What kind of day is it?
Let the 80-year-old squad leader revolve around the child for 9 years
And enjoy it every day
What kind of charm is it?
Let a group of children not play with their phones during the holidays
Take the initiative to surround the old man
Happy tricks, tips for bringing babies
Today, Xiaohua will reveal it to everyone!
Continuously enriching the "skill package" of folk music
Dongfu Town, Liling City, Wangtouzhou
The green banks of the Lushui River
An old man with a dozen children
Gather around the sea of flowers in the fields paved with milk vetch
The curtain is on the ground
They sing freely in nature
There are more than a dozen kinds of sheng, sanxian, pipa, zhongruan, etc
Traditional Chinese musical instruments are played in unison
"Liuyang River" sounded in the field
Beautiful and cheerful melody
The picture shows Li Shuyou taking the children to learn music. Photo by Shin Ji-lin
This is Li Shuyou, an 80-year-old retired soldier this year
and the students of "Shu Yu Le Fang".
Li Shuyou learned the huqin and bamboo flute at the age of 7
Learn to sing local operas
In 1963, he enlisted in the army
Become a literary soldier
In the army, Li Shuyou learned to play
There are several traditional musical instruments such as sheng, ruan, and sanxian
After retiring, he entered the Liling Flower Drum Theater Troupe
Continue to enrich your own folk music "skill pack"
There are more than a dozen musical instruments in total
Li Shuyou recalled his past in the army. The one who plays the three strings in the photo is him when he was young. Photo by Guo Liliang
In 2015, when he returned to his hometown, he found out
Compared to urban areas
Rural cultural life is relatively poor
Compared to adults
The cultural life of left-behind children has become even more monotonous
"How can you let these kids
Get rid of the state of 'never leaving your phone'?"
Li Shuyou thought
"It's better to teach children music!"
The children walked on the fields with their beloved musical instruments and to the cheerful beat. Photo by Guo Liliang
The "Country Music Class" has been uninterrupted for 9 years
With this idea
Li Shuyou returned to Wangtouzhou Village
Renovated his old house out of his own pocket
Buy folk musical instruments
Built a room that can be accommodated
"Music Classroom" for more than 30 students
The story of "the spring of the cattle herding class" begins
Every Saturday and Sunday and winter and summer vacation
A series of beautiful folk music performances came from the old street
The Orchestra has become the most wonderful classroom in the countryside
Elder Li Shuyou instructed the children to practice playing folk music in the classroom. Photo by Guo Liliang
At the beginning of the lesson, only three or four children came to Le Fang
Some villagers suspect that the free teaching is a gimmick
There will be a fee at a later stage
Some villagers were worried that he was just a momentary enthusiast
It is difficult to stick to it for a long time
Facing skepticism
Li Shuyou chose to teach a child first
Take her to the countryside every week to perform
After some time
The villagers saw it in their eyes and remembered it in their hearts
Gradually, I took the initiative to send the child
Parents are very relieved to see their children practicing. Photo by Guo Liliang
In 2019, Li Shuyou was established
Liling Children's National Orchestra
It is composed of more than 60 "village children".
A debriefing performance that year
Make the orchestra famous
With more and more people
One class can't fit in
Li Shuyou had to adjust the class again and again
There are many local primary and secondary schools
Li Shuyou was also invited to the school for a fixed start
Li Shuyou (first from right) gives a lesson to students at Shuyou Music Workshop in Wangtouzhou Village. Photo by Xue Yuge
At present, Li Shuyou's public welfare class
It has been expanded to 2 local elementary schools and 1 middle school
The teaching of folk music has emerged in local campuses
"Over the years, I've come to the music place
There are more than 160 children who have been studying music for a long time
Most of them are left-behind children. ”
Some children have been in school for seven or eight years
Not only admitted to key middle schools
Some have even been admitted to professional conservatories
What is taught is folk music, and it is also the principle of being a human being
In rural areas, some parents are not good at communicating with their children
It is also not very clear how to guide children's development
Come to Shu Yu Le Fang
Children don't just get a music education
Feel the companionship more
"I teach music, and I teach the art of playing
He also teaches the truth of being a human being. ”
Li Shuyou said
The old man Li Shuyou taught the children to play the sheng by hand. Photo by Guo Liliang
In the music square, Li Shuyou will be based
Children's hobbies
and physical and mental characteristics to carry out teaching
Some children are not very focused
He played with the children and made pictures
Mobilize their emotions
Some children don't understand
The melodic beauty and artistic conception of music
He started with the nature and humanity behind the music
Open the door to the world of art for them
In between studies, the children decorate their musical instruments with weeds. Photo by Guo Liliang
Someone asked Li Shuyou
"Teach music to children for so many years for free
What are you trying to do?"
"It's a little smaller
It is to enrich the cultural life of children
Make their childhood more fun
Bigger
It is the inheritance of excellent traditional Chinese culture. ”
Li Shuyou, who is already in his old age
Still having fun
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