Speaking of which, the great painter Li Keran's lifelong wish has never been realized. He can only sit at his desk and draw a bull with a brush. The bull he draws has both shape and spirit, naive and full of strength. He is called the "Four Wonders of Chinese Ink Painting in the 20th Century." Although his paintings of cows were auctioned for nearly 300 million yuan, who knows what this great p...

"If you want to do good work, you must first sharpen your tools." All Jinghu enthusiasts have a common wish, that is, they want to have a few good Jinghus that they like. How to choose?  The selection method I summarized it into five words: "look", "weigh", "play", "knock", "pull". (1) "Look": "Quality" is good, "size" is accurate, "bamboo" is violent, and "meat head"...

I'm used to reading fashion magazines and trendy brands, but today I'll show you something different. This is the twenty-one band from the Qing Dynasty that swept the world. You must not have thought that this Qing Dynasty band had debuted in the C position and led the fashion. Just the folk music playing and painting have been sold at home and abroad. Painted Traditional Chinese Musical ...

Teacher He Shunxin once taught me: "The performance of Jinghu is mainly about strength and flavor." This classic theory highly summarizes the way of performing Jinghu. How to understand the relationship between energy and taste? The first is, "Jade is not cut, it will not become a vessel." With inner strength, it is just like a raw jade with no splendor, and only relying on the charm of i...

When jinghu luthiers play the qin, they often put a cloth under the qin barrel. Many people think that this is just for the sake of cleaning and to prevent the rosin powder from staining the clothes, so the choice of the cloth is very arbitrary. In fact, in addition to the above uses, there are more important functions. That is: to stabilize the huqin and improve the sound q...

Zhang Jiawei, a huqin performer from the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, held a special Huqin music exchange at the small theater of the Taijiang District Cultural Center. At the scene, in the style of a talk show, he gave everyone 7 Huqin instruments in one breath: the Erquanqin specially tailored for the performance of "Erquan Reflecting the Moon", the coconut shell made of coconut shells for the...

Fragrant cars and BMWs are rolling in the dust, and they are not as good as the strings of the huqin. Jinghu, also known as huqin, is the main accompaniment instrument of Peking Opera. A good Peking Opera is inseparable from Jinghu, which has a transparent and mellow tone. Recently, in a studio on the North Street of the newspaper, I saw Zhang Zhixin, a luthier who has been making Jinghu by han...

In the White House Theater of the Opera School Affiliated to the Shanghai Theater Academy, children from the Opera and Music Department sounded Jinghu. Although they have not yet learned to play, they are still young, but their solemn and serious expressions are moving. The Jinghu in their hands came from the same owner, the late Wang Liping, former deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Pa...

In order to fully implement the State Council's guiding opinions on the development of social organizations and implement the tasks assigned by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the China Social Arts Association established the China Social Arts Association Artistic Proficiency Examination Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Grade Examination Committee). Experts and professors in vario...

Jinghu is composed of various accessories such as qin burden, qin tube, snake skin, qin bow and so on. To make a good huqin, you are very particular about the tune, the material, and the size. You can choose a suitable Jinghu from the following methods. 1. Qin Dazai: The porcelain should be solid, plump, and the pattern should be beautiful, usually using purple bamboo. Purple bamb...