"The scorching summer retreats to the Maozhai, and there is dew on the bushes under the steps." In the late summer and early autumn, he walked into the ancient lotus pond again. On August 3, the Evening News published the article "Guqin has ancient rhyme, and the lotus pond is more fragrant", which attracted the attention of the public, and many people came to the ancient lotus pond to visit the Guqin Art Museum. On the afternoon of August 11, Ge Ruizi, deputy director of the Guqin Art Museum, introduced the Guqin culture and celebrities in the history of Baoding to reporters.

"There are many historical celebrities who like the guqin. From our Baoding, there are Emperor Yao, Yang Jisheng, Zhang Ruishan, etc." "Post-80s" Ge Ruizi does not look at his age, but when it comes to guqin, he is well-informed.

According to reports, according to legend, Emperor Yao was born in Yiqi Mountain, Shunping County, and was later sealed in Tang County, so he was called "Tang Yao". "Emperor's Century" contains: "Yao wrote the "Da Zhang", making Wuju a five-stringed qin, and the world is harmonious." Zhu Changwen, the author of the "Qin History", listed Yao as the first: "The emperor Yao lived in the world... when the "Da Zhang" This is the work, the sound of the qin has been harmonized!" The qin piece "Shen Ren Chang" is said to have been composed by Emperor Yao.

Also related to Guqin culture is Yang Jisheng, the head of the Ming Dynasty's counselors. Yang Jisheng is a native of Beihezhao Village, Rongcheng County. At the age of 34, he became the head of the Nanjing Officials Department. He learned the knowledge of Lulu under the tutelage of Han Bangqi, the minister of the Nanjing Officials Department. The instruments such as Guan, Qin, Se, Xiao, Sheng, Xun, Chi and other instruments he made were "combined with all kinds of music. It is said that some people now collect a guqin made by Yang Jisheng, called "Hanquan Shushi".

There is also Zhang Ruishan from Baoding, who was born around 1835 and studied violin with Mr. Qingrui and Mr. Sun Jinzhai. With superb piano skills, he was the violinist of the Empress Dowager Cixi. In addition to the guqin, Zhang Ruishan is also good at playing pipa, hurricane and other musical instruments. He cooperated with Liu E, the author of "The Travels of the Old Can", to compile the "Eleven Strings Pavilion Qin Score" handed down. In 1871, the "Banana Leaf Mountain House" was established in Beijing Liulichang for selling and selling guqin. His son Zhang Lianfang is also famous for repairing the lacquer surface of the qin without breaking the lines.

In addition to these three people, there is also Mr. Li Yuxing, the second-generation descendant of the Guqin Nine Doubts School. In the late 1940s, Mr. Li Yuxing worked for a period of time in the Civil Affairs Department of the Hebei Provincial Government in Baoding, during which he also taught his colleagues to play the piano. Since the office at that time was in the courtyard of the Zhili Governor's Office, in his spare time, he could often go to the lotus pond to observe the inscriptions on inscriptions, appreciate the lotus and compose poems.

There is a stone tablet from the seventeenth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1891) in the southeast tablet gallery of the lotus pond. Because the forehead of the tablet has not been seen, and the title part of the upper right corner of the tablet has been damaged, it is temporarily named "Chongguang Liyue tablet". The inscription mainly tells the deeds of Zhili officials in renovating the regulations of ritual and music, cultivating children of ritual music, teaching singing and dancing, increasing the production of ritual music instruments, formulating ritual and music regulations, etc., and improving ritual and music education in Zhili Province. Among them, "Qin Liu and Se Si" were added for the measures of Confucian rituals.

Looking at the words on the stone tablet, the reporter came to the water inlet at the northwest corner of the lotus pond garden. There is a group of architectural sketches named after the word "qin", consisting of Xiangqin Pavilion, Xiangqin Stream, Xiangqin Bridge and Tingqin Building. composition. Beneath the Xiangqin Pavilion is the Xiangqin Stream, and the Xiangqin Bridge spans over it. It used to lead chickens from the spring to enter the garden. The flowing water is melodious and melodious.

Watch the lotus and listen to the ancient rhyme, and the flowing water sounds the sound of the piano. The Guqin Art Museum is located in the ancient lotus pond, which can be said to add another story to the history of the lotus pond.