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Recently, the live broadcast of a post-90s girl chanting the guqin attracted many "bosom friends". The Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter learned that the girl's name is Wang Yi, who has been learning guqin since she was a child, and because of her interest and love, she chose to major in ancient literature from English interdisciplinary when she was admitted to graduate school. Through the combination of guqin and chanting, the guqin interprets the new rhyme of ancient poems, and at present, Wang Yi has created guqin recitation tunes for more than 30 ancient poems. Every night, she helps netizens decompress and relax with her leisurely and elegant poetic voice, and a takeaway brother comes to her live broadcast room to seek relief.
The girl broadcasts the guqin chanting live every night
Accept the "order" to comfort netizens
At half past 10 in the evening, Wang Yi started a live broadcast on his Douyin account. Each live broadcast usually lasts two to three hours, and she always appears in a Hanfu, sometimes with red walls and green tiles in the background, sometimes mountains and rivers, in addition to playing the guqin, fans are more looking forward to her recitation of ancient poems accompanied by the guqin playing.
The leisurely and quaint chanting of poetry brought a unique experience to fans, and also made her live broadcast room unique. Many viewers were exposed to guqin chanting for the first time during her live broadcast, and some said that even if they stopped here, they could feel a moment of peace brought by the sound of the qin and chanting.
"The music that is played live every night is both ancient and modern. The more popular traditional ancient song is "Plum Blossom Three Alleys", and the modern songs "Listening to the Rain in the Mid-Mountains" and "Returning" are also very popular, especially the recitation of poems such as "Slow Voice", "A Cut of Plums", "Fixing the Storm", etc., which are also very popular with everyone. Wang Yi told the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter.
Wang Yi in the live broadcast
Since 2021, Wang Yi has tried to bring guqin chanting into the live broadcast, and in 2022, he began to fix the live broadcast time every night. "The reason why I chose to broadcast the live broadcast around 10:30 p.m. is because this is the time when many people are ready to rest, and the guqin tunes and chanting can help everyone relieve the fatigue of the day and accompany them to sleep. ”
In addition to the tracks prepared by himself, Wang Yi will also accept "orders" from netizens in the live broadcast. She said, "Some friends have fallen out of love, and some friends may feel that life is stressful and has been hard recently, so they will leave a message in my live broadcast room." Whenever I see these messages, I choose the right chanting content and comfort them with the sound of the piano and the chanting. ”
Among Wang Yi's fans, there are elderly people in their 70s and children under 10 years old, among which there are two delivery brothers who have left a deep impression on her. These two takeaway guys will enter her live broadcast room in between food deliveries, "They often order soothing tunes such as "Yunshui Zen Heart", they always listen quietly, and rarely talk about their hard work in the live broadcast room, only occasionally leaving words such as 'I'm going to leave again' and 'I'll listen to it when I come back from delivering food'." I can feel that they want to use the sound of the piano to soothe their emotions at work. These takeaway guys are very difficult, they are on the road every day, and I think it is worth it to be able to get acquainted with them like this and bring them some little comfort. ”
Today, Wang Yi has 120,000 followers on the Douyin platform, and she calls her fans "bosom friends". She told the Yangtze Evening News Purple Cow News reporter that guqin and chanting are unpopular and niche categories, and she never thought that she could have so many friends who recognized her. Everyone's praise and interaction, gift and reward are recognition and affirmation for her, as well as support and encouragement for her to continue to research and disseminate.
Because I love interdisciplinary postgraduate examinations
He has composed music for more than 30 ancient poems
Since childhood, Wang Yi has been exposed to traditional Chinese musical instruments. She began learning guzheng at the age of 5 and guqin at the age of 10, and the seeds of her love for traditional classical culture took root in her heart.
When Wang Yi was in her junior year, she became attached to guqin chanting, and it was her later graduate tutor who introduced her to the school. At that time, as the president of the school's guqin club, Wang Yi was found by this teacher and asked her to help play the soundtrack for the chanting. In the cooperation again and again, she felt the charm of the combination of guqin and chanting, and began to try to learn guqin chanting.
Wang Yi plays the guqin
Wang Yi admitted that she didn't know what chanting was at first, only that "she could sing while playing the piano", and in her later studies, she gradually learned that guqin chanting has been inherited since ancient times and has traces to follow. She said, "'Three hundred poems, all strings and songs', guqin recitation is a way for the ancients to express their mood and self-cultivation; now, through guqin recitation, people can slow down their fast-paced life, and let people perceive more music, art, pictures and the beauty of the scene." ”
With the study and understanding of guqin recitation, Wang Yi began to try to compose guqin recitation tunes by himself, and now he has created more than 30 corresponding tunes for word cards such as "Shengsheng Slow" and "Fixing the Storm".
She told reporters that when creating, it is necessary to start with the artistic conception of ancient poems, and then match the rules of traditional chanting, and determine the direction of the melody according to the staggered pitch of the chanting, the length and the speed of the chanting. Then, combined with their own understanding, after scrutiny and polishing, they finally form a chanting tune corresponding to the poem. Sometimes, she will also "improvise" according to the content of the poem, of course, this is also a process of practice makes perfect, after years of hard work, now she can do it "easily".
In his daily life, in addition to playing the guqin and reciting poetry, Wang Yi also likes to read, taste tea and climb mountains. "I still prefer traditional culture, and guqin chanting is now integrated into all aspects of my life, and sometimes I will recite a few lines of poetry when I go on mountain excursions or enjoy tea and piano, and I enjoy this process very much. ”
Go to many places to collect the old man's chanting
Try to integrate the ancient and modern to "revitalize" traditional culture
The guqin is the most noble musical instrument in Chinese culture, ranking first among the four arts, with a history of more than 3,000 years, while chanting is an excellent intangible cultural heritage of the mainland, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. However, with the development of society, these two valuable cultural heritages once came to the brink of being forgotten.
During his graduate studies, Wang Yi began to participate in guqin recitation, lectures, and compilation of textbooks with his tutor. In particular, in order to collect chanting tunes that have been handed down in history, she followed her tutor to many places at home and abroad to collect, and has gone to Japan, South Korea, Shandong, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Shijiazhuang and other places in China to collect.
Wang Yi plays the guqin
In the process, she and her mentor interviewed more than a dozen elderly people who were in their eighties and nineties and had studied private schools as children. In Japan and South Korea, some chanting methods and rules of ancient mainland China have also been inherited.
In the interview, Wang Yi made a special appeal that now more and more old people who can chant have passed away one after another, and time is very urgent.
As for her future plans, Wang Yi told the Yangtze Evening News reporter that she is currently considering stepping out of her room and going outdoors for a live broadcast, "maybe on the mountain or by the spring", to share with everyone the experience of chanting the guqin into the scenery.
"The development of the Internet has helped to spread niche culture, and I am touched that more and more young people are now starting to pick up the national trend again," she said, adding that she is ready to try to integrate the ancient and modern in her creation, making it more in line with the current mood of people, so that the traditional culture of guqin chanting can be recognized by more people.
Intern|Zhao Yitong
Purple Cow News Reporter |
Editor|Wan Chengyuan
Editing|Wan Huijuan
Editor-in-Chief|Chen Dichen
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