Chinanews.com, Zhengzhou, January 16, title: "Konghou Girl" restores nearly 200 ancient konghou models, hoping to rejuvenate the millennium ancient music
Author Kan Li
Lu Lu from Xinxiang, Henan is a konghou player.
In addition to performing, she is working on restoring more konghou instruments, so as to rejuvenate the millennium ancient music.
She was elected as a member of the Henan Provincial Political Consultative Conference for the first time this year, and she gave suggestions such as building the "No. 1 Township of Konghou" and promoting the matrix of intangible cultural heritage.
Konghou is a multi-form and multi-source musical instrument. It had a great status in ancient China. It was on par with national intangible cultural heritage such as guzheng and pipa. It was once used by court bands, but it was gradually lost.
In recent years, based on the shapes depicted in the murals and reliefs left in the grottoes, artists have restored the multi-shaped konghou thousands of years ago. It is shaped like a harp and its main body is bow-shaped.
The attraction of Kong Hou to Lu Lu began more than 20 years ago.
She was studying at the High School Attached to the China Conservatory of Music, and met the founder of Chinese contemporary konghou art who was selecting inheritors.
"I was so ignorant that I was soon attracted by the harp and its beautiful notes," Lu Lu said.
In 2018, Lu Lu and her team built a konghou art industrial park in her hometown of Xinxiang.
As a performer, Lu Lu's original intention is to have a konghou that suits her heart's desire.
But with the passage of time and the increase of her love, she slowly embarked on a road of rescuing, protecting and researching the harp, and established the Konghou Museum to restore and display the musical instruments on the murals.
Data map: Lu Lu playing.
Photo provided by the interviewee
Lu Lu said that the restoration process is quite complicated, and it takes about 15 processes to complete an imitation konghou. "Collecting mural pictures, making engineering drawings, extracting data, including the length and thickness of strings, pitch, pitch, and timbre must be considered. Go in and start making."
At present, Lu Lu and the team have restored nearly 200 types of konghou, each of which is different.
In her view, restoring musical instruments is to revive the thousand-year-old ancient music, making the musical instruments as close as possible to the ancient objects in the murals. There have been harp-related murals in Longmen Grottoes, Shaolin Temple eaves, and Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes.
Lu Lu told reporters that there are many branches of konghou, and the historical marks of konghou can be found in at least 60 countries.
Konghou has different names in different countries, and she called the instruments that look like konghou in different countries pan-konghou musical instruments.
In Lu Lu's view, every time she goes overseas for an exchange performance, she will resonate with the local performers. The same shape of musical instruments is engraved with the imprints of different countries, and the performers interact and communicate with different musical expressions. "This is not only The exchange of art is the exchange of Eastern and Western cultures.”
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