On August 8, 2008, a song by 80 horse-headed pianists performed "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping" was unveiled at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. The natural music is sometimes high-pitched and exciting, sometimes gentle and low-pitched, making the audience feel like they are in a vast grassland. With the sound of this heavenly sound, an old man came with a Hatta model in his hand...
He is Chit Boligao, the world-renowned master of horse-head piano playing. In the more than 60 years of artistic creation of the horsehead, he has reformed the traditional horsehead and created many firsts: he created the first concerto in the history of the horsehead, created the world's first horsehead orchestra... His lifelong dream is to spread the horse's head piano to every corner of the world.
"I have only three words in my life - horse head qin"
Born in the beautiful Horqin grassland in 1944, Qi Baoligao began to learn the piano at the age of 6, joined a professional troupe at the age of 14, and has been engaged in the art of horsehead piano for more than 60 years. "When I was very young, I used to stand under the telephone pole and listen to the wind blowing the buzzing sound of the telephone line, which was incredibly magical and wonderful." This sensitivity and fascination with nature music gives his horsehead music creation an original charm.
In addition to being the inheritor of the horsehead piano art, Qi Baoligao also has multiple identities: the descendant of Genghis Khan, the fifth living Buddha of the Moli Temple in the Horqin Grassland, the president of the Chinese Horsehead Piano Society, the national music educator, composer, research expert, social activist...
But Qi Baoligao outlined his life, just three words - "horse head qin". He often said that the horse head has become himself, and he has become the horse head, and in his mind the horse head is a god.
"To live is to live for the horse's head; to die is to die for the horse's head." At the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Chits Bolligo once said this emotionally.
"I live for the horse's head, the horse's head is here, I will never die." This testimonial on the stage of Beijing Satellite TV's "Inheritor" shocked all the guests and audiences, including Chen Daoming, Phoenix Satellite TV Chinese Director Wang Jiyan.
In Zilbergo's view, there is a big difference between an artist and a violinist. "An artist is first and foremost a philosopher, a historian, an anthropologist, a writer, and a little bit of medicine. If all the front is ripe, your art will go farther and farther, not short-lived. The real artist sends every note to the sixth nerve of the audience, using music to tell the heart song, so that the audience can enjoy your music. "Qi Baoligao is adhering to this belief and walking on the road of inheriting the horse's head piano.
Qi Baoligao once said that many of his works are written for mothers, children, friends, and their own people. He said that if everything was measured by money, the nation would not be pure, and as long as there was love, everything in the world would be easy to do.
Today, Qi Baoli is old, but he has always insisted on his pursuit: "My mother said to me 55 years ago, a man must not live with himself, and a man who cannot live with himself can get by with anyone." ”
"The horse's head is a sound from heaven"
Vast grasslands, galloping horses, cheerful pastoral songs, howling winds... The horsehead can truly express the life and emotions of the Mongolian people, and is a representative instrument of the Mongolian nation, and the only "instrument with a head".
In Qi Baoligao's view, "Where there is a head, there is five viscera, where there is five viscera, there is life, there is a soul, and where there is a soul, there is God." According to Chitspo, every ponytail is a philosophy, because the ponythe is a musical instrument that speaks to heaven and earth. The steppe people gave the horsehead qin life and soul, and the horsehead qin used its vigorous music that penetrated the world's sorrows and joys to solve the problems for the grassland people and let them tell their heartfelt hearts.
Qi Baoligao is not only a master of the art of the horsehead, but also the master of the art of the horsehead.
The traditional horsehead piano is mainly solo, and the methods of playing the horsehead are different for people of different Mongolian tribes. Qi Baoligao unified the horsehead piano playing method, thus greatly enriching the penetration and appeal of the horsehead piano. Qi Baoligao also designed the treble horse head qin, the alto horse head qin, the three-string horse head qin, the cello horse head qin, the bass horse head qin, etc., realizing the development and leap of the horse head qin from solo to ensemble and concerto. In addition, he has been engaged in the creation of horse-head piano music. More than 80% of the world's horse-head piano pieces are written by Qi Baoligao. Qi Baoligao himself once said: "My national self-esteem makes the horsehead qin go to China, and my national self-esteem makes the horsehead qin go to the world." ”
In 1986, Zilbergo founded the world's first horsehead piano orchestra, ending the history that the horsehead piano could only be played solo;
In August 2001, at the International Horsehead Piano Festival, Qi Baoligao led more than 1,000 people to perform "Ten Thousand Horses Galloping", breaking the Guinness World Record;
In 2005, Zidzia Baoli participated in the Musikverein concert in Vienna, where he was dubbed "China's Paganini" by European music critics;
In 2008, Qi Baoligao appeared at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, showing the charm of horsehead piano art to the world;
In December 2013, Qi Baoligao held a special concert on the horse's head at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, and was awarded the Mongolian Artistic Lifetime Contribution Award;
In January 2015, Qi Baoligao won the "Chinese Culture Figure Award" issued by the Chinese Culture Promotion Association and Phoenix Satellite TV.
"I see the world as a stage for the horse's head"
In the home of Qi Baoligao, there is a calligraphy work written by himself: "The ancestor Genghis Khan regarded the world as his own grassland, and as his descendants, I saw the world as the stage of the horse's head." ”
Today, Qi Baoligao has traveled with the orchestra to many countries in Europe, the Americas and Africa, so that more people can understand Chinese culture. In this regard, Qi Baoligao said: "More than 40 years ago, I was alone in playing the harp, and now, there are tens of thousands of people, all over the world. ”
Chitsbal Boligo spent more than 20 years in Japan, making the art of the horsehead instrument have a profound impact in Japan. But he wasn't satisfied, "There are 2,500 large concert halls in Japan, and so far I've performed in 1,500 of them, and 1,000 of them haven't yet."
Ten years ago, at the Musikverein in Vienna, Zilbergo and his horse-head orchestra performed a special performance to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the anti-fascist war, saying: "More than 760 years ago, our ancestors came here wielding machetes, and today the descendants of Genghis Khan are here again with the horse's head and singing peace songs, and we are the messengers of peace." ”
From the prairie to the National Centre for the Performing Arts, into the Musikverein in Vienna, and into the United Nations Headquarters, the 72-year-old Qi Baoligao has devoted his life to the art of horse-head piano performance, using national music to convey Chinese art and the voice of peace to the world.
Wang Jiyan, a close friend of Qi Baoligao for decades, vice chairman of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association and director of the Phoenix Satellite TV Chinese, once commented on Qi Baoligao: He has 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 to introduce to everyone. First, he is a beautiful legend on the grassland, from a living Buddha to a master of the horse-head qin; second, all his life is the years of the two strings of the horse-head qin; third, the horse-head piano team he founded, which has now been a full 30 years; fourth, 4/5 of the horse-head piano music (composing the song) in the world is composed by him; fifth, he has more than 50,000 disciples in dozens of countries in the world; sixth, he has played the horse-head piano for 60 years, which is a model in the Chinese tradition that I have seen.
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