Guqin origin:
Guqin is one of the oldest plucked instruments in China with a history of more than 3,000 years. Since ancient times, there has been a record in the Book of Rites that "a scholar left the piano and right the book" and "a scholar withdrew the instrument without any reason". This shows the importance of guqin to ancient literati.
Ancient books recorded Fuxi's piano-making, as well as legends about Shennong's piano-making, Huangdi's piano-making and Tang Yao's piano-making. Shun set the piano as five strings, adding one string and reducing one string to seven strings; It can be seen that Guqin culture has a long history and is profound.
Since ancient times, "Qin" has its specific meaning. /kloc-It was renamed Guqin in the 1920s to distinguish it from the piano. There is a saying in Qin that "a scholar does not withdraw the piano for no reason" and "left the piano and right the book". Qin ranks first among the four traditional arts "Qin, Qi, Book and Painting" in China. It is considered as a representative of elegance and an accompaniment instrument for literati to sing. Since ancient times, it has been a necessary knowledge and compulsory subject for many literati.
Guqin style classification:
Guqin has beautiful shapes, including Fuxi, Zhong Ni, Julian, Sunset, Ji Ling, Banana Leaf, Liezi, Lingguan, Shennong, Xiangquan, Shi Feng, Shi Kuang, Yafutou, Zhong Ge (He Mingqiu Yueqin), Sword Style and so on. Mainly according to the different neck and waist shapes of the piano body. The most famous Xiao Jiu Pei Huan is Fuxi style.
Guqin playing skills:
Tune:
The pitch of the guqin hollow string is not fixed, depending on the music played. The tuning of guqin is complicated, with as many as 35 modes. According to the pentatonic scale, the range has four octaves and a second degree. Among stringed instruments, guqin is a unique instrument. Its surface is a fingerboard, without columns or goods.
When playing, the piano is placed horizontally on the table, the right hand plays the strings, and the left hand presses the strings to pick up the sound. It depends entirely on the symbols of the Qin emblem (not limited to 13 emblem, many sounds are between emblems), and the intonation is extremely strict.
Sixteen methods of piano sound:
Leng Qian's Sixteen Methods of Piano Sound can be found in Nine Records of Banana Window in the Ming Dynasty. In fact, Sixteen Methods of Piano Sound put forward sixteen aesthetic categories, trying to summarize and lay the foundation for the aesthetics and performance of piano music. Sixteen methods are: light, loose, crisp, slippery, high, clean, clear, empty, secluded, strange, ancient, soft, harmonious, sick and empty.
Playing fingering:
When playing, put the piano on the table, pluck the strings with your right hand, press the strings with your left hand and pick up the sound. There are many ways of playing, such as breaking, hugging, rubbing, picking, hooking, kicking, hitting, picking and their different combinations, such as: wheel, lock, stack, pinch, roll, brush, calendar, doubles, wheel, etc. The left hand is mainly divided into two types: pressing tone and sliding tone.
According to the sound, there are kneeling, holding, squatting, pushing, planing, pinching, and so on. Sliding sounds include chanting, screaming, crashing, calling, entering, retreating, separating and so on.