Folk music "out of the circle" Erhu exploded on the screen "It seems that the old man came" to take you to experience the soaring of strings

China Network December 28 news (reporter Su Xiangdong) With the popularity of the national style, Chinese folk music is hot "out of the circle". From the New Year's Eve concert of Station B last year, the Chinese music master Fang Jinlong "battled" the 100-person orchestra, the duel between Chinese and Western instruments, detonated the whole audience; to the recent pipa performance of "Lanling King's Entry Song" amazing four seats, the video playback quickly exceeded 13 million times; and then to today's "National Style Girl" Chen Yimiao exploded the screen with an erhu... Three generations of practitioners and enthusiasts have relayed the work, making Chinese folk music a national style music sought after by the "Z generation".

Two strings play a thousand styles Erhu has become a symbol of Chinese music culture

What is the force that makes the somewhat "high-cold" folk music constantly become "tide"?

On the video bullet screen of "Lanling King's Entry", "Generation Z" responded: "The genes in the blood are awakened, how can you not love this music that is full of intestines." ”

In the view of Chen Yimiao, a 17-year-old girl from the Erhu family, traditional Chinese music, which has been passed down for thousands of years, exudes different charms in different eras. Inheritors of different eras will follow the changes of the times and adapt and innovate traditional music. "When Grandpa was a child, the image of erhu was sad and tragic, which is also a portrayal of people's lives in the old era; now, the national tide is booming, and erhu can play some young and energetic music that conforms to the characteristics of the times." "I use erhu to play the rich repertoire of Chinese and Western countries, that is, to let more people know the richness of erhu, let everyone like erhu, like Chinese music, and look for the future of erhu together."

The popularity of folk music is undoubtedly a manifestation of the vitality of China's excellent traditional culture.

Empress Erhu and vice chairman of the Chinese Musicians Association, Song Fei, said in an interview with Wang Xiaohui, editor-in-chief of China.com: "Chinese music is a mother tongue culture that has long existed in the bloodline. Today's inheritance is to awaken and activate the Chinese cultural genes that are integrated into our blood. ”

Among traditional Chinese folk music, erhu art matured late, but it has been widely circulated in the last century. Although there are only two strings, it can pull out all kinds of feelings and play a thousand styles, becoming a symbol of Chinese national music culture.

The second season of the large-scale live-action cultural in-depth interview program "Like the Old Man Comes" produced by China Net attempts to explore the trajectory of the development, evolution and inheritance and innovation of Chinese folk music with Erhu as the representative.

"Two Springs and The Moon" is most popular in the West, and Ozawa said that he should kneel down and listen

"We always say that the five-thousand-year civilization in China, if we trace it back in terms of the history of music, has reached nine thousand years." Seinfeld said.

The earliest Musical Instrument in China was a 9,000-year-old bone flute unearthed in Wuyang, Henan. The flute made of crane bones can easily substitute people into the light spiritual realm of Xianle Fluttering.

At the "Heaven and Earth Tonghe - Ancient Chinese Musical Instruments Exhibition" held at the National Museum, Seinfeld met an old friend who had been missing for a long time, that is, a huqin with a history of more than 200 years, and she used this huqin to play the ancient Chinese song "Hanqiu Gongyue".

"When you play the old huqin, it's like communicating with an old man, it has a lot of stories, and when you touch it, you will tell it."

According to Seinfeld, as a traditional Chinese national musical instrument, the Huqin (Erhu), which began in the Tang Dynasty and was called "Xiqin" in ancient times, has a history of more than a thousand years.

Liu Tianhua is the ancestor of modernism, he advocated the improvement of Chinese music, drawing on and absorbing the composition theory of Western music and the playing technique of the violin, and carried out systematic and comprehensive reform of the erhu. His works such as "Bird Talk on the Empty Mountain" and "Bright Walk" have made the erhu shine, so that the "begging" erhu, who has always been in a folk state, has finally ascended to the elegance of music and art.

Hua Yanjun (Ah Bing) has greatly promoted the development of Erhu on the road of following tradition and drawing nutrition from the folk, and the far-reaching "Erquan Yingyue" is its representative repertoire. In 1985, the United States selected 10 of the most popular pop songs in the West, and "Two Springs And Moon" ranked first. The world-famous conductor Seiji Ozawa was moved to tears when he heard this piece: "This kind of music should only be listened to on your knees..."

There are more than 160 processes in the production of erhu, and the barrel is placed for two or three years

In the erhu production studio, Wang Xiaohui, accompanied by Seinfeld, visited the production process of erhu, personally experienced the birth of erhu, knew the types of huqin, understood more than 160 processes of erhu production, and the last one was winding, bundling thousands of pounds, loading the piano code, and matching the bow...

"The dry barrel is left for two or three years to adapt to the climate, and the process from preparation to piano preparation is quite long." Erhu producer said.

"The production materials are different, each erhu is also different like a person, after it becomes a living body, it will have its own personality, and the sound will have different characteristics." Just now the piano is like a little girl, the tone is pure, this one is softer, as if the human character is more restrained and inclusive. Seinfeld said: "Erhu is China's intangible cultural heritage, is a record of historical and folk life, with the heart, with the brain, with the ear to feel the melody, you can hear the ancient wisdom of the voice." ”

Wang Xiaohui said: "The exhibition of ancient Chinese musical instruments shocked me and made me feel China's long-standing excellent traditional culture. The theme of 'harmony between heaven and earth' impressed me deeply, because Chinese culture is a 'he' word at its roots, and Chinese music, like Chinese music, embodies the character and behavior and way of thinking of Chinese, and the harmony of ensemble highlights the soul of Chinese folk music. ”

Erhu as a long-standing musical instrument, it was introduced to China a thousand years ago and gradually evolved into a Chinese local instrument, in the past hundred years, after generations of outstanding erhu music composers, performers, educators efforts, the Erhu as the representative of the Chinese music art, and from China to the world.

At 21:00 on the evening of December 28, the second season of "It Seems to be the Late Man" invites you to enter the world of erhu and feel the vicissitudes of history, ancient and modern joys and sorrows between the flying strings. The program was simultaneously broadcast on China Net, Jiangsu Satellite TV, Sina Weibo, Station B, Baidu Baijia, Tencent Video and other platforms.