as the qin and the ser? Let's talk about ancient music.
At the Hemudu site in Zhejiang, 160 bone whistles have been excavated.
Primitive people blew these bone whistles to attract birds and then shoot them.
That is to say, as early as 7,000 years ago, people already knew how to recognize and use musical rhythms.
In Henan, primitive people have also found scale sound emitters made of thick bones on eagle wings.
It is the predecessor of the famous ancient wind instruments - flute and flute.
Nowadays, there is a popular saying to distinguish the flute pipe: horizontal flute vertical flute blowing pipe.
But in ancient times, especially before the Han Dynasty, flutes were inseparable from each other.
When Zhang Qian of the Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the Western Regions, the flute he brought back was blown horizontally.
After that, the original vertical blowing instrument was called a harp.
At this time, the flute and the flute have a clear difference in sound.
The flute is crisp, like the cheerful birdsong of the morning; the whistle is melodious, like the shadowless breeze of the moon and night.
If the two are played together, the resulting natural sound is like stepping into a fairyland, which makes people feel relaxed.
There are many kinds of ancient musical instruments in the mainland, in addition to the flute, the most famous is the qin.
What is the origin of the piano?
In primitive societies, bows and arrows were invented as hunting tools, and over time, when bow strings were discovered, they would make sounds.
Thus, the bowstring became the ancestor of the piano.
In the 5,000-year history of the development of civilization on the mainland, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the "Axial Age".
During this period, not only a large number of thinkers emerged, such as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi and so on.
There was also a great boom in music, most notably in piano skills.
According to the "Ten Records of History", "Shi Kuang drums and pianos, and knows the gods." Shi Kuang once played "Qing Hui, one song, there are Xuan Cranes two in"; re-played, "and column"; three songs, "Extend the collar and sing, Shu wing and dance"..."
Yu Boya's "Flowing Water in The Mountains", Jin Jikang's "Guangling San", and other popular songs throughout the ages were all produced in this period.
The "Customs and Customs" lists the seven-stringed violin as the first of the top ten instruments.
Praise it for being "medium in size and harmonious in sound, loud and not noisy but flowing, quiet in not annihilated and not heard." ”
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, people had an in-depth study of the piano.
According to the Eastern Han Dynasty Wang Chong's "On Balance", "The sky will rain, and the strings will slow down." ”
This means that when it rains and the air is humid, the strings become longer due to the inhalation of moisture, and the sound of the piano changes.
On the guqin excavated from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty on the mainland, thirteen small round stars made of screws were found.
What are they for?
According to expert research, these are the "emblems" used to mark the position of the "overtone" on the guqin.
That is to say, more than two thousand years ago, people had a deep understanding of the knowledge of harmony in physics and harmony in musicology.
Developing into the Song Dynasty, the famous scientist Shen Kuo elaborated on the sound transmission of the guqin from the perspective of physics, and put forward the famous view that "all have seven tones".
When I wrote this, I had to deeply admire the rich wisdom of the ancients and the long history and culture of the mainland.
Compared with the new instruments such as pianos and violins imported from the West, ancient instruments on the mainland have distinct national characteristics.
Chinese and Western cultures are combined, and all the instruments played in the Golden Vienna Hall are like composing a poem of cultural convergence from ancient times to the present.
Its brilliance and magnificence have shocked all mankind!
[References: "History of the Ten Passes", "On Balance", "Customs and Customs"]