Guqin, also known as "Qin" and "Yaoqin", is one of the oldest musical instruments in our country, according to legend, Fuxi or Shennong's Qin, this is five strings, King Wen of Zhou, King Wu each add a string and set as a seven strings, to the Eastern Han Dynasty period of the basic stereotype, Tang and Song dynasties to descend more perfect.
Guqin in the traditional Chinese cultural system carries a very deep cultural significance, the qin is one of the "eight sounds", is used to communicate the altar and temple ritual music of heaven and people and the court music of the guests, the qin is the scholar self-cultivation, lyrical ambition of the basis, known as the "four arts" and "eight elegance" of the first, the guqin has accumulated many legends and stories of sages and scholars, virtue and style, forming a grand view of the guqin culture.
The guqin collection of the Palace Museum is mainly based on the old collections of the Ming and Qing courts, as well as state allocation, social collection and donations since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Forbidden City now has 88 pieces of guqin, from the Tang Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, the chronological sequence is complete, and the best instruments are displayed, which can reflect the development history of the guqin more completely.
The piano has four beauties: one is good quality, two is good at cutting, three is wonderful, and four is right. "In this exhibition, on the basis of displaying the precious instruments collected by the Forbidden City, we also restore the music "Qiu Hong" from the Forbidden City to a sound that can be heard, supplemented by related utensils, let us start an encounter with the shape, sound and god of the guqin!
Shen Xiuping, the qin master, is a descendant of Shen Taishao, a pianist in the Ming Dynasty, and Shen Caonong, a guqin master in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China. Shen Xiuping dropped out of school at the age of 12 due to the death of both his parents in childhood. In the same year, when I heard "Flowing Water" on the radio, I was attracted by the sound of the piano and yearned for it. Later, he apprenticed to carpenter with his master, went through Jiujiang, Shandong, Dalian, and then became acquainted with guqin masters Jiang Xixi and Liu Peng in Beijing. At the beginning of enlightenment, on the road of the qin, he worked tirelessly to learn from famous teachers, from playing to chopping the qin, and then to creating the "Huaguo Guqin" brand, full of awe and sticking to the original intention.
As a traditional craft that has been inherited for thousands of years, it integrates culture, art, rhythm, aesthetic cultivation, carpentry, lacquerwork and other technologies. The raw materials are harsh, the process is complex, the production time is long, the qin is also the heart, each guqin is the crystallization of ingenuity and wisdom, a well-selected material, the production process of the guqin, can go through the previous year without decay.
In order to refine and display the spiritual identity and essence of Chinese civilization, cultivate the cultural roots of the Chinese nation, and promote the creative transformation and innovative development of China's excellent traditional culture, Shen Xiuping, the founder of "Huaguo Guqin", looks forward to the majority of qin lovers visiting the "Great Sage's Relic Voice" exhibition of the Zhongcui Palace of the Palace Museum to understand the production of the guqin, and appreciate the beauty of the guqin's sound and rhyme, the beauty of the shape, the beauty of lacquer, the beauty of antiquity, and the beauty of fingers.
Note: Content: China.com.