Teacher Li Chunhua and I
Qin Zhenhai
Li Chunhua is a very loud name in the gourd silk world. There is no one who plays gourd silk who does not learn the gourd silk playing tutorial he wrote, there is no person who does not play the music he composes, and there is no person who does not listen to or watch his playing.
In 2010, I retired, like a donkey pulling a mill, unloading the sleeve, relaxed, doing nothing for a day, and feeling bored for a long time. Do? What to play? What to learn? This is a new issue after retirement. Because I loved music since I was a child, playing the flute was my boyhood skill, but I didn't blow it for decades, and I didn't have enough strength to pick up again. By chance, I met a teacher Guo who blew gourd silk, and he brought him into the wonderful world of natural sounds.
The Chinese nation has thousands of years of culture, tens of thousands of years of culture, no matter how the dynasties change, but those who study art, if they want to learn fine, all rely on teachers. The Seventy-Two Changeable Sun Wukong, Master Bodhi was his teacher, confucius, who even the emperor was revered as the most holy, and Lao Tzu Li Er was his teacher. To use an analogy, your parents make mobile phones, and the teacher installs chips for you. Whoever accomplishes something does not worship the Teacher. No wonder Confucius attached great importance to the Tao of The Master, and once said with infinite emotion, "The threesome will have my teacher!"
The elderly are brothers, and those who are able are teachers. Teachers, young and old, male or female, inside and outside, and present. In order to blow the gourd silk well, I successively visited Teacher Guo, Teacher Liang Zhenping, Teacher Li Xuejie, Teacher Meng Qingzhong, and Teacher Zhu Ke. After the gourd silk teacher in Handan finished praying, I went to Shandong to pay respects to Teacher Wei Shijian, and then to Beijing to pay respects to Teacher He Weiqing.
Gourd silk is the essence of the country, it originated in ancient times, the mythical story of the female scourge mud to create people is in handan County, The Emperor Mountain, according to legend, after nuwa created people and all things, she imitated the birds' calls, and taught the music of the tongue spring to the people of the world, the north of China evolved into sheng, the south of China evolved into a gourd, and this kind of instrument is Yunnan Dehong. At present, as long as people mention gourd silk, they all know that this is the instrument of the Dai ethnic group in Yunnan. The gourd silk master Yu Dequan is a Dai person, and his descendant Li Chunhua grew up in Yunnan. I made up my mind to go to Yunnan to study.
In August 2012, I came to Kunming with my good friends Zhang Yuchen and Qi Baoyan, and according to the mobile phone number given to me by Teacher Meng Qingzhong, I dialed Teacher Li Chunhua, who spoke very kindly, and left a good impression at first sight. I asked For advice from Teacher Primavera in person, and he gave me advice one by one, which benefited me a lot.
If you want to do something, you must first use it. I told Mr. Chunhua that I wanted to buy a set of top-of-the-line gourd silk, and he immediately agreed. Later, he told me that the gourd wire had been prepared and asked me to pick it up myself. I flew to Kunming, and Teacher Chunhua carved words on the gourd silk in front of me. This set of gourd silk CDGF is all six sections, only the middle B tone is four sections. Four strokes are heavenly characters, and six strokes are earth characters. This is clearly the wonderful sound of heaven and earth. This set of gourd silk materials was collected by Teacher Chunhua for fifteen years to form a set, and I did not expect that Teacher Chunhua gave it to me. I am like Sun Wukong going to the East Sea Dragon King to get the Ruyi Golden Hoop Stick, like getting the most precious treasure. This time, Teacher Chunhua accompanied me to the graveyard of the gourd silk master Duo Dequan and paid homage to Teacher Wu. I also visited Mr. Primavera's teaching room and studio. After staying for three days, Teacher Chunhua accompanied me to eat food for three days. I walked into the spiritual world of Teacher Chunhua this time, he is a grateful person, a person who is serious about love and righteousness, and a person with artistic talent and selfless struggle. It has been almost ten years since Teacher Primavera gave me this set of gourd silk, and whenever I blow it, I think of Teacher Primavera. When others asked me how much this set of gourd silk cost, I said that it was a priceless treasure and would not sell for twenty thousand yuan. I've taken it to Tibet, to Japan, to Russia, to Australasia, to North Korea, to South Korea. In 2017, I went on a trip to Nepal and played music under the Bodhi tree in Lumbini, where Shakyamuni was born.
The third time I went to visit Teacher Primavera, we didn't talk about gourd silk, only about life and life.
I have invited Teacher Chunhua to Handan as a guest many times and to give lectures in Handan, but I have not been able to do so. This year marks the first gourd festival held by the Handan Fenusi Bawu Society, and the fifth anniversary of the success of the Handan Hulu Si Ba Wu Society in challenging Guinness. I discussed with the silk friends, we must invite Teacher Chunhua to come, I know that Teacher Chunhua is very busy, I held the idea of trying it out, explained my heart to Teacher Chunhua, he promised to go to Handan and the Silk Friends Association. At 11:00 a.m. on the 16th of this month, Teacher Chunhua will take a flight to land at Handan Airport.
Silk friends, there are friends from afar who are happy! Let's count with our fingers, the 16th is coming!
September 11, 2021
