On the last day of 2020, the Shanghai "Shipyard 1862" Art Center held a special New Year's Eve concert. The background of the performance is set in the Tang Dynasty, a guqin, a guzheng, both traditional instruments. The performers are dressed in flowing robes of red saros, their faces are extremely white, and a little red lipstick between their lips, from hair ornaments, makeup to clothing, are strictly restored according to historical materials. Lanterns and candles are also the same as the style of the Tang Dynasty, the candles are extinguished, and the audience seems to be transported into the past time and space.
The performance group is called the Zide Qin Society, which is a loose Chinese music group with 6 fixed members, most of whom are post-80s and post-90s, and there are also a number of young performers as "foreign aid" who participate from time to time. This performance includes both restored ancient songs, as well as electric guqin and electric Nguyen ensembles that combine tradition and modernity.
The member of the Qin Society who plays the guqin is named Bai Wufeng, born in 1992, and loves martial arts, games and two-dimensional yuan. After the New Year's Day concert this year, Bai Wufeng uploaded the video of the performance to today's headlines and watermelon video, and she has accumulated 450,000 fans on the platform. And Zideqin also has nearly 180,000 fans in Watermelon Video. Open the headline homepage of the Qin Society, you can see both the traditional and modern music performed by the members, as well as the guqin solo of Bai Wufeng and others.
Among them, the most popular is the "Ancient Paintings" series. These videos are simple and clean, often a guqin, a guzheng, plus a piano and drum. Dressed in ancient costumes, the members of the Qin Society restored the traditional appearance, like a static ancient painting, which leisurely brought the audience into the atmosphere of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
On the watermelon video, these young people combine traditional music with modern forms, so that the original niche Chinese music culture has been popularized, and has gone abroad, and even been imitated. At present, on YouTube, Zideqin Society has 520,000 fans, of which the flawless guqin solo work "Unstained" has been played on this platform as high as 8.2 million. Recently, overseas video platforms have also appeared to imitate their creative content, and the creativity and style are the same.
Excerpt from "Drunken Fishing Singing Late"
<h1>The chinese music is trendy</h1>
The venue of the piano club is located in a duplex unit in Pudong, Shanghai. There are a total of four or five piano rooms, each of which is equipped with six guqin sheets. Winter is cold, and it is inevitable that there will be some loneliness in the living room. But the dining room next door is a completely different sight. The members of the Zideqin Society gathered together, including President Zhu Liyu, Artistic Director Tang Bin, and Guqin Teacher Bai Wufeng, who was drinking milk tea at the table. Occasionally, young faces joined, they were all guqin teachers of the Qin Society, and they were all post-90s.
White and flawless with fair skin, long hair and a lively personality. In 2010, she finished playing the first part of the Xianxia game "Ancient Sword And Strange Tan" in one go, and was attracted by the guqin music in the game, but she was still preparing for the college entrance examination. After graduating from high school, Dad made good on his promise to her and allowed her to learn the guqin. After studying at Shanghai University, the first thing she thought about was to join the folk music club. Bai Wufeng studied guqin at the Jiupai Qinguan and met the teacher in the Qinguan, that is, Tang Bin, the artistic director of the Zide Qin Society.
Tang Bin has been playing the guqin for nearly 20 years. During his university years, he studied under the guqin player Gong Yi. After completing his studies, Tang Bin still could not support himself by relying on the guqin. At that time, he met Zhu Liyu, who also liked the guqin. Zhu Liyu is a native of Shanghai and is fascinated by ancient music. However, at that time, Chinese music was still very niche, and guqin teachers were often forced to change careers because of their livelihood, and the students basically gave up halfway. After some deliberation, Zhu Liyu and Tang Bin decided to set up a piano club together to recruit students and spread the culture of Chinese music.
In 2014, Zhu Liyu rented a small room of 30 square meters in the alley of Meilanfang in Shanghai, and the Piano Club was established. The name of the qin society is ZiDe, taken from "Zhuangzi". Zhu Liyu said: "The Piano Society can teach you some skills, but the love and aesthetics of art may still require you to do subtraction, and to find your own innate, it is self-satisfied." ”
There were only three people in the Kotosha at first. In 2015, Bai Wufeng graduated from university and joined the Qin Society under the introduction of Tang Bin as a guqin teacher. Later, the scale of the students was further expanded, and the Qin Society rented two rooms and two halls nearby. In May 2019, qinsha moved again, which is now the duplex house.
The Piano Club performs "Plum Blossom New Lane", and the middle is white and flawless
On the basis of the piano club, the members began to experiment with ensemble performances, forming a regular band of six people, the band was loose, and everyone usually had other work. As the artistic director of the Qin Society, Tang Bin has been exploring how to bring ancient art into the future while still retaining its characteristics. Although the guqin was listed as an intangible cultural heritage by the United Nations in 2003, it has not changed its niche. The interval between the ages of the instruments is long, and ordinary people find it difficult to understand and the threshold is high.
This group of young people in the piano club have their own professional backgrounds, because of their love for Chinese music, they come together, which also makes the expression forms of traditional art more diverse. Among the members who play the guqin, Bai Wufeng was born in 1992, studied materials science in college, and Yin Yihaonan was born in 1993, and his undergraduate science was traditional Chinese medicine.
In the past two years, the video platform has allowed a wider audience for Chinese music culture such as Guqin. Since the beginning of 2019, the Zideqin Society has been familiar with more and more people in the watermelon video. They also noticed that there are many music creators of the National Style genre on this platform, such as the post-95 girl "Bumping Peng Touching Peng" and playing guzheng on the streets of France.
"Now a consensus or ethos is being formed, that is, to be familiar with, understand and love their traditional culture, especially young people." Zhu Liyu said.
<h1>The guqin moves the heartstrings, and the costumes are picturesque</h1>
Since 2019, the Zideqin Society has successively released a series of videos playing in ancient paintings on watermelon videos and today's headlines, and the players of guqin, guzheng, flute, Xiao and drums are dressed in ancient costumes and are in the paintings. They played songs such as "Birds on the Empty Mountain", "Drunken Fishing Singing Evening", as well as the theme songs of "Tianlong Babu" and "Journey to the West".
At first, Tang Bin wanted to make an ensemble video of six people wearing uniform new Chinese costumes, but he couldn't get together six sets of clothes, or he could only make high-end costumes at a high price. Someone in the Qin Society knew the people in the Chinese costume restoration team and asked them to help provide the costumes. Founded in 2007, the China Costume Restoration Team is committed to restoring ancient clothing and makeup, from examining historical materials to finding raw materials for clothes, making fabrics, dyeing, and garments, all completed by the costume restoration team.
The filming location was at the Zide Qin Society's filming base in Jiaxing, where there was a four-story industrial park, two of which were used to make guqins, and the rest were used as recording studios and photo studios. Before shooting, Tang Bin first recorded the sound, the sound of the studio is very poor, and when shooting, the most time-consuming thing is makeup and composition. After the instruments are arranged, the musicians must make very subtle adjustments between them, which cannot be blocked from each other, and must have a sense of beauty. The studio was just able to jam six people and their instruments.
White flawless costume photos
After the launch of the ancient painting series of videos, the response to watermelon videos and today's headlines was very good. In addition to the good music, exquisite makeup, flowing costumes, refreshing is the presentation of the video. The musicians are in the slightly yellowed picture scroll, the distant sound of the guqin sounds, the people in the painting suddenly move, and the people and music seem to come from the Han and Tang Dynasties, ethereal and moving. These pieces have been adapted by Tang Bin and incorporated into different instruments to better interact with modern listeners.
Tang Bin has long cooperated with different musicians, so that the guqin collocation, guitar, Zhongruan, percussion, etc., a circle down to find that in fact, the world's listeners' preferences for music are common - first of all, there must be a clear voice line, this line is the vocals, to the instrument ensemble, instead of the human voice is the flute and Xiao, second, there needs to be a harmonic background, Tang Bin uses the Middle Ruan or Guzheng, third, it is rhythm, Tang Bin uses drums, and finally low-frequency instruments, and can take into account the melody, that is, the guqin.
In ancient times, the guqin was regarded as a representative of elegance, usually played solo, accompanied by literati chanting at most, and the sound of the piano was low and long. But in modern times, Tang Bin feels that the guqin solo is monotonous, like a cup of light white water, high and widowed love, and the general public feels too dull. Tang Bin usually likes to drink milk tea, he thought, a good cup of milk tea, to add cheese, pearls, cheese and other things, the richer, the better delicious, music is also.
As a result, the audience saw a novel attempt and fusion in the video of the Zideqin Society. In "Drunken Chengdu", the Qin Society combines the piano and drum with the contemporary rap, tracing the life atmosphere of modern Chengdu back to ancient times, and the members dressed in ancient costumes either show the form of rap figurines or show different life scenes, like a dynamic scroll through history.
Fragment of "Drunken Chengdu"
The jingle cat in "Doraemon" is a childhood memory of many people, and the Qin Society chose to present it in the style of dress in the late Tang Dynasty, when the style of cat picking was already prevalent.
In December 2020, the Watermelon Video Music Channel announced the list of music creators of the "Lighthouse Project". With Bai Flawless's performance of "Exploring the Clear Water River", zide qin society was successfully shortlisted for the project.
<h1>Rely on the guqin to conquer overseas netizens</h1>
If "Drunken Chengdu" and "Doraemon" can be seen as an interesting attempt by the Qin Society at the level of seeking innovation, then a divine work such as "ShenRen Chang" represents an extreme exploration of the Zide Qin Society at the professional level. This is a guqin piece dating back to the Han Dynasty, which is said to have been composed by Emperor Yao in the ancient times, describing the scene of tribal sacrifice, the Eastern Han Dynasty violinist Huan Tan has recorded in the "New On the Qin Dao", but the score only exists in the Ming Dynasty Wang Zhi compiled the "Xilutang Qintuo", with a gap of 1,500 years. This also means that it is extremely difficult to adapt and restore the costumes of the time.
Tang Bin and others deconstructed and rearranged the content of ancient songs, equipped with instruments such as overtone flutes, big drums, and small hits, which were both ethereal and ethereal and eerie. In addition, there are professional dancers who interpret the Chudi-style sacrifice scenes. The dancers wear cloud-patterned tunics and long-sleeved silk tunics, which refer to silk fabrics excavated from the Mawangdui Han Tomb. The costumes of the instrumentalists refer to the painted pottery figurines excavated from the tomb of king Chu of Shanxi in Xuzhou's North Cave and the wooden figurines of the Mawangdui Han tomb.
After the video was launched on Watermelon Video and today's headlines, it was played nearly 1 million times, and it also had 180,000 views on YouTube. After the excavation and adaptation of the piano society, the originally difficult and niche music has found a wider audience, and many viewers have a deeper understanding of ancient culture. In the watermelon video comment area, some people lamented, "It is like touching the Han Dynasty", "I feel the wind of Yin Shang sacrifice, the obscure atmosphere of ghosts and gods", and "the dancers are simply the re-carvings of the palace women on the lamp of the Changxin Palace in the Han Dynasty".
Fragment of "God and Man Chang"
Chinese audiences' attention is mostly focused on cultural heritage, and for those overseas netizens, these videos of Zideqin Society are a great opportunity for them to learn and feel Chinese culture.
In these videos uploaded to overseas platforms by the Zide Qin Society, Bai Flawless's solo song "Unstained" has been played 8.3 million times. This was originally the theme song of a costume TV series, but under the adaptation of the Qin Society and the flawless solo performance, it has a richer meaning and also concentrates on the characteristics of the guqin.
White Flawless Solo "Unstained"
In the video, Bai Wufeng is dressed in red, and many times he can only see the fingers playing on the guqin, and the beams on the strings can be faintly seen, in addition to no superfluous decoration. Many overseas netizens were touched by the distant sound and color of the guqin, and felt that this instrument had the characteristics of both the piano and the violin, and the unique artistic conception of Chinese culture.
Just as Li Ziqi was honored by Vietnamese creators, the Zide Qin Society did not escape the fate of being "borrowed". In September 2020, a Korean creative group also uploaded an ensemble video of the Korean classic music "Hate for 500 Years" on YouTube, which was similar to the "ancient painting" idea of the Zideqin Society. This also shows from the side that the Chinese music works of the Zide Qin Society are going abroad and are being accepted by more people.
Korean antique music ensemble
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