Teacher Zhang Hongyan is a well-known music scholar and pipa performance artist, pipa player, educator and pipa master at home and abroad.
Looking at her state, there is a very quiet feeling, and playing this instrument should be quiet, but she is very busy, how can she do it, in fact, busy is a kind of possible surface, it seems to be a rhythm of doing things, so including us on stage, it seems to be very glamorous, so at that moment a kind of brilliance, but that is like saying, ten years of work off the stage, ten minutes on stage, you look at its proportion, so you know this kind of explosion in an instant, then in fact, the most important, It's the ten-year work off the stage, if you think about it, if a person says that he wants to express this state at that moment, it takes a long time for him to work off the stage, and at that time it is all done by one person, quietly completed by one person, in fact, at the moment on the stage, you see a person playing in a state, as if he is dynamic, full of dynamics, but he is actually the inner thing, he presented to him this moment, completely returned to a time that he was prepared for. So at that moment, I really enjoy the moment of the stage, of course, behind the moment of the stage, is what you said quietly, very lonely, a lonely journey, but he must be like this, it may be that the more lonely and quiet, the more you can prepare this thing. It is the heart-to-heart communication, which is particularly accurate at this level of music, because only music is directed at the hearts of the people, and I believe that including opera actors, including singers, singers, performers, etc., he has to have a process of tempering, that is, the expression of one of his tones, his words and singing, he must be tempered, so no matter what happens at that moment, he may open his mouth to reach his best state, this is a kind of training, but also a kind of practice, cultivation. I think that in fact, now we are speaking according to experience, in fact, any kind of hand can play, and you can play it is very good, my own experience, I found that it is a bit like the concept of the mean, the so-called means that everything is suitable, just right, that's it, for example, long, that is, not long or short, not fat or thin, not soft or hard, it is exactly the right time for it. Of course, we have a lot of training methods now, so that some of the softer hands can stand up and practice and so on. The hand, I think it's actually a kind of sound that makes the hand your voice, that is, you have a lot of ways to use it as a sound of your voice, you have your means, and then in fact, the pipa is practice, that is, there are some good ways to practice, how can you control these instruments, and use your hands to control these instruments. The pipa is a beautiful instrument, it is a piece, I think it can be embraced, very light, right, such a state of musical instruments, finished like a lady, inserted with this hosta, such a lady, this feeling, but the pipa is not to say, it looks like a very female instrument, visually you think it is very beautiful, always seem to put it together with Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", so I always feel that women, you must know that in your teacher's generation, all men sing pipa, So why is it this musical instrument in fact it is a musical instrument of both civil and military, it can be said to be in and out of the elegant and vulgar, both civil and military, the most beautiful, I think on behalf of China's most beautiful music, you can say that "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night", "Spring River Flower Moonlight Night" turned out to be "Sunset Drum", so what "Xunyang Pipa", as well as "Flying Flowers and Cui", "Big Waves and Sands", "Plugged Song", "Moon Height", "Cold Sparrow Fighting for Plum" What, just listen to these, it is not from ordinary people, right, it is related to culture, Including related to traditional culture, then it seems to be the product of the literati, then if we take the most imposing work in China, "Ambush on All Sides" is incomparable, there is no second one, and it may be the most influential and famous in this work in China, and it may also be "Ambush on All Sides". And it's historical, it's historical, it's about the period of 202 B.C., and then it's been passed down for hundreds of years.
The pipa is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, when she takes it to the world to play, what does she think they feel, can they feel the vast kind of our cultural background behind it, of course, I think first, it can be said that they are particularly shocked, for example, we often say, we want to come out of new things, what is the modernity we want to pursue, we have been following the pace of this modernity, then you can imagine when you go abroad, such as playing "Overlord Removing Armor" , playing "Ambush on All Sides", they all thought it was a modern work, that is, something modern, and it was a bit overwhelming. We always think about talking about traditional things, that is, small jasper, etc., I seem to have this kind of expression in my heart, this thing is rushing to the face, all of a sudden, you have to take it if you don't take it, it's such a feeling; Also, in the process of this technique, he will think, how can there be such a rich technique. In fact, national music is really something that Chinese like, because it is this in its bones, it is your own, what is it, once you listen to it, it has a natural, and your heart fits something, it is in the blood of the bones, so that melody comes together, that is naturally your thing. How old was she when she first saw the pipa for the first time, seven years old, what did it feel like, since she was a child, she was very young, and her father played the pipa. I felt that this was too heavy, too small, I was seven years old when I learned, too heavy, when the piano was put on myself, I was basically not able to hold it, my father gave it to me, it was my father's piano, so he used one, made a hook on the ceiling, and then hung a rope, hung the piano, and he could hold it, so he started to learn in this way. Anyway, I hung up, I guess I hung up for a while, in fact, I was confused, anyway, at that time, I started to learn, and everyone else came to our house, just like watching a monkey look at that, I thought it was too strange, and what was used in this way, my father was very smart, he could think of a way, because he couldn't help himself, in this way, how could he let himself be able to hold the piano, there was no small piano at that time, his father chose for himself, it seemed to be very cruel in that era, Because he is very strict, cruel, other people go out to play, children go out to play every day, you have to hold the piano and practice. As a child, how did she survive this paragraph, what is her philosophy, she listens to people every day to play, she thinks it's this, she thinks I'm miserable, why am I like this, but it's that I'm forced by the majesty of my father, my father is very powerful, and if I can't do it, I'll fight, so I'm very scared, and I have to do this, so I do this, but you know, when I get older, all these children envy themselves, it's the reward for paying, That's really what it looks like, so you see if you're thinking, when I'm mentally sound, when I can do it, when I have some plans for my own future, but at that time, if I choose, can I still have time to do this, it's too late, and I think it's definitely good for a child when I'm young, when my parents are forcing me to do something, that is, to cultivate a kind of willpower, we said, if a person learns music, this child, such as Lang Lang, He can practice with this kind of energy every day, and if he can do this, you say that he can't do anything, right, when he turns to doing something else with such things, he can succeed just as well. If you really want to go to the heart, it's completely different, so you can see that the attraction of the ear can be very keen, but you can very regretfully say that our ears are getting worse and worse, that is, the loss of ability, the loss of ability is because of its top, because I don't know how to pursue this, and I don't pay attention to this, I do my own summer camp, I only write a sentence, I say that I hope to be able to cultivate a good pair of ears in this process, and benefit for life, because of the ear hearing things, Good music can save a person, bad music can kill people, it's not an exaggeration at all, it's just that it makes you uneasy, when the music is not good, sometimes you don't think about it because of this, and sometimes you think in your heart, why do I think I'm willing to do this kind of popularization, and I'm willing to take the trouble to do it, and I just stick to this, because I know his heart and his this, he has this kind of beauty, sublime elegance, right, this aspect of this, he has not been awakenedIn fact, he seems to be like this in his heart, and it has nothing to do with this in his life, but he thinks for himself, if he comes into the concert hall, if he catches up with his own concert, he must let him feel, maybe this time in his life.
I don't think about it so much, in fact, I just want to be a walker, a pipa walker, that is, you can carry such a heavy one, it can be said to be an excellent heritage of China, you can carry it to meet friends with the piano, to cooperate with these people in the world, to let them know China, from this instrument, and then I feel that sometimes, I am not very important, so today I have such an opportunity to go to Carnegie, to the best music stage in the world, It's really a kind of progress in China, the whole to today, so that musicians can have a voice, can communicate, on the same platform, so I feel that I don't think too much, the purpose of my life, how I want to become, get my glory, and I will never be a master, I feel that the current master, I am determined to follow the master, can not be with the current master, I am a pipa walker, I will be one by one, I will treat this art one by one, and then I will be on this international stage, Every time he wholeheartedly cooperates with this kind of platform, let them say, they say that you have changed your life, and you want to have more of these, because of the pipa, let him have respect for Chinese culture, because of the pipa music, let him change, is a lot of views on China's past.