"Autumn leaves strolling through Furong Lane, who knows the sound of bamboo pianos... The little bamboo piano is ordinary, and Hao Hao Wenshi is full of chest..."
A few days ago, in the small concert hall of Chengdu City Concert Hall, a double-support concert that integrates symphony, folk music solo, chorus and other art forms is being staged, among which Tang Yu, a graduate student of the Department of Ethnic Vocal Music of Sichuan Conservatory of Music, holds a bamboo piano and sings and recites the "Sound of Bamboo Piano" in the form of chanting. At the scene of the performance, Tang Yu's penetrating singing and the unique melody of the bamboo piano made people feel as if they had entered the bamboo forest full of green eyes, and the sense of tranquility and ethereality of nature came to the face.
Tang Yu brought the art of bamboo organ to chengdu city concert hall
Tang Yu, as a disciple of Luo Dachun, the inheritor of Sichuan bamboo qin art, under the guidance of his master, combined the bamboo qin with popular singing, so that the ancient bamboo qin was rejuvenated. In recent years, under the leadership of Luo Dachun, Sichuan Bamboo Qin has not only allowed the seeds of bamboo qin to take root and sprout in the broadest soil through forms such as "intangible cultural heritage into the campus", but also given zhuqin a richer form of artistic expression, so that bamboo qin can return to the public vision.
Teacher Luo Dachun taught the art of bamboo harp
Bamboo qin, originally a kind of bamboo tube and simple board as the main accompaniment instrument named folk instruments, also known as "playing The Taoist Tube", "Singing The Taoist Tube", "Playing the Ruler Ping Pong", popular in Sichuan and Chongqing. It is said that Sichuan bamboo qin originated from Taoist music, and later developed into a wide popular folk, bamboo qin artists walk the streets and alleys to spread the simple values and morals to a wider range of people, is a kind of folk art with regional characteristics.
The master and disciple pondered carefully
"Master, you listen to my 'ascetic practice' in the 'Ascetic Practice in the Eight Virtue Ponds'..." On an ordinary day in late September, Tang Yu came to the Zhoushi Cultural Experience Hall where Teacher Luo Dachun was located with the newly printed score of "The Legend of the White Snake" and asked Master for advice. Asceticism, not crying practice, you listen to this pronunciation..." After listening to the students' singing, Luo Dachun immediately pointed out the problem and demonstrated the correct pronunciation. The master and disciple pronounced word by word, trying to show the most distinctive "Legend of the White Snake" with a bamboo piano.
Unreserved and obligating. In the course of the day's study, we saw the enthusiasm and persistence of the traditional music artist Luo Dachun as the inheritor of intangible culture.
The process of passing on the art takes it seriously
Luo Dachun learned to play the piano at the age of 9 and took the stage at the age of 12, and he has been associated with the bamboo qin for more than 50 years, and he has witnessed the arduous process of the development of the bamboo qin in Sichuan. "In the early 1980s, we performed more than 70 times a year, and in the late 1980s, we performed more than 20 times a year, and then there were no performances..." Since the reform and opening up in the last century, the rapid development has also brought about the prosperity and renewal of culture, and the ancient bamboo piano has gradually faded out of people's vision and become an endangered form of music and art.
It is gratifying that in 2008, the bamboo qin was listed as the intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province, and in 2009, Luo Dachun was rated as the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of the bamboo qin. Since then, a sense of mission and responsibility has made Luo Dachun re-hold the bamboo piano and devote himself to the inheritance of the bamboo piano. Immediately afterward, Luo Dachun volunteered to go to more than 20 district, city and county schools in Chengdu and ate a lot of closed doors, but this did not repel Luo Dachun, who was as persistent as a "missionary".
His efforts were not in vain, and finally impressed Duan Xiaoli, the principal of the Qingshuihe Campus of Sichuan University at the time, who expressed the hope that Teacher Luo Dachun could enter the campus to inherit the bamboo piano and attract a group of children to participate in the singing of the bamboo piano. For the first time in Wuhou, ZhuQin approached the child in such a way. In that year, in order to cooperate with the third International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival, Mr. Luo Dachun and the teachers of the Provincial Qu Art Troupe and the Municipal Cultural Center created the children's bamboo piano program "Inheritance" that expressed non-genetic inheritance, and the children of The Small Qingshuihe Branch of Sichuan University competed with artists from Spain and Austria, so that the bamboo qin appeared on the stage of intangible cultural heritage in this special way to attract attention. Free teaching, post money to teach, as long as someone comes to learn, "this show from creation to stage performance, although from the beginning to the end is out of their own pocket, but let the bamboo piano on a larger stage, it is worth it." Luo Dachun recalled that the affirmation brought by the intangible cultural heritage stage also strengthened Luo Dachun's path of inheritors.
Children bring bamboo harps to the intangible cultural heritage stage
Today, Mr. Luo Dachun has established a heritage base in four schools, including Chengdu Longjiang Road Primary School Branch and Sichuan Normal University Affiliated Primary School, and has also selected outstanding artistic talents from all over the province to inherit the art of bamboo organ, and Tang Yu from Sichuan Conservatory of Music is one of them. "I added a lot of bamboo piano elements to my graduation concert, which attracted the attention of our classmates and teachers, and I hope that in the future, bamboo piano can also enter the science and class colleges, so that more professionals can experience this ancient artistic charm." Tang Yu said so.
The bamboo piano has achieved remarkable results in entering the campus
In recent years, Mr. Luo Dachun's outstanding works such as "Bamboo Village Tea House", "Pomegranate Blossom", "Ma Lin Morning Song" and so on have won a number of awards in the Sichuan Provincial Qu Art Competition and the National Qu Art Competition, especially the "Sound of Bamboo Piano" created and performed by Tang Yu and the Dazhu County Cultural Center has also won the nomination award of the "Peony Award", the highest award of Chinese music art in 2020. "Now we have more than 1,000 performances a year, which is a fundamental change from the situation more than a decade ago." Teacher Luo Dachun said that it is precisely because of such a group of persistent music artists that more people can appreciate the style and charm of the bamboo piano, so that our traditional culture can bloom again.
Bamboo piano art enters the campus
(Wuhou Rong Media Reporter Zhang Ji)