An overview of guqin music "Xiaoxiang Shuiyun" Han Guqin music. Guo Mian (Wang Chu, born in Yongjia (now Pingyang, Wenzhou) in the Southern Song Dynasty, about 1 190? 1260). At that time, Yuan soldiers invaded Zhejiang, Guo Mian moved to Hengshan, Hunan, and often swam at Xiaoxiang interchange. Whenever Jiuyi Mountain is covered with clouds and water in the distance, seeing the scene of clouds and water rushing, it arouses his infinite feelings about the broken mountains and rivers and the wandering years, and creates this song to send his thoughts. According to legend, Jiuyi Mountain is the burial place of the wise Shun Di, so in people's minds, it naturally becomes the embodiment of the wise.
Guo Mian is an intellectual who has never been an official and lives in poverty. He lived in an era when Yuan soldiers invaded and the Southern Song Dynasty was about to perish. And he is a person who opposes stealing peace, has national consciousness and patriotic thought, so he borrowed Jiuyi Mountain for this purpose? Xiaoxiang is shrouded in mist and water? The image of; He pinned his indignation at the dark and untimely sages of reality and his love for the great rivers and mountains of the motherland. The music score was first found in the magic secret score, with ten paragraphs. After the experience, the pianist developed into eighteen paragraphs and one paragraph ended. There are as many as fifty kinds of music scores. After continuous processing by many musicians, this art has become more mature. At the beginning of music, elegant overtones make people enter the artistic conception of blue waves and smoke. The whole work is rich in scenes and profound in meaning. Since13rd century came out in China, it has been widely circulated for hundreds of years. This piece of piano music has been included in many piano music collections, and it has been recognized as one of the excellent piano music in past dynasties. In recent years, this kind of music is played in the evolution form of guqin and large national bands.
The creation background of the guqin song Xiaoxiang Water Cloud is that in the late Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan soldiers went south, Lin 'an fell, the officialdom was corrupt and dark, and the court favored Jiangnan. The author thinks that the times are drifting, and he is full of resentment about his country and people, but he can only watch the two rivers in Xiaoxiang surging, and Yao Si's hometown, "every wish is covered by Xiaoxiang Water Cloud", so he wrote Xiaoxiang Water Cloud as a souvenir. At that time, Chuwang Guo moved to the foot of Jiuyi Mountain in Ningyuan, central Hunan, with the invasion of the Song Dynasty by nomads from the Jin Dynasty. Mr. Chuwang Guo went boating on Xiaoxiang, poured water on the mountain, and looked at the clouds and water rushing in the distance. But at this time, the mountains were covered with clouds and water, and the sun was not seen, just like the status quo at that time. Therefore, Mr. Wang's heart is sad, like nine clouds, and he created "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud" to express his anguish.
This song was first written by Zhu Quan in Ming Dynasty, and its commentary said:? Mi Fei said that it was written by Qu Ye and Guo Mian from Wang Chu. Mr. Yongjia, a native of Yongjia, has nine desires, and is covered by the clouds of Xiaoxiang. However, the water cloud is a song, melodious and complacent, and the water is full of clouds; There is also the ambition of being full of wind and rain, being flat on one boat and being everywhere. ?
The musical analysis of the guqin music "Xiaoxiang Water Cloud" is in the solution of "Magic Secret Spectrum". It is said that the author? Every desire for nine is covered by the clouds of Xiaoxiang, with the meaning of wandering? . At that time, Yuan soldiers went south and literati moved south. Guo Mian settled near Hengshan Mountain in southern Hunan. The sight of flowing clouds and water aroused his complex feelings of loving the mountains and rivers of the motherland, feeling that the times are drifting and wanting to live in seclusion. This song was born in response to the situation. Music successfully shows the magnificent artistic realm by means of scattered sound, corresponding sound and swing music (that is, large-scale music). There are as many as 50 kinds of existing music scores. The music score in Ming Dynasty was originally 18, but it developed into 18 in Qing Dynasty.
Xiaoxiang water cloud is widely spread, with more than 50 kinds of music scores. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, the records in the magic secret spectrum were ten paragraphs; In the seventeenth century, it developed into twelve sections in the Great Ring Qin Song Score. In the18th century, it has been expanded to eighteen paragraphs in the Music Score of Wuzhizhai, and the modern general playing version is mostly the version played by Mr. Wu Jinglue according to the Music Score of Wuzhizhai.