The Zhangwudao Museum of Musical Instruments welcomed the staff of Tianjin TV station who wanted to do an exclusive interview with Zhang Shijia of Musical Instruments.

The third-generation musical instrument Zhang Junguo and the fourth-generation musical instrument Zhang Chuan-Zhang Yu not only introduced the production process of the guqin, but also showed the musical instrument Zhang, as a non-heritage family, a unique ancient method that has been passed down for a century. piano technique.

Tianjin Musical Instrument Zhang, as a municipal intangible cultural heritage, has inherited the ancient method of making traditional Chinese musical instruments with a history of more than 180 years.

"This inheritance system was also influenced by feudal ideology in the past, and there were some old rules such as passing on males but not females, and inside and outside. This situation has continued until my grandfather and my father handed over. Only the era can change, and our family's skills can be learned, inherited and even carried forward by more people." Mr. Zhang Yu said.

Relying on this skill, the musical instrument Zhang Shijia has developed so far, and has 20 national music halls, 2 directly-operated factories and 3 holding factories across the country. But even in the past years, in terms of production, ancient methods are still used everywhere.

There are 6 musical instruments Zhang Guang in Tianjin's National Music Museum. The venue for this interview, the Musical Instrument Zhang Museum located on the Fifth Avenue, is a collection of traditional Chinese music collections and valuable works that have been passed down from generation to generation in the family, thus witnessing the inheritance and development of Tianjin Chinese traditional music.

When it comes to ancestors, Mr. Zhang Yu is always eloquent. There are also related introductions in the various museums of Musical Instrument Zhang.

The first-generation descendant of the musical instrument Zhang is Mr. Zhang Fuqi, the imperial luthier of the famous Chinese Peking Opera artist Mei Lanfang - the luthier of Mr. Xu Lanyuan, and the luthier of Mr. Guan Pinghu, a famous Chinese guqin artist.

The second generation Mr. Zhang Peisen is the director of Tianjin National Musical Instrument Factory and the chairman of China Musical Instrument Association. After the public-private partnership, in the late 1980s, the country's first private national musical instrument factory - Tianjin Hongsheng Musical Instrument Factory was established, during which a large number of musical instrument production talents were cultivated for China.

Mr. Zhang Peisen (second from left) and Mr. Zhang Junguo (first from left) at Hongsheng National Musical Instrument Factory

In the 1990s, Mr. Zhang Junguo, the third generation, learned Western production theories and concepts, established an electroacoustic musical instrument factory, and integrated Chinese music production with Western production focus. Combining it with traditional Chinese cultural thoughts, he has created more instrumental works that conform to the meaning of Chinese aesthetics. His representative work, Zhang's Zen Qin, is even more distinctive.

As for the operation and external affairs of the current musical instrument Zhang, it is basically handled by the fourth-generation descendant Zhang Yu.

Influenced by generations of family members, he is proficient in the production of Chinese musical instruments and the playing skills of the guqin. While inheriting his family education, he also studied the guitar and shakuhachi with his love for music. Guqin works have not only been collected by Master Xingyun of Fo Guangshan, the Head of State of Malaysia, and Beiyang Lecture Hall of Tianjin University, but he has also become the keynote speaker of the Guqin art course of Nankai University in Tianjin, and has been listed as a young qin master by "Chinese Contemporary Guqin Masters". represent. Later, it was recognized by Mr. Fang Jinlong, a collector of Chinese music and a practitioner of Chinese music, and accepted him as a disciple.

"Actually, our family of musical instruments that are directly inherited are relatively rare in the world."

Mr. Zhang Yu has always been very proud of his family's heritage. He knows the responsibility on his shoulders, never forget his original intention, and forge ahead.

More than 180 years of wind, frost, sun and moon will take 6 generations to experience. During the period of social change, development, war... Although people today can understand through the data, but only by personal experience, can we truly understand the impact.

Such a family is a participant in history, but is it not a sculptor of history?