China News Service, Taiyuan, June 7th, title: "Guoxue fever" drives the guqin industry to heat up the thousand-year-old ancient music "picks" new students

　　Author Gao Yuqing

　　Recording a video to participate in the election and enter the final election... Recently, Liu Yao, a girl born in the 90s in Shanxi, is preparing to participate in the third "Hongqin Cup" Guqin Art Exhibition, a national guqin competition. She is the first to participate in this competition. "I hope to get experience and inherit good Guqin art."

　　In recent years, "Guoxue fever" has been heating up in China. Variety shows such as "National Treasure", "National Music Ceremony", "Chinese Poetry Conference" and other variety shows have successfully "out of the circle", setting off a new trend of "national tide".

Driven by the "Chinese Studies Fever", like Liu Yao, more and more "post-90s", "post-00s" and even "post-10s" have begun to learn Guqin.

This ancient art is gaining more recognition from young people.

　　Guqin is one of the oldest plucked string instruments in China. It has a history of more than 3,000 years and is the most lofty instrument in ancient China.

Guqin has the characteristics of wide range, deep tone and long reverberation. In 2003, it was selected as a world intangible cultural heritage.

　　Liu Yao loves everything related to traditional culture.

The reporter found in her circle of friends that from ancient poems, guqin, ancient architecture, to tea parties, lectures, and painting exhibitions, her life is full of "poems and distant places."

Everyone who saw her said, "This girl has a sense of antiquity, and she is a good match for Guqin by nature."

　　For Guqin learning, Liu Yao started late.

In 2012, at the age of 21, she decided to join Shanxi Tang Organ Society and learn Guqin with Peng Jianjun, its president and guqin player.

"In the beginning I took it as a hobby, but I didn't expect to be a Guqin teacher now." Liu Yao told reporters that she hopes to carry forward and inherit this thousand-year art.

　　In the past 30 years of Xi Qin, Peng Jianjun has trained nearly 3,000 students, many of whom are "post-00s".

"In the end, about one-third of them can persist." In Peng Jianjun's view, method and diligence are two important factors for practicing Guqin.

He believes that no matter what kind of traditional culture is learned and inherited, it takes time to settle and experience, "like singing, you can't get on stage within ten or eight years."

　　In 1992, 18-year-old Peng Jianjun began to learn the guqin, and at the same time he had the first guqin in his life.

After more than ten years, he has successively studied guqin artist Ma Jie from Nanjing Guangling School, famous guqin player of the Central Conservatory of Music, and representative inheritor of guqin art from the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects, to improve guqin skills.

　　In 2003, under the initiative of many literary and artistic experts and artists in Shanxi Province, the Shanxi Tang Organ Society was established in 1946.

Peng Jianjun, who serves as the president of the agency, has a sense of responsibility.

"Guqin has profound historical and cultural connotations, full of expressiveness and appeal, and it is important to keep its original things and pass them on." Peng Jianjun said.

　　Speaking of the practical significance of the guqin, Peng Jianjun said, “It’s not that the guqin is an old antique. We show this old object to others from time to time, and it feels like we are very proud. If it were me, I would feel that this is meaningless.” He thinks, Guqin is a forward-looking art, and its potential is far from being unearthed. Therefore, it is necessary to pay more attention to the excavation of its humanistic spirit.

　　With the rapid development of the Internet, in recent years, more and more non-genetic inheritors have displayed and spread Chinese traditional culture through new media platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou.

Last year, Peng Jianjun opened the Douyin account and released Guqin playing videos from time to time.

He hopes to let more young people understand and fall in love with Guqin through exhibitions, performances, and teaching.

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