Chinanews client, Beijing, September 22 (Ren Siyu) If you can master an instrument, what do you want to learn most?
Piano, violin, guitar, drums, bass...
Recently, some people have begun to "upper" another traditional musical instrument. In this year's variety show, it often appears as a secret weapon. As long as it debuts, people can instantly feel the shock of reaching the sky:
It is Suona.
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The king of musical instruments or the hooligan?
When it comes to your first impression of Suona, what do you think of?
"As soon as Suona makes a move, he will be sent away immediately."
"Thousand-year pipa, Wannianzheng, an erhu pull for a lifetime, and the whole play ends with a sound of suona."
"I don't know the meaning of suona at the first time, and then I will be the person in the coffin."
Suona, an instrument known as "can blow from the full moon to the first seven", usually appears on occasions of great sadness and joy.
In "Wulin Biography", the shopkeeper Tong is bedridden. Everyone wants Yan Xiaoliu to blow the suona to wake the shopkeeper Tong. When Xiaoliu blows, the people next to him cry when they cry, and dance when they say dance.
"Wulin Wai Zhuan" Yan Xiaoliu blowing Suona fragment.
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Some people call Suona the "King of Musical Instruments". It can come both sad and happy. It can be imitated by hundreds of birds. Because of its loud sound and strong penetrating power, it is also called the "musical rogue". Regardless of whether the opponent is an instrument or an orchestra, as soon as the suona comes on stage, the others will immediately be silent.
The movie "Flash Girl" showed this famous scene:
Students studying Western musical instruments and national musical instruments are not convinced to fight each other. Guzheng, harp, erhu, violin, dulcimer, and piano come and go. When the two sides are equal, Suona suddenly appears. He disrupted the rhythm on the opposite side with his "big voice", and immediately used a trick "A Hundred Birds Face the Phoenix", which directly led the Chinese Orchestra to victory.
"Fighting piano" fragment of "Flash Girl".
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There are many theories about the source of suona. One said that it was introduced to China from Persia. By the Ming Dynasty, suona had been widely used. Qi Jiguang once said: "Where the horn of the hand is used to play the suona." "Also wrote: "The trumpet, the suona, the song is small and the tune is big."
In addition to the pleasure of the court and the army, the wider world of Suona is still among the people.
Whether in weddings or funerals, opening ceremonies, moving to new homes, making yangkos, holding temple fairs... it is indispensable. In the 1950s, Ren Tongxiang and other famous suona performers created "Hundred Birds in the Phoenix" and "A Flower "" and other classics, but also promote the prosperity of Suona art.
Data map: On September 17, 2013, 337 suona enthusiasts performed a suona unison performance in Shulan City, Jilin Province.
Photo by Cang Yan
After that, due to various reasons, Suona’s past glory was no longer there. This long-standing folk art gradually faced difficulties that were difficult to pass on.
In May 2006, Suona Art was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
Although there are more and more people studying music, there are still very few students studying Suona.
Many people’s biggest question about Suona is not whether it’s difficult or how long it takes to learn, but—
Will the neighbor complain about this at home?
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Perhaps because it is too grounded, the impression of Suona to the public is always inconsistent with "elegance", even when compared with traditional instruments such as Guzheng and Pipa, it is a bit inferior.
Many viewers saw the old generation of suona artist Jiao Sanye and his apprentices' dedication to the art of suona from the movie "Hundred Birds in the Phoenix", but the death of director Wu Tianming and the event that the producer "kneeled for the film" also made Suona. The status quo is more lonely.
Source: Stills of "Hundred Birds Face Phoenix".
When "everything can be suona"
In recent years, this ancient musical instrument has become more and more active on the Internet, and its image has changed from "earth and noisy" to "earth and foreign", "funny and fashionable".
Once upon a time, Yan Xiaoliu became the top spot of station B with his classic passages of Suona. After watching various versions of pop songs that seamlessly connect, netizens can no longer remember what they originally played.
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If you search for Suona now, you will find that the most popular is not the music of celebrations, but all kinds of weird mixes:
Suona plays "Love Cycle", Suona plays "Canon", Suona plays Jay Chou series, Suona plays anime songs, Suona plays European and American electronic music...
Just like Tengger sang "The Invisible Wings", the strong sense of contrast also made suona fire.
A curious netizen clicked on the video and couldn't help but "to be sent away", and at the same time he felt, "Hey? There is still nodding?"
Suona performance by the blogger "Ge Suona, A Sheng".
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On the Internet, hot searches related to Suona are always related to "funny".
Last year, a few students played the Suona version of "Kikujiro's Summer" in the classroom. When the suona sounded, it immediately became "The summer that Kikujiro could not survive".
At the beginning of this year, "Suona Love Cycle" was on the hot search. The blogger "Hun Yuan" wearing black tights used Suona to blow a version of "Love Cycle". Netizens commented: This is "Life and Death Cycle".
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And in the comment area of these videos, various funny stalks are often born:
"Lying on the bed and hearing this tune, I couldn't help but straighten my legs."
"Hanazawa Coriander's "Love Cycle" instantly turned into choosing coriander from the field.
"Listen, listen, I put the quilt over my head."
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Suona appeared frequently in several popular variety shows, injecting soul into the performance:
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In "Hip-hop 3", the performances of Yang Wentao and CICI surprised everyone, and the suona in the music "囍" together instantly added the emotional value to the fullest;
In the first season of "Summer of the Band", Jiulian live-action adaptation of "Mortal Song", the suona and trumpet battle shocked the audience. In the second season, Big Wave and Fu Lu Shou's "Sister You Boldly Go "Go Forward", Suona once again debuts vigorously;
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To make Suona even more out of the circle, there is also Yan Yongqiang, a contestant in "Tomorrow's Children Orchestra Season".
In the first episode of the show, Yan Yongqiang played Alan Walker's electronic sound "The Spectre" with suona, igniting the enthusiasm of the audience. After the program ended, his suona performance still occupied the first two seats of the top ten popular stages of the show. .
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Suona has kept up with the trend, what do you think?
Whether it is the suona in the ghost animal video or the suona in the variety show, behind these "fun" and "top" videos out of the circle, they are all attempts by musicians to change their inherent impressions.
In "Tomorrow's Sons Orchestra Season", Yan Yongqiang, who insists on playing suona, is not just this kind of instrument. In order to respect the harmony of the band, he can quickly learn a new instrument within two days.
But he also said, "If I have time to prepare, even if I lose, I will definitely use Suona to lose."
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These re-interpreted music with Suona let everyone see that, in fact, Suona is not as earthy as expected. It can not only sing love songs, but also be fashionable; although its sound is very domineering, it can also be well integrated in the band.
After the suona video became popular, the blogger "Lin Dian Dali" said in an interview that he had received many comments from netizens, saying that he suddenly wanted to learn suona after listening, and asked him where to buy suona.
The lead singer of the second-hand rose band Liang Long once said with emotion on the show, "Twenty years ago, no one looked at me at all. At that time we went to Beijing to play suona, saying it was pseudo-rock." Now we see so many young people performing suona. Applauded, he felt relieved.
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Some people say that it is the musicians who are good, not the instruments themselves, but it is precisely under the persistence and innovation of these people that the old musical instruments can still maintain a tenacious vitality in the new era.
Do you want to learn Suona?
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