Music is the art of expressing emotions after human beings are satisfied with their food and clothing. Through the selection and combination of different music, it has an impact on the human body. Music has a regulating effect on people's body and mind, and some psychologists also use music as a means of treating diseases.

Calm down

Ordinary musical instruments make people feel heartbroken, but Guqin can make people feel calm, cultivate the mind and adjust the breath.

According to the principle of meditation, choose excellent and elegant guqin music to obtain the effect of health care. The melody is round, the rhythm is soothing, and the loudness is soft, which is very suitable for meditation. After listening to the elegant music, people will be immersed in it, even enter a state of ecstasy, and take it easy. Any kind of art can relieve people's stress, but the music expressed by Guqin is richer, more subtle, deeper and more powerful.

Pass through the meridians

The requirements for the body when playing the guqin are: relax the whole body, keep the chest and back straight, sink the shoulders and drop the elbows, and the feet are flat on the ground. Put your hands on the surface of the piano and put your whole body's air into your fingertips to play. When playing the guqin, the fingers dance on the strings.

Chinese medicine believes that the fingers are the ends of the upper limbs of the human body, where the qi flow flows and returns, and there are 6 meridians in the five fingers. The heart, lung, large intestine, small intestine, pericardium, Sanjiao and other meridians start to connect at the tip of the finger, the lung meridian ends at Shaoshang point of thumb, the large intestine meridian starts at Shangyang point of index finger, and the pericardium meridian ends at Zhongchong point of middle finger, Sanjiao The meridian starts at Guanchong point of the ring finger, the heart meridian ends at the little finger Shaochong point, and the small intestine meridian starts at the little finger Shaoze point.

In the guqin performance, the fingers directly touch the strings with the half armour and half flesh, and the left hand is required to "press to the wood". The right hand requires "playing the string as if it is broken". The main fingerings are: support, split, wipe, pick, hook, tick, hit, pick, pinch, wheel, pluck, thorn, etc. In the process of playing, the whole body is naturally relaxed, relying on the coordination of shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists and fingers, and focusing on the fingertips. , The effect of health care. Therefore, the guqin has always been regarded by Chinese literati as the primary instrument for self-cultivation.

firm will

Qin can heal illness. First of all, it is manifested in that the qin can smooth people's emotions, express their emotions, relieve depression, make people feel calm, open-minded, optimistic and open-minded, which is very beneficial to the treatment of emotional diseases. In addition, the five tones in the qin correspond to the five internal organs of the human body. The "gong" is connected with the "spleen", which helps the spleen to be healthy; the "shang" is connected with the "lung", and the qi is stimulated; the "horn" is connected with the "liver", which relieves depression and suppresses anger; "Zheng" is connected with "heart" to regulate blood vessels; "feather" is connected with "kidney", soothes the mind and calms the mind.

Song Ouyang Xiu recorded in "Send Yang Zhi Xu" that he was depressed, unhappy, and suffered from emotional illness. He later recovered from the illness through the sound of the piano, and introduced this method to his friend Yang Zhi. It mentioned: "I have tasted a disease of anxiety and sorrow, and I retired and lived alone, and it cannot be cured. However, if I want to calm my heart and nourish my disease, I will also have it in Qin." It shows that the occurrence of the disease is related to melancholy emotions. Medicine can only resolve the pain, but the sound of the piano can make the heart calm, so as to achieve the effect of curing the root cause.

Secondly, playing the qin can make one's mind focused and distracted thoughts are eliminated, so that the mind is calm and concentrated, and the essence is restrained. Ji Kang, a famous scholar, is both a famous qin master and a health-preserving family. His famous work "On Health-keeping" put forward the concept of health preservation of "Qingxu Jingtai", and advocated Laozhuang's "inaction" thought. Xi uses the rising sun, and Sui uses the five strings to make the spirit "self-satisfied with inaction, wonderful body and mind", the spirit, mind, heart, and body are all still, and things and things are forgotten, so that the true qi can run without stagnation, and there is no violation of the six evils outside. , without the interference of the seven emotions, it is helpful for the recovery of the disease.

Bai Juyi suffered from wind disease in his later years, and the guqin was also his spiritual comfort. He wrote:

The nature is good, and the dust machine is empty.

A sound came to the ear, everything was distracted.

Clear and smooth to eliminate disease, Tian and good nourishment.

You should listen to the three music and comfort the Pulsatilla.

breath

Judging from the content of Guqin music, there are not only peace and benevolence in Confucian culture, purity and transcendence in Taoist culture, but also rich life wisdom that is not limited by genres, such as the unrestrained romance of "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms", "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" The freedom and wildness of "Drinking Maniac", the generosity and arrogance of "Guangling San".

The familiar historical figures behind the content of the music and the cultural atmosphere of the same strain make the Chinese people easily infected by the ideology and emotions in the music. Play it yourself, it's better. Therefore, listening to guqin music often can calm emotions, enhance immunity, and relieve bad emotions such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression. If you can play the guqin, it can be said that there is another opportunity for cultivation. To play the guqin, you need to adjust your breathing, adjust your sitting posture, and you need to use air to move your fingers.