Author/Jingxin Lao Bo
even. Baoligao was born in 1944 on the 2nd day of the lunar calendar on the day of the dragon's head. Mongolians, the representative inheritors of the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage Mongolian horse head qin, world-class horse head qin masters. Engaged in the artistic creation of the horsehead piano for more than half a century, he has successfully reformed the bow strings, body and sound source of the traditional horsehead piano, unified its bow method and fingering playing method, and made the traditional national instrument of the horsehead qin rank among the world stage and shine. At present, more than 80% of the world's horsehead piano music is composed by him. Over the years, he has trained about 60,000 horsehead piano students through training courses and the establishment of the International Horsehead Piano School, all over the world, making outstanding contributions to the development of the national treasure horsehead piano art and the Chinese national music to the world. In 2009, he won the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Literature and Art Outstanding Contribution Award". ”
Green leaves grow in folk masters walking in the grasslands
"The horse's head is the only instrument in the world that has a head, and when it has a head, it has a soul, and with a soul, it is the instrument of God. So, for many years pulling around with it, I became it, and it became me "one by one." Baoli Gaoyu
On a hot summer day in the early 1960s, in the yurt community of the West Uzumuqin Banner Daqing Ranch with green grass and flowers, there was a sudden burst of cool and long, beautiful piano sounds like a natural sound, and I and a group of friends who were only ten years old at the time heard the sound and ran over. I saw a handsome-looking Mongolian youth with long hair in the wind sitting on the grass, surrounded by more than a hundred herders who had come to visit. The young man closed his eyes slightly, the fingers of his left hand slid up and down the strings, the other held a bow, and his right shoulder moved from side to side, and the deep and penetrating sound of the piano was like the ripples of the lake water circle after circle, rippling out and spreading to the boundless grassland around. That scene, the shock of the horse's head and the piano player when I first met when I was a teenager, the scene of the herdsmen listening to the piano with a pious look, I still remember it to this day, and from time to time it flashes to my mind, and flashes to the process of growing up. I later learned that his name was Qi. Baoligao, as a child, was once a small living Buddha in the Moli Temple, and gradually became a young violinist walking on the grassland. As long as he came to the pasture, it became a source of joy for our children and herders. Twenty years have passed, Qi. Baoligao has become a well-known master of the horse head piano in the country, and I just graduated from the writers' class of the normal university, and I did not expect that we would meet again in Hohhot. That day I went to the bank to withdraw money, the queue was very long, and suddenly, I was very surprised to find that a middle-aged man with a unique temperament and full of artistic style in front of me was actually the idol Qi in my memory. Baoligao, as a master, is actually like me, an ordinary person, there is no front-and-back assistant around him, but he silently queues up alone. I excitedly walked out of the queue to greet him, and after he thanked me, he talked to me happily, and I recalled to him the unforgettable old days in the Xilin Gol grassland. The master squinted his slender eyes and smiled, listening, and it was clear from his deep gaze that he was very happy about this "old man's encounter". Although his Chinese has a strong grassland flavor, it is humorous and approachable, maintaining the true color of a folk music master.
Legendary childhood experience Casually from the art road "his love for the horse head piano, like a primitive engine, always has surging vitality" one by one actor Haiqing
even. Baoligao grew up in the left wing of the Horqin Central Banner, and his father was a living Buddha in the Alaten Xiretu Temple in Fuxin. In 1947, the fourth living Buddha of the Tongliao Moli Temple passed away, and the three-year-old Qi Baoligao became a reincarnated spiritual child and was welcomed into the temple. When he first walked into the bedroom of the Fourth Living Buddha, he stared at the horse's head hanging on the wall, and pounced on it and hugged the case tightly, as if it were his old friend for many years. In the interview, he said: "I seem to have been born for music, and no matter what kind of music I have been in since I was a child, I can hum it when I listen to it. As soon as I see folk artists playing the piano, fiddling with it will pull it, which may be what talent is it? But this talent alone is not enough, you have to add hard work, by the age of 8, although you do not know the score, but according to the feeling can play dozens of folk songs with folk artists. "Qi. After being a living Buddha for three years, Baoligao returned home in 1950. Baoligao's ancestors were descendants of Genghis Khan's eldest son, Shuchi, who accompanied the Great Khan to the Qibazig steppe and established the Zibazig Khanate. So this family has been surnamed "Qi" for generations, to Qi. Polarigo is the 39th generation. even. Baoligao was born when his father was 53 years old, so he was called "Fifty-Three" according to local customs. Changed his name to Qi after school. Baoligao. Qi in school. Still passionate about music, He eventually became a professional player because of an interview he considered "casual." One day in October 1958, Qi qi was about to graduate from The Left Wing of Horqin Central Banner Road Lantaub Primary School. Polygon, who had always admired him, was called to the office by a teacher who had always admired him. In the house, two members of the family dressed in "foreign atmosphere" listened to him play the piano and sang a song, which he remembered singing "Blue Sky White Clouds Floating". After singing, one of the tall men wearing glasses and a red tie asked him, "Do you know the score?" He froze and asked, "What is spectrum recognition?" The tall man turned to the other and said, "You see he doesn't even know the score, can't he ask for it?" Then another said, "Is it difficult to know a score?" There is something remarkable, and you will learn it once you can't learn it. In a word, it was decided that the little "fifty-three", later became the famous Qi. The fate of Baoligao! It turned out that this hammered character was Meng He, the leader of the Inner Mongolia Experimental Theater Troupe. Since then, he began to professionally learn the artistic road of the horsehead piano, under the guidance of sangdu still, meiqige and other performers and composers, Qibao Lego's music theory and playing skills have been greatly improved, which has laid a solid foundation for the reform and innovation of his horsehead piano body and playing skills since the 1970s.
The Divine Comedy from the Grasslands", "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping", travels the world
"There is only one music in the world that finds strings from horseback, and that is the horse's head piano song" all at once. Baoligao
In 2008, at the music concert before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, the ensemble "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping" was magnificent, and this horsehead piano song that had been played for more than 30 years had already gone from Inner Mongolia to the world. When Baoligao was eighteen years old. A soul-shaking shock. In 1962, Qi, who had already become a professional performer of the Inner Mongolia Song and Dance Troupe, was already a professional player. Baoligao participates in Naadam, the left banner of Bahrain, where horse racing is the most spectacular scene. "That day, as soon as the gun was fired, hundreds of horses rushed out." even. Baoligao recalled: "Thirty minutes later, the first horse rushed to the finish line, the second horse arrived in 40 minutes, the third horse 50 minutes, the fourth horse for an hour, and the two horses who entered the finish line in the last hour and a half could not run, barely managed to reach the 70-mile finish line with a small red flag, and fell to their deaths." Two little riders hugged the horse's neck and cried, and the herders around them all cried, and I cried too. I cried because of how dignified and loyal these two horses were, and how they would rather run to their deaths than drive the little rider to the finish line. I suppose then I will write a song in praise of the horse, a song of the horseback people and the horse's head piano. "Since then this idea has been in Qi . Baoligao's heart took root, and he walked and sat thinking about how to turn his feelings into notes. But at that time, in addition to playing the piano, he had never composed music, and the difficulty could be imagined. After trying again and again to meet his requirements, he once retreated, when he thought of the parting instructions his mother had told him when he left his hometown. That day, the mother solemnly said to him: "Son, the mother said a word to you, if you want to become a real man, you must not live with yourself every day, always can not go, so that you can become a real man." Remember? "Qi. Baoligao nodded firmly, and his mother said, "A man breaks in, let's go." You don't have to do anything, you concentrate on playing the horsehead, if you pull the horsehead piano well, the mother's soul will 'whizz' into the sky, if you can't pull well, the mother will fall. You come back after you finish your studies, you can't come back after you learn, and your mother breaks your legs. "Remembering my mother's words, Qi. Baoligao was determined to start again, he would not write music, he pulled out his feelings with a horse's head piano, let people help write it down, just like this over and over again, over and over again, in 1962 the first draft of "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping" was completed, and then continuously revised in the performance, until seventeen years later, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the already very mature "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping" was performed throughout the country as a gift program, and suddenly became popular all over the country, winning the gold medal for performance and the silver medal for composition. After that, he created horse head piano songs such as "The Grassland Connects Beijing", "Two Horses of Genghis Khan", "Song dedicated to his mother", "The White Horse of Su He", "The Rising Sun", etc., and the horse head piano ensemble "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping", "Looking", and the quartet "Destiny" have long become world-class performance golden songs. He also made three scientific improvements to the horsehead from 1972 to 1982, which gave new life to the ancient horsehead piano, thus integrating the art of the horsehead into the international stage.
Inheritance, BMW soul into a piano rhyme flowing on the backbone of this nation
"I'm old and I need a succession of successors. --Qi. Baoligao
In order to make the art of the horsehead piano go to the world, Qi. Polarigo began his trilogy on the path of inheritance. In 1974, the first horsehead piano playing method (Mongolian and Han) in history was published, and Qi Baoligao completed the first step of inheritance, unifying the bow and fingering of the horsehead piano. Then, at the suggestion of his wife, he created the world's first horse-headed piano band: "Qi. Baoli Gao Mustang Horse Head Qin Band", ending the history of only solo and accompaniment of the horse head qin, enriched the performance form of the horse head qin. His third step, on the basis of large-scale training courses, was to create the world's first horsehead piano art academy. Train more horsehead players. After several years of unremitting efforts, in 2011, with the approval of the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Qi. The Polyco International Horsehead Piano Academy was officially established in Xilinhot. Regarding inheritance, Qi Baoligao once said: "We teach and cultivate children, first of all, we must cultivate their national self-esteem. My greatest wish is to play the last ending note of the last song and then fall down, I think this life is perfect. I have left all my skills to future generations, to serve the people of all ethnic groups at home and abroad. I feel that this is the artist of the people, and this is the true inheritor of intangible cultural heritage. ”
