Among the huge and complex Chinese and foreign instruments, my favorite in the West is the violin, while folk music is the Chinese guqin. These two instruments, in the arbitrary eyes of me, a person who does not know much about music, can be called the first instruments in the East and the West, and the sounds emitted are magnetic, and they can make your heart sound vibrate with the music.
In a sense, the guqin is the true representative of classical. If you have not heard the tone of the guqin, then your understanding of the classical is incomplete, or you can be sure that you do not understand the classical - listening to the qin is the most direct and effective way to experience the thoughts of the ancients. Here it is necessary to talk about the difference between the piano and the kite. Often some people hear the kite, they mistakenly think that they have heard the piano, I once saw the use of the kite in a TV series. (The difference between the piano and the kite in terms of origin, technique, etc. does not need to be elaborated, because it will not affect your appreciation of the sound of the piano and the beautiful text.) ）
The piano is generally seven strings, while the kite is mostly twenty-one strings. Of course, due to the flow of the times or the specific needs, there will occasionally be some discrepancies in the number of strings between the piano and the kite. From the perspective of timbre, the piano is not inferior to the kite in terms of clear and exciting, but it is far better than the kite in terms of simplicity and thickness. The kite is like a trickle, and the piano is like a deep stream; the kite is like the morning of the sun, and the piano is like the night of the full moon; the kite is like a wise man of the world, and the piano is like a monk of the Tao, in contrast, the piano is more suitable for expressing that deep and distant artistic conception. The ancient saying cloud "playing the piano is not clear, it is better to play the kite", it can be seen that the status of the piano in the hearts of the ancients is above the kite, is the real joy of daya, is one of the best partners of the ancients to pour out their hearts, and chess, books, paintings and known as the four gentlemen of Yilin and ranked first.
The tone is positive, peaceful, gentle, thick, and the afterglow is light, subtle, deep, long, distant, and quite capable. Because of its hermit spirit and lack of wisdom, it can be seen as a perfect embodiment of the organic combination of Taoist and Confucian spirit. Therefore, whether it is a well-learned person who wants to rule the country and the world, or a reclusive literati who mistakenly enters the dust net and breaks through the red dust, he has a special attachment to the piano. Generally modern people can know such as Kong Qiu, Boya, Zou Ji, Cai's father and daughter (Cai Yong, Cai Yan), Ji Kang, Ruan Yuan, Ruan Xian among the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest... Famous and nameless, numerous, and so on, the piano and people, and people's thoughts and feelings, and even moral concepts have reached a spiritual tacit understanding. Even the warriors of the sword and horse career and the chivalrous guests who cross the rivers and lakes have a special love for the piano. The famous Southern Song Dynasty general Yue Fei once issued an exclamation of "knowing less, who listens to the broken strings" in his "Little Heavy Mountain", one of his only three remaining poems, and the story of countless "three feet of sword and one piano" of sword and gall, chivalrous bones and soft intestines has touched me and touched you.
The elegance of the piano is not only in the rhyme, but also in the posture of the player. We can't imagine what it would be like to let Confucius play Erhu, nor can we speculate whether letting Sima Xiangru play the pipa would make Wenjun fall in love at first sight, and we don't know if letting Zhuge Liang play the flute can scare Sima Yi off, let alone let Cai Wenji play percussion or sing her HuFu eighteen beats, but they are all masters of playing the piano. Even if you don't listen to the sound, just looking at the elegant posture of the pianist when playing, the rhythm of the fingertips, is a very charming dance. Not long ago, on television, I saw an MTV of a guqin song made by a director with a lot of taste, the performers wore plain costumes, in the bamboo forest, by the stream, in the painting boat, in the mountains, in the ancient city, the sound of the piano was fluttering, the clothes were fluttering, the intestines were swinging, suspected to be immortals, that scene, that charm, every time in the heart, it would be fascinated, the vulgar meaning was gone, the joy was happy, the frankness was calm, such as the trend of Taihe.
The beauty of the piano, in its mood. The meaning is transmitted by the sound, the environment is transmitted by the voice of the heart, and the heart of the person who plays it, the listener will know the heart. in order to be able to achieve a wonderful state. The ancient stories of Xi Bo yazi's landscape zhiyin, presumably no one will not know. And what the piano can express is not limited to mountains and flowing water. If you can listen carefully to a piece of music, even if you can't feel the situation of transcendence and forgetting both things, at least you can calm down and let the mind get a good washing. The sound is simple, just in line with the principle of fading taste and thin sound, and bringing you into a dust-free and pure world. The lofty environment of the piano is inseparable from the unique conditions of the piano in terms of rhyme, and the close connection with culture is the fundamental reason for its uniqueness.
The qin was first used to sing the "ode" in the "Book of Poetry" in some major sacrificial occasions, called "Ode to the Qin", and then loved by the literati, used to accompany the singing of "Daya", "Xiaoya" and other songs, so it is also said to be "Yaqin". There is no shortage of literati who are good at playing the piano in the past, and even some literati are directly involved in the production of the piano. Due to the intervention of the literati, the music of the piano is incomparable to that of other instruments in terms of the spirit of the pianist, the piano music, the piano theory and the piano theory. The piano is the heart sound, from the sound of finger strings touching, and its artistic conception has long been beyond the sound, becoming a force that makes people and nature achieve a magical fit.
The reverence of the ancients for the piano is not acceptable to modern people. The preparations before playing the violin alone are cumbersome, somewhat religious. You probably need to wash your hands, clean your face (of course, if you have the conditions, it is better to bathe), burn incense, dress up, calm your mind, and pray before you can play the piano. It is said that the earliest qin is a kind of magic instrument that can produce sound in the hands of wizards, which is not easy to verify, but the art of qin in ancient times was called "qin dao" and "qin zen", but it is a fact, it can be seen that the qin has formed an independent philosophical and aesthetic system very early, and there are many qin theory monographs from ancient times to the present, which can be said to be quite complete.
Here we may wish to mention a person - his name is Xu Shangying, who belongs to the Yushan Sect in the Ten Great Qin Sects, a person from the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and is a representative of the Yushan Sect. This person is very interesting, when the Ming Dynasty died, he wanted to participate in the anti-Qing Dynasty, a bit like the anti-Qing righteous soldiers in Jin Yong's novels; later, when the anti-Qing resistance was not successful, he ran to the Area of Qionglong Mountain in Suzhou to live in seclusion and concentrate on studying the art of the piano - this is a bit like Zhu Yun, who immersed himself in calligraphy and painting after the death of the country and his family, and all showed the helplessness with some national colors. Xu Shangying is a spiritual and obsessive person, according to my opinion, this person's obsession with the piano is no less than the attachment of the internet worms to the Internet.
He was not only highly skilled in the piano, and was praised by the people of the time as "the boya of this world", but more importantly, he wrote a "Xishan Qin Condition", which elaborated on the aesthetic principles of the qin in twenty-four conditions such as harmony, quietness, qing, yuan, ancient, light, tian and yi, and was one of the most important documents in the history of violinology. For example, he said that the quiet of the piano: "The sound is strong, the finger is impatience, the sound is rough, the sound is known to be quiet, and this way of judging the sound is also." Gai Jing comes out of the middle, the sound is born from the heart, there is a disturbance in the heart, the fingers are scratched, and the piano is touched, and An can get quiet? But the cultivated man, indifferent and quiet, the heart is dustless, referring to the leisure, and the reason for the sound of hope, leisurely can be obtained. ”
Another example is the qing of the piano: "... Therefore, the Pure One, the original of Daya, is the master of sound. If the ground is not secluded, it is not clear, the piano is not real, the strings are not clean, the heart is not quiet, the qi is not clear: all are clear to the most important, and the finger is the most clear. "Twenty-four small articles, can be described as wonderful, really standing on the shoulders of the predecessors of the collection of masters, piano learning to this point, can be regarded as a small summary."
Scattered here, you don't think that the author is a person who can play the piano. Good at playing and good at talking, playing the piano and talking about the piano, although homophonous but far apart. The vast and turbid world, the trivialities, the ancients are envious of the fish, modern people in a complex social environment, but also often have a lot of thoughts of escaping the world, it can be seen that at this point, the ancients and today's people have common troubles. After all, avoidance is not very realistic, I do not advocate avoidance, it is better to calm down when the heart is impetuous, listen to a guqin, let the mind dance softly in the sound of the piano, let the nervous nerves get a moment of rest, the heart is relaxed and pleasant, why not enjoy it.