China News Service Suzhou, May 20 (Huang Ying) At a video website New Year's Eve party, countless pipa player Fang Jinlong played on the 19th and 20th for two consecutive nights in Zhouzhuang, a water town in China. Show the charm of Chinese music again.
In an interview with the media, Fang Jinlong picked up a bottle of mineral water and started to play music. He can play nearly 100 musical instruments. He said, "Music is everywhere in life, and anything that can sound can be turned into a musical instrument."
As always, in addition to playing, in the performance, he also found fun bridges in traditional instruments, forming paragraphs and burdens, so that the audience can both enjoy the laughter and understand the knowledge of national music. Fang Jinlong laughed and said "way talk show" ". He said, "Music education in China is still lacking compared with the West. It needs to be more popular, and to enhance the fun, it can more convey the happiness brought by music, and let people appreciate the infinite charm of Chinese culture in laughter."
Play the five-string pipa wonderfully, leading the audience to the world of music in many countries. Fang Jinlong used the techniques of playing, picking, knocking, turning, whisking, sweeping, picking, etc., a five-stringed pipa, which made the audience feel the Beijing Sanxian, the Udeqin of the Two Rivers, the Sitar of India, the Indian drums, and the folk music of American country music. The flexible interpretation of pipa by guitars, even electric guitar music, has changed people's stereotypes of traditional musical instruments, and has passed through ancient and modern China and foreign countries.
Fang Jinlong said, "People talk about Chinese classical culture, they think of 'qin chess, calligraphy and painting', and the qin is ranked first. China is a state of etiquette. The traditional characters of ritual (ritual) are provided with music. It says, "A hundred illnesses are born of qi, and they stop at the sound." Good tunes can shock people and comfort people. "
During the epidemic, Fang Jinlong and his son Fang Songping jointly created the anti-epidemic music "Illumination", which has a beautiful melody but is full of power. He explained, "The dialogue between Pipa and Guqin. The overtone of Guqin is like acupuncture. The next xiao is massage, hoping to heal the hearts of more people and inspire everyone's confidence to overcome the epidemic."
Fang Jinlong regretted, "Chinese culture is profound and profound, but a lot of things are being lost." As a folk music worker, he has been actively engaged in rescue work in recent years. "We have to bring back the lost things and restore them as soon as possible." "This is also his original intention to recover and improve the five-stringed lute that has been lost for thousands of years.
He remembered deeply that for the first time he saw the Tang Dynasty Luotan red sandalwood five-stringed pipa collected in Zhengcangyuan, Japan. "That was the national gift from the Tang Dynasty to the Emperor Shengmu of Japan. It is the only well-preserved ancient Chinese lute. "After returning to China, he consulted a large amount of information and sought out the piano maker. After repeated debugging and improvement, he continued to add a bass string to the four-string lute, so that the lute has More expressive.
Walking through the water town of Zhouzhuang, feeling the slow life in the south of the river, listening to the warm and hospitable Zhouzhuang people talking Wu Nong soft words, evoking Fang Jinlong's childhood memory and touching his creative thoughts. He said that the millennium ancient town retained small bridges and flowing water people, and innovatively carried out multicultural activities, so that the ancient town really "live" to make more and more people like Zhouzhuang. "We also need to inherit and promote a good national music culture, and constantly stimulate her vitality. I will use my whole life's energy to continue to learn and continue to spread." (End)