First Divorce Forced To Become a Full-time Artist - Chapter 214

  Chapter 214 Chinese Culture: “High Mountains and Flowing Water”, “Ambush on Ten Sides”

  ”This song has a long history in China, and it is an ancient famous song.”

  Li An slowly introduced:

“In BC, a country in China was called Chu State, and a scholar in Chu State was named Boya. Boya was talented and intelligent and exquisite in piano art. When he was young, he had captured the charm of music and created “Mountain Flowing Water”. This tune is honored as the “Qin Xian”.”

   “Bo Ya’s opera has already reached the level of proficiency, but sadly, he has never found a soulmate.”

   “Later, Boya went to Jin to work as a doctor. Because of strong winds, he stayed at the mouth of the Hanyang River in China. After the wind calmed down, Boya sat on the bow of the boat and looked up at the bright moon.

   “After the tune was played, a woodman jumped out of the grass next to him. This woodman admired Boya’s piano art very much.”

   “Bo Ya asked the woodman: You can listen to the piano, can you know the quality of the piano?”

“The woodcutter replied: This violin is called Yaoqin. It was made by the Fuxi family. It was made from the middle section of the sycamore tree. The wood requirements must be three feet and three feet high, and then cut into three sections. The sound of the upper section is too clear, the lower section The sound is too turbid, only the middle section, with both clear and turbidity, both light and heavy. Then the tree was filled in the water for 72 days, looking for a good time to chisel it into a musical instrument. At first, this piano had five strings, and the outer metal was deposited. Wood, water, fire, and earth were used for palace, shang, horn, sign, and feather. Later, King Wen added a string, called Wenxian, and King Zhou Wu added another string, called Wuxian. Therefore, this piano is also It’s called the Wenwu Qixian.”

“After Bo Ya listened, he was convinced, and he tuned the strings and played the piano again. He played the tune of “Mountain and Flowing Water”. He played very emotionally, sometimes majestic and high-pitched, sometimes comfortable and fluent. The woodsman said while listening:’This The front part of the song E’e is like Mount Tai, and the second part Yangyang is like a river’.”

“Bo Ya was very happy after hearing this, pushed the piano aside, stood up, bowed to the woodcutter and asked the woodcutter’s name, and exclaimed: “How many people can I know the world, and know how many people can I know?” So he became brothers with the woodcutter. And agreed to meet here in the next year’s festive season.”

“The next year, Bo Ya came to the festival, but didn’t want the woodcutter to be gone. Boya played the piano in front of the woodcutter’s grave in pain. After playing the song “Mountain Flowing Water” again, he cut the strings with a knife and sighed: My confidant is gone, who am I playing for?”

   “After sighing, Boya smashed the qin on the altar, the qin broke.”

  “In later generations, people have born stories after this song, and formed several idioms. The most well-known idioms are ‘Bo Ya Jue Xian’, ‘It’s hard to find a friend’ and so on.”

  Li Ang spent three full minutes telling everyone the story about Bo Ya’s friend.

  Since it is to spread Chinese culture, the meaning of the tune must also be explained.

  Anyway, the time given to each national orchestra on the stage is one hour. As long as it is within one hour, it is not a violation.

   Including the United States and Ilida, it also told the audience a lot of stories.

After telling the story, the audience of the stadium and hundreds of millions of people who like music in the world also felt a sense of substitution. They watched the TV screen attentively, and watched the man sitting in front of the guzheng on the stage. Inch youth.

  On the VIP seats of the stadium, Kronte, who wears big pants as if he is in his own home, is full of interest, his eyes flashing with playfulness.

   “Bo Ya is absolutely amazing, is it hard to find a friend? Haha, I would like to hear it. Is this tune played with the so-called Guzheng, does it have the feeling of high mountains and flowing water?”

  ……

  On the stage, Ang Lee continued.

“Although this song “Mountain and Flowing Water” Boya was played on the guqin, after the research of later generations, it was found that the guzheng can be used to play it better. And what I want to play today is to play this song on the guzheng. “Mountain and Flowing Water”.”

  After telling the story, Ang Lee began to play.

  His ten fingers danced and jumped rhythmically on the strings, and suddenly, the guzheng heard a clear and sweet sound.

  Some people understand music well, and some don’t understand music.

  But it is not important.

  Because a good song must be able to infect people’s emotions and touch people’s feelings.

  And when Li Ang just started to touch the strings, the level of this piece has been revealed.

  Whether it is the audience at the scene or the audience in front of the TV set in various parts of the world, after hearing this song, they only feel an indescribable sense of relaxation in their hearts.

  It seems to be in the middle of a mountain, and it seems to be beside the murmur of water.

  The mind is extremely open, relaxed and natural.

  Gradually, gradually.

  These listeners closed their eyes one by one and began to immerse themselves in the music, listening and feeling the sound of the guzheng.

  A few minutes later, the song is finished.

  When the sound stopped abruptly, the audience was still immersed in the charm of the song.

  After listening to this song, they only felt that their mood eased, and their bodies seemed to light up.

   Immediately afterwards, countless small discussions sounded throughout the stadium.

   “Is this song called Gaoshan Liushui? After listening to it, it seems that I have indeed come to a piece of nature, and I feel peaceful.”

   “This is really a good piece. I have never heard it before.”

  ”Is this the tune of Huaguo? Is this the Guzheng, the national instrument of China? I feel that the tone is very clear.”

   “I really didn’t expect, I really didn’t expect that there is such a wonderful voice in this world? I feel that it is not much worse than “Alice in Dream Wedding”.”

   “Indeed, the sound and melody of this song is very strange.”

   “I used to think that the piano played the most beautiful sound, but now I find that this thing called Guzheng from China seems to be very powerful.”

   “Yes, I did see mountains and flowing water in the music!”

   “This musician on the stage is very material, and the sound he plays is also wonderful.”

“No, don’t you know? The young man on the stage is Li Ang, the champion of the Nalka Piano Competition. The “Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai” performed at this music festival was arranged by him, and it was him. Played on the violin.”

  Everyone is talking about it.

  Obviously, this song “High Mountain and Flowing Water” was a success, and it surprised everyone on the stage of the music festival.

  Not only these ordinary people, even Kront, Triest and others in the VIP seats, were surprised after listening to the music played by Ang Lee.

   “What! This is a tune played by Huaguo Musical Instruments? How could it be possible that the timbre of Huaguo Musical Instruments is so good!”

  Kronte’s expression has become a little difficult to look at.

  He originally bought the music festival’s organizer to dig pits for Li Ang to dance for Hua Guo, but he never expected that Hua Guo would jump without any hesitation.

  The key is that after jumping out of this pit, they can still perform so well!

  This is really impartial, and it happens to carry forward the music culture of China!

  ……

  ”Mountain and Flowing Water” surprised everyone and made everyone admire the instruments and music of China.

  This is a very good start.

  After playing this song, Ang Lee stood up, walked to the side of Pipa, and then picked up Pipa.

  Li An introduced to everyone:

“The instrument I am holding in my hand is called the pipa, which is also a stringed instrument. It has something in common with Western violin. However, the violin is played, and this pipa is also plucked. And our pipa is early It was made thousands of years ago.”

   “And the next piece I will play for you is also a famous piece in China that has been passed down for thousands of years. The content of this piece is magnificent and magnificent, and the style is majestic and exciting.”

  ”This piece also has a historical significance, and this significance is more profound than the previous performance of “Mountain Flowing Water”.”

   “I don’t know the audiences who are watching the show and live, have you ever learned about the history of China.”

   “If you know it, then you must know that our country of China broke out in a large-scale war between 206 and 203 BC, called: the dispute between Chu and Han!”

“The King of Chu is Xiang Yu, known as the king, and he can lift a heavy cauldron when he was young; the King of Han is Liu Bang. In the three-year-long war between Chu and Han, Xiang Yu lost to Liu Bang and gradually lost. “

“In October 202 BC, Han King Liu Bang led his troops to pursue the retreating Xiang Yu. After chasing to the south of Yangxia, Liu Bang ordered a suspension of the pursuit and sent an envoy to contact Han Xin, Peng Yue and others, promising to share the world with them in the future, and They sealed large tracts of land in Linzi, Daliang, and Huainan. Sure enough, the envoys returned one after another, and the princes were about to send troops.”

“Soon, all the princes sent troops to attack Xiang Yu’s army. Han Xin’s 300,000 soldiers and horses went south from Qi, cutting off Xiang Yu’s retreat to Pengcheng; Peng Yue led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to reach Guling and Liu Bang’s division and served as the main attack; Liu Jia and Yingbuzi Shouchun led his troops northward and cut off Xiang Yu’s way of fleeing south.”

  ”Xiang Yu’s army was besieged from all directions, they could only shrink and retreat to Gaixia.”

   “The battle in which Xiang Yu was besieged will be called “ambush on all sides” by later generations.”

  ”Han army’s ten-sided ambush is like a net of heaven and earth, while Xiang Yu’s counterattack is like a caged beast. Going down the battlefield, the killing sound shook the sky, the two armies struggled, you die and you live.”

   “Finally in the battle between the two sides, Xiang Yu gradually retreated, and Xiang Yu’s concubine Yu Ji also drew his sword and died.”

  ”Xiang Yu saw that the situation was gone, and led 800 cavalry troops to escape southwards overnight. At dawn the next day, Liu Bang found that Xiang Yu had broken through, so he sent Guan Ying to lead five thousand cavalry to chase after him.”

“Xiang Yu crossed the Huai River, and only a hundred cavalry continued to follow him. Xiang Yu got lost in the Yin Mausoleum, sank into the lake and marshes, and was pursued by the Han army. Xiang Yu led the troops and retreated to the Wujiang River, leaving only Twenty-eight soldiers.”

“Bian is docking a small boat. Ting chief Wujiang asked him to get on the boat and said: Although Jiangdong is a small place, it is thousands of miles away. I am willing to take the king back. Now only I have a boat here. They can’t get there until the Han army chases it. “

“However, the overlord Xiang Yu said:’Heaven is going to kill me. What’s the point of crossing the river? I took Jiangdong’s eight thousand children across the river, but now no one lives, even if my father and brother Jiangdong still support me, there is no face for me. See Elder Jiangdong!?’”

  ”The king Xiang Yu fought against the Han army in front of the Wujiang River, killing hundreds of Han army with one man! Xiang Yu was also seriously injured and unable to fight anymore, and eventually died of suicide!”

  Because the Chinese characters are extensive and profound, many idioms and classical Chinese are directly translated into popular vernacular by Ang Lee.

  Li Ang stood on this stage, telling the whole world about this classic historical battle, completely devoted to his own feelings.

  And Li Ang’s mood directly affected the entire stadium.

   “I have a little knowledge of the history of China, the king Xiang Yu? That is really an epic hero.”

   “Obviously you can cross the river to survive, but you have to fight and fight. In the end, you killed hundreds of people and died… Oh my god, is there such a **** man in China?”

   “I always think that Chinese people are very weak, and they are all sick men of East Asia. I didn’t expect to be so bloody.”

  After telling everyone about this.

  Li Ang continued: “And the next piece I will play for you is called “Ambush on Ten Sides”, and it’s the story I told you just now.”

“There are 13 paragraphs in this piece, which are battalion, trumpeting, commanding generals, platooning, marching, ambushing, Jiming Mountain battle, Jiulishan battle, Xiangwang defeat, Wujiang suicide, all army triumphant, Zhu Will strive for merit and victory back to the camp.”

“This piece perfectly describes the fierce war scene. Because of the magnificent content of the piece “Ambush on Ten Sides”, the style is majestic and peculiar, the atmosphere and mood are very in place, so it is very difficult to play this piece. The tune contains almost all the techniques of pipa playing, whether in terms of its content, technique or artistic expression!”

  When Ang Lee’s words fell, all the people watching the live broadcast in the entire stadium, the whole world, all boiled.

  In their hearts, their bodies all shuddered slightly.

   “Oh, mygod! What a joke, is he going to use the violin-like thing in his hand to play the story that he just told us?”

   “I also feel that he is totally joking, how is this possible.”

   “From this story alone, it is no exaggeration to say that this performance should be extremely difficult.”

  ”It should be fine if it is a large orchestra, but can he really play the pipa with a violin-like thing?”

   “Even if you use the piano, you can’t play the violin. Is it really okay to use that thing called the pipa?”

  The tens of thousands of people in the stadium, the tens of millions and hundreds of millions of people in the whole world who are watching the show, all made incredible sighs.

  Because the story Ang Lee tells is too grand and passionate, then in everyone’s opinion, if it is played with music, it must be extremely complicated.

  Large bands are fine, but solo solo? It’s too difficult.

  In the whole world, everyone is staring at the TV screen, staring at the young man with a small head on the stage in the screen.

  At this time, the young man with an inch head held the pipa in his arms, pressed the string with his left hand, and the five fingers of his right hand began to pluck the pipa.

  Music sounded, and in an instant, the pipa had a very rapid, majestic sound!

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  The ears have been sore in recent days! And tinnitus is very serious! My head is particularly dizzy, and I feel like the sky is spinning when I get up from the bed. Later I went to see a doctor in the clinic, and the doctor said that I might have a perforated eardrum!

  Later, I went to the District No. 1 People’s Hospital for an endoscope, and finally diagnosed that there was a big bag in my ear.

   is called: hemorrhagic bullous tympanitis.

   speechless.

  I have been dizzy these days, and my state is not so good, I will adjust it slowly…I hope the readers will greatly understand!

  (End of this chapter)