Yuan lived in the United States for a long time, living in a country with material civilization, and needed spiritual sustenance, and China culture was his refuge. Besides Guqin, he also likes China literature and calligraphy, and finds that the connection and inheritance of musical phrases in Guqin are similar to literature. It also has * * in common with calligraphy techniques such as frustration before and after, lingering for a long time and flying white. He asked his friends to make antique piano bricks with ceramics, and once put a marble board on the piano table to discuss different sound effects.
Yuan Shi learned calligraphy from Zhang Longyan, a calligrapher, and gained a lot of experience. He has held "Mo Jianyuan Calligraphy Exhibition and Guqin Performance" on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and in the United States. In his view, calligraphy and guqin art have always represented the highest expression of China's humanities, and the cultural significance and spiritual level of aesthetics and philosophy between them have profoundly influenced China culture. Since ancient times, Shu Dao and Qin Dao have been regarded as a way for a gentleman to cultivate himself.
Wu once told Yuan that the sound of the piano has infrasound and strong penetrating power. The sound waves of the piano are shocked by the sound waves of the brain. No wonder Yuan feels calm and stable every time he hears the piano. He also tried to play guqin in high mountains and deep forests, Pinghu courtyard, cold and hot in Yin and Yang, and by the water in Hazama jade, and experienced the relationship between nature and guqin.
"I often wonder why the same piano, the same finger, the same song and the same person have different rhymes because of their age experience. I think what is different is the mastery of speed and rhythm fingering, the change of temperament and the different experience of life. "
He lamented that most people don't know guqin now. There are such beautiful arts in China culture, but they are facing the crisis of being lost. How to make more people in China enjoy learning will be the biggest task for a generation of piano players. During the Cultural Revolution (1966- 1976), the damage of guqin made it almost extinct. During this period, the old guqin people died one after another, and the famous guqin was destroyed one after another, including making stringed instruments. On June 7th, 2003, 165438+ UNESCO declared Guqin as the second batch of oral and intangible cultural heritage of mankind in the world, and the study of Guqin culture set off a climax in the world.
Yuan said that the music content of Qin includes all kinds of ancient traditional music. In the early days, Qin was an instrument for wizards to communicate with heaven and earth, and later it was a ritual vessel in sacrifice. With the formation of the feudal system, Qin gradually broke away from the form of ritual and music ensemble and became an instrument that can be enjoyed by all walks of life, especially as a means of self-cultivation and cultivation, and monks also used it as a means of cultivation. Scholars and professional musicians of past dynasties have left many valuable materials, from which we can see the various relations of Qin in music, literature, history, society, art, aesthetics, philosophy and religion, and explore the cultivation of self-cultivation with Qin.