Boya's teacher knew his idea and took him to Penglai Island in the East China Sea by boat, so that he could enjoy the natural scenery and listen to the waves of the sea.
Boya looked up and saw the waves surging and splashing; Seabirds are roaring and singing; The lush trees in the forest are like entering a fairyland. A wonderful feeling arises spontaneously, as if the harmonious and beautiful music of nature is ringing in the ear.
Boya couldn't help playing the piano, and her voice turned at will. He incorporated the beauty of nature into the sound of the piano. At this moment, Boya experienced an unprecedented realm. The teacher told him, "You have learned."
One night, Boya took a boat to Hanyang estuary, where she was caught in a storm and anchored at the foot of a hill. In the evening, the wind and waves gradually subsided, the clouds cleared and the scenery was very charming.
Facing the cool breeze and bright moon, Boya was full of thoughts, so he played the piano again, and the sound of the piano was melodious and getting better. Boya played one song after another. Just as he was completely immersed in the wonderful piano sound, he suddenly saw a man standing motionless on the shore. Boya was taken aback, and his men pulled hard, and a string broke with a bang. Boya was wondering why the man on the shore came, when he heard the man loudly say to him, "Sir, don't be suspicious. I am a woodcutter, and I came home late. When I came here, I heard you play the piano, and I found it great. I can't help standing here and listening. "
Boya looked at it carefully by moonlight, and there was a pile of dry wood beside the man. This is really a woodcutter. Boya thought, how can a woodcutter understand my piano? So Boya asked, "Since you know the sound of the piano, please tell me what tune I am playing?"
After listening to Boya's question, the woodcutter replied with a smile, "Sir, what you just played was Confucius' song praising his disciple Yan Hui. It's a pity that the strings were broken when you played the fourth sentence. "
Bo Ya was overjoyed when the woodcutter answered correctly. He soon invited the woodcutter aboard to discuss it in detail. When the woodcutter saw the piano played by Boya, he said, "This is a lyre! According to legend, it was made by ancient Fu. " Then he told the story of the lyre.
After listening to the woodcutter's story, Boya could not help secretly admiring. Boya played for him with great interest. When he played a song praising the mountains, the woodcutter said, "Great! This mountain is majestic and towering like Mount Tai! " When Boya played Rough Waves, the woodcutter said, "How wonderful! The flowing water is vast, like an endless sea! " Boya was very excited and said excitedly, "bosom friend!" You are really my bosom friend. "This woodcutter is Zhong Ziqi. Since then, the two have become very good friends. So Boya and Zhong Ziqi agreed to meet here this time next year.
The next year, Boya went to the meeting as scheduled, but after waiting for a long time, she couldn't wait for the next day. So Boya found it along Zhong Ziqi's last way home.
On the way, Boya met an old man and asked him where his home was. Boya's investigation shows that the old man is Zhong Ziqi's father. The old man told Boya that Zhong Ziqi had to chop wood and study, and his family was poor. He died half a month ago.
When Zhong Ziqi died, he was worried that Boya would wait here for a long time, so he asked the old man to inform Boya on this day.
Boya was heartbroken after hearing the news. Boya accompanied the old man to Zi Qi's grave and played the piano to mourn his best friend. After the song was sung, Boya broke the piano in front of Zhong Ziqi's grave and vowed never to touch it again.
Since then, there has been an allusion that "mountains and rivers meet bosom friends, and Boya plays the piano to thank bosom friends". Later generations praised the story of Boya and Zhong Ziqi, and built a memorial hall here called Qintai. Qintai is a famous historic site in Wuhan, with Guishan in the east and Yuehu in the west.
According to ancient records, during the period of the Yellow Emperor, China's music advanced by leaps and bounds, and elegant music appeared. Most of the content of gagaku belongs to the voice of praise. In the Yellow Emperor, Yayue was called "Xianchi", which means that all virtues were implemented; Yao Shi's elegant music is called "Da Zhang", which means great virtue and clear understanding.
Shun, Yu, Xia, Shang and Zhou have their own elegant music. For example, Shun's elegant music is Shao and his elegant music is Wu, which was very popular in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Confucius enjoyed the music at that time very much. He once commented that Shao Le is perfect and Wu Le is perfect.
Elegant music flourished in the Zhou dynasty, and the emperors of the Zhou dynasty all knew the political purpose of using music. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and when attacking Yin, the army danced in front of the song to boost morale. After the Yin Dynasty was destroyed, he made two large-scale songs and dances, Elephant and Dawu, to praise the meritorious military service.
Since Zhou Gongdan, all kinds of etiquette and ritual music in aristocratic life have been formulated one after another, making music serve the consolidation of kingship. They juxtaposed ceremony, music, punishment and politics, that is, political power and law, ritual rules with patriarchal clan system as the content, and elegant music combined with ritual rules, which constituted the internal and external pillars of aristocratic rule. Therefore, in the late Western Zhou Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn Period, the golden age of elegant music appeared.
There are many kinds of aristocratic etiquette recorded in Zhou Li, Yi Li, Li Ji and other places in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty, among which there are many kinds related to music. For example, suburban clubs, tasting, eating, rural shooting, provided by Wang Normal University, and marching in the field.
"Suburban society" is a sacrifice to the gods of heaven and earth; "Taste" is a sacrificial ceremony for nobles to sacrifice their ancestors; "Dining" is a political banquet, including the banquet of the emperor or vassal, the banquet of the vassal, the shooting of the emperor or vassal, and the emperor's sympathy for the old vassal.
"Rural Shooting" is a gathering ceremony for aristocratic landlords in the village, including regular banquets, drinking in the village and meeting them. "Presented by Wang Shida" is a triumph celebration held during the victory of the war; "marching field suit" is used for hunting in the nature of military exercises.
The Zhou Dynasty had strict rules about what ceremony and what music to use. By the Zhou Dynasty, the specific modes and compositions used in the singing, dancing and instrumental music performance of elegant music, the playing order of different music, the types and quantities of musical instruments, and the arrangement orientation of musical instruments all had specific provisions, and even the route taken by musicians when they were in place.
In the Book of Rites written by Dade, a famous writer in the Han Dynasty? There are many such examples in Zhong Ni's salt plays.
The Book of Songs records the lyrics of various important ritual music in the Zhou Dynasty, most of which belong to elegance and harmony, and a few belong to Nan.
The etiquette of these ceremonies in the Zhou Dynasty, and the accompanying elegant music, have a solemn and mysterious atmosphere, which, like the bronzes and other handed down works of art at that time, has the beauty of simplicity, solemnity and solemnity, which is determined by the autocratic monarchy and the aesthetic concept of singing praises for a few nobles.
Musical instruments used in elegant music in Zhou Dynasty, such as chimes, chimes, etc. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to manufacture, which ordinary people don't have. Later, the more noble music boasted about wealth, the more exquisite and luxurious musical instruments were made. During the Warring States period, there were many records of casting big clocks. Musical instruments such as bells and chimes are often used as valuable diplomatic gifts, sometimes including musicians.
Elegant music in Zhou Dynasty is the product of the combination of ritual and music, and the concept of hierarchy goes deep into it. There is a strict boundary between the types and quantity of musical instruments used by nobles of different grades and the number of dance teams.
There is a huge royal central music institution in Zhou Shi, which is responsible for music administration, elegant music performance and aristocratic music education. There are many people, fine division of functions and complete system.
Because the Zhou emperors attached great importance to the political role of elegant music, they regarded music as an important part of aristocratic education, including poetry, books, rituals and music, and called it "four techniques". Children of nobles must receive this kind of education in accordance with the prescribed time and procedures.
The development of elegant music in Zhou Dynasty concentrated the achievements of nobles and slave owners in music culture in the late Bronze Age, which was of great significance for consolidating the feudal order of slave society, accumulating the experience of music art practice, and developing many aspects of music culture such as music system and musical instruments.
After nearly 400 years of prosperity, the political function of Yayue gradually disappeared with the decline of Zhou Dynasty, and its various regulations on application were not observed, so the princes and nobles became tired of Yayue and loved pop music.
According to the Book of Rites written by Dade, a writer in the Han Dynasty, Wei Wenhou once told Xia Zi that he was afraid to lie down and fall asleep when listening to elegant music, but he was full of energy when listening to popular music.
In this regard, Confucius once lamented that "the ceremony collapsed and the music was bad." In the later feudal society, although Yayue kept its place by political power, it was lifeless, let alone artistic.
Later, almost all the elegant music was preserved in folk music. After the change of its content and mood, it has become a ritual dance of the upper class, many of which are treasures of China traditional culture and have strong cultural connotations. For example, Chun Xue in the pre-Qin period is one of the top ten famous guqin music in China. According to legend, it was written by a musician of Jin State or Liu of Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period. Yangchun and Snow White are two instrumental music in the existing piano score. Later, Zhu Quan, the son of Ming Taizu, compiled the Magic Secret Spectrum, which once said when solving problems:
"Yangchun" means that everything knows spring and the wind is light, and "Snow White" is awe-inspiring clean and beautiful snow bamboo.
Chun Xue shows the beautiful scenery of early spring when winter goes and spring comes, the earth recovers and everything is thriving. The melody is fresh and smooth, and the rhythm is relaxed and lively. Yangchun Baixue is a pipa divertimento composed of eight or six varieties of folk instrumental music.
There are two different versions of Yangchun Baixue, namely Dayangchun and Xiaoyangchun. Da Yangchun is 10 and 12. Xiaoyangchun, also known as Allegro Yangchun, is very popular.
Xiaoyangchun is divided into seven sections, namely, Taking the Lead, Waving Lotus in the Wind, A Full Moon, Jade Edition Meditation, The Sound of Iron Policy Board, The Sound of Taoist Piano, and The Sound of Gao Donghe. The seven paragraphs of the whole song can be divided into four parts: beginning, continuation, rotation and combination, which is a variation with cyclical factors.
"Xiaoyangchun" has the best beginning, and there are eight variations with the length of 17 at the beginning of the song, which reappear in the next three parts of the radical cycle. The original 8-board melody has been polished by techniques such as sound insulation and flowers, and the melody is full of vitality by using semi-circle, clip-on, push-pull and other playing techniques.
The bearing part is a lotus flower and a bright moon. These two variants of the eight-board, after the head reappears the eight-board head, the melody rises twice and moves in the high-pitched area, showing enthusiasm.
Turn is the jade version of meditation, iron policy board sound, Taoist piano sound. There are many expanding factors in these three paragraphs. The first is the division and inversion of music structure, and new beats and strong division rhythms appear.
Secondly, playing fingering, such as score, board, overtone, etc., makes the music light and smooth from time to time and powerful from time to time. In particular, the piano sound of Taoist temple is full of overtones, just like pearls, large and small, pouring on a plate of jade, crystal clear and full of vitality.
The contact person is Gordon heming. This is the dynamic reappearance of the headquarters, the tail is enlarged, and it is handled at the speed of first urgency and then slowing down. It adopts a strong and powerful method of sweeping strings, and the music atmosphere is extremely warm.
The allusion of Chun Xue comes from Song Yu's answer to the question of the king of Chu in Qu Yuan's Songs of Chu.
King Xiang of Chu asked Song Yu, "Is there any hidden virtue in your husband?" Why don't people praise you so much? "
Song Yu said: "There was a singer in Ying of Chu State. At the beginning, I sang "The Lower Liba People", and there were thousands of people in the middle school.
When the singer sang Lu Yang, there were only a few hundred people in the middle school.
"When the singer sang Chun Xue, there were only a few dozen people in middle school. When Song added some difficult skills, there were only two or three people in middle school. "