Brief introduction of Taoist priest and musician Zhang Kongshan in Qing Dynasty, his masterpiece "Running Water".

On the characters experience, Zhang was a Taoist in Qingchengshan Temple during the Xianfeng period. At that time, many people came to Qingcheng Mountain to ask for a piano. However, Zhang himself often travels abroad, exchanging piano skills with guanxian Taoist Yang Zidong and Qian Shouzhan, the author of Qian Shilian.

In the early years of Guangxu (1875), after that, Zhang lived in the Tang family, helped him to carefully revise hundreds of piano scores he had searched for for for many years, and selected 145 pieces and compiled them into "Tianwenge Piano Score", which was the most received since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Guangxu thirty years (1904) taught piano in Wuchang and trained many piano experts. It was handed down from Huayang Gu Yucheng (not Shao Geng). His two sons, Gu Juan (Zheqing, 1879- 1949) and Gu Yu (Zhuo Qun,1881-kloc-0/936), passed on his knowledge and compiled his biography into Hundred Bottles of Piano Music. Gu organized a piano club in Changsha, Peng Qingshou1912-1916.

Social activities 1 NASA unmanned starship Voyager 2 launched on August 20th, 977,1sister ship Voyager1launched on September 5th, 977, all carried Voyager's gold records engraved with 90-minute chimes, including 27 world-famous songs, including Chinese Guqin "with 7 minutes and 37 seconds. The organizer and composer of this song "Running Water" is Zhang Kongshan, a Taoist priest at the Erwang Temple next to Dujiangyan.

During the Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, Zhang Kongshan, a Taoist priest who trekked thousands of miles in Qian Shan, stopped in front of the Erwang Temple. He leaned down, touched his heavy and tired feet, and then looked up at the red sunset. He couldn't help sighing. He was too tired to walk. It's time to have a rest. He devoted his life to the excavation and arrangement of Chinese classical music. A song "Running Water", which he has used for more than 30 years, still has no clue. Before going to bed, Zhang Kongshan gently put his only bag: a roll of piano music and an ancient piano on the bed. This is his life spirit. He treats them well and cherishes them, because he knows that since the death of Zhong Ziqi and Yu Boya, there is no complete flowing music score in this world, and this guqin in his hand has been passed down from generation to generation through the touch of Sima Xiangru, a master of Hanfu. He can't help loving them. He even dedicated his life to every string on the guqin.

When Zhang Kongshan woke up, he seemed twenty years younger. His mind is blank, and the music that has been silted up, blocked and stagnant in his heart for decades flows out naturally like running water, flowing lightly and winding down. He couldn't wait to get up, light the oil lamp and take out the running music under his pillow. While humming a tune, he tapped his fingers on the edge of the table excitedly. At this time, the bright moon in the courtyard, sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, a few calls added a bit of quiet meaning. The Minjiang River, which runs along Leiyu Mountain, is magnificent and surging, and the sound of the waves is accompanied by the sleepless of Zhanggan Mountain. Zhang Kongshankou, who was suddenly enlightened from confusion, stumbled to the river with the music score and the guqin in his arms, put the guqin that accompanied him all his life on a stone, cut his hair, tightened his belt, sat cross-legged in front of him, and closed his eyes slightly. Even his face that had been dry for many years became moist and plump in an instant, only to see his fingers touching. "Zheng-",a melodious piano sound and gurgling sound of running water came from the Minjiang River. On the moonlit river, the sound of the piano rippled away, and Zhang Kongshan's wandering thoughts flowed slowly with a song "Running Water". The music flows slowly. At first, it was like a trickle. After that, like a deep spring coming out of the mountain, the wind rises and the water surges. It has become an inestimable trend in Wang Yang. On the rolling stage, it's like a dragon roaring, just like crossing the Wuxia Gorge in a dangerous boat alone. Dazzling, thrilling. This body is in the mountains and rivers, which is doubtful. In the end, the canoe has passed, and the situation has become Wang Yang.

The main achievement is that Zhang Kongshan was originally a Taoist priest in Zhejiang, and studied piano with Feng in his childhood. During Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty (1851~1861), he traveled to Qingcheng Mountain in Sichuan. During the period from Xianfeng to Guangxu, he mainly taught Qin in Sichuan. During this period, he also traveled around Hubei and taught many disciples in Chengdu, Hankou and other places. He is considered as the main representative of Sichuan Qin family. The spread of "Seventy-two Rolling Brushes" and "Running Water" is magnificent and has been highly praised by piano players for a hundred years. The existing music scores of Ming and Qing dynasties are mostly 7 or 8 paragraphs. However, Zhang's Running Water has nine paragraphs, and the sixth paragraph is all curly, which is not found in any previous spectrum. The so-called "seventy-two strokes" came from this. Other paragraphs are similar to spectra. It is said that this song was taught by Feng. Because the rhythm and fingering of the sixth paragraph are strange and complicated, the original notation of subtraction is difficult to remember accurately. Therefore, when Zhang Kongshan studied this paragraph, it was all taught by Feng and there was no music score. Zhang Kongshan and his disciples were worried about his long-lost life, so they worked out a new music score, which was published in Tianwenge Piano Score (1876, the publication of Chengdu Ye), followed by the most widely circulated guqin music score. There are still many manuscripts of Guqin music by Zhang Chuanshi, which were compiled by Zhang's disciples. Their fingering rhythm and notation are different from those of Tianwen Pavilion, and they have not been widely circulated. In addition, Zhang Kongshan's Biographies of Qin Music include: Mountain, Confucius Reading Classics, Wild Goose Falling in Pingsha, Raining in Xiaoxiang Night, become a butterfly, Drunk Fishing Song Night, Yuqiao Q&A and so on.

Influenced by the characters, Zhang Kongshan learned the piano from Mr. Feng in his early years, and got Feng's biography. In addition, he studied hard and practiced hard, and his piano skills reached a superb level. High mountains and flowing water, falling geese in Pingsha, rainy nights in Xiaoxiang, Confucius reading the Book of Changes, drunken fishermen singing late, gulls forgetting their planes, Pu 'an mantra and so on. They are all his specialties, among which his original seventy-two rolling pens and running water are the most representative. This song not only became the first choice for future generations to learn, but also became a golden record in 1977. It was launched into the vast space with American Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, where it sought the "bosom friend" of the universe. Among the laity disciples he taught, two got their true stories, one was Ye Fu Jie and the other was Gu Yucheng. Ye later passed the piano art to his daughter Ye Wanzhen, who passed it on to his favorite student Liao, and Liao passed it on to his grandson Yu Shaoze. On the basis of summing up his previous experience in playing the piano, Mr. Yu Shaoze continued to carry forward the art of Sichuan-style guqin, which had an important influence in China and even abroad. Associate Professor Ceng Chengwei, a pianist currently teaching in Sichuan Conservatory of Music, is the grandson of Mr. Yu Shaoze and the sixth generation descendant of Zhang Kongshan. Gu Yucheng (no. Shao Geng, an old man with a hundred bottles of music, passed on the piano art to his son, modern guqin artists Gu Zheqing and Gu Zhuoqun, and Gu Zheqing also passed on his son, China modern guqin artist Gu (author of Guqin fingering and score compilation (co-author and editor-in-chief), Guqin music compilation (co-author and editor-in-chief) and so on. ). Gu Gengmei also inherited his daughter Gu Danru and his son Gu Zechang, famous contemporary guqin artists in China. Gong Yi, Lin Youren, Ding Jiyuan, Zhu Mohan and other contemporary famous guqin artists all studied under Mr. Gu.