The happy life of the seventy-year-old "Guzheng Grandma"

She is dignified and virtuous, quiet and elegant, and humble. Although the age is too old, the young mentality is still there. She loves folk dance, ballroom dance, national standard dance and Mulan fist, and is even more fond of guzheng instruments. No matter the spring, summer, autumn or winter, she can't move every day by playing the guzheng and is respected by her relatives and friends as "guzheng grandmother". Recently, the reporter went to the "Binjiang Lido" community in Dacheng to visit the 72-year-old "Guzheng Grandmother" Lai Shuying.

In the small garden of Lai Shuying's home, the reporter saw that Lai Shuying, who was beautifully dressed and calm and elegant, sat in front of the elegant guzheng and plucked the strings, and the beautiful and pleasant sound of the piano flowed everywhere.

"She became a 'piano idiot', every morning when she got up to read the score..." Lai Shuying's wife told reporters that Lai Shuying contains lingering classical feelings in her heart, and has long been inseparable from the guzheng "know and love", and in the past 20 years, she must play the guzheng for more than 4 hours a day, busier than office workers.

"This song is called "Mountain Flowing Water", which is one of the most well-known and representative pieces of guzheng repertoire, and when played, the poetic meaning of alpine flowing water will appear in front of your eyes..." Lai Shuying said, the guzheng melody is beautiful and smooth, the sound rhyme is simple and elegant, the tune is deep and transparent, the style is elegant and fresh, and the artistic conception is far-reaching. After a while, Lai Shuying caressed the strings with both hands and played songs such as "Fishing Boat Singing Evening" and "Henan Eight Plates".

"I admire talented people, whether they are elders, peers or juniors, as long as they are talented, they are my teachers." Lai Shuying said that her daughter is a senior guzheng teacher, and the students she has cultivated have won many awards in provincial and national guzheng competitions. When her daughter gave lessons to students every day, Lai Shuying sat in the classroom as an "auditor" and concentrated on taking notes. "The instrument is taught in three points and practiced in seven points." After Lai Shuying returned home, she sat in front of the piano stage to review and practice, and she didn't care about the grinding of her fingers. Due to Lai Shuying's good knowledge and understanding of music theory, coupled with her daughter's frequent home tutoring, Lai Shuying's guzheng skills are getting better and better, and after more than a year, she can skillfully play many famous songs.

"Learning guzheng is not to compete, and it is not to win awards." Lai Shuying said that it is her love for guzheng and the enjoyment of the beautiful melody of guzheng that brings her spiritual pleasure. It is also said that the fingering methods commonly used in guzheng performance are hook, support, wipe, play, split, pick, pick, flower finger, shaking finger, pressing, kneading strings, vibrato, portamento and so on. Talking about the guzheng, Lai Shuying was full of economy, full of interest, and talked about it. Lai Shuying said that she has purchased 3 guzhengs, the most expensive one is worth more than 6,000 yuan, plus an old sister gave her one, there are now a total of four guzheng.

Lai Shuying is now a member of small bands such as the "Pioneer Orchestra", "Special Bel canto Orchestra" and "Tian tian le" in Dacheng, and in addition to playing in the riverside garden, she often goes to the community, school, "Moon Lake" and other nursing homes with musicians to perform in condolence performances. For convenience, a guzheng was also deposited in a tea house in the riverside garden, and the annual payment fee was 400 yuan.

"Every time I go up the mountain or perform in a distant distance, my wife helps me carry the guzheng." Lai Shuying smiled and said that her wife is her mentor and friend, and she is also the backer of her life.

"In addition to guzheng, I also love TCM." Lai Shuying said that the enlightenment teacher of Chinese medicine was her father. Lai Shuying's father was originally a military doctor who was proficient in the way of Chinese medicine, and under the influence of her father, Lai Shuying developed a strong interest in Chinese medicine from an early age. As the saying goes, to write poetry, you must be familiar with three hundred Tang poems, and to learn Chinese medicine, you must be familiar with memorizing the "Tang tou Song". When Lai Shuying was 15 years old, she got up every day before dawn and sat in front of the stove to recite the "Tangtou Song" by the light of the fire. Because Lai Shuying is diligent and studious, the more "Tangtou Song" is memorized, the nearly 100 "Tangtou Songs" can be recited backwards like a stream. Coupled with the guidance of her father and an old Chinese medicine doctor, Lai Shuying's level of Traditional Chinese medicine continued to improve, and she was later transferred to the District and Township Health Center, the Daxian Transportation System and the infirmary of the subordinate units of the Daxian Civil Affairs Bureau as a doctor. During this period, Lai Shuying also went to the former Daxian Hongqi Hospital, Daxian Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Daxian District Health School, and Dazhou Central Hospital for further study.

Lai Shuying said that learning guzheng to cultivate the heart and cultivate sentiments, studying medicine is to escort health. Lai Shuying also pursues external beauty in her daily life, dressing herself up beautifully every day, and her mood is particularly comfortable. "When you are young, you must be beautiful in your heart, your body and mind are beautiful every day, and your sunset life is full of warmth, happiness and sunshine." (Special Correspondent Zhao Mingyang)