Jinghu is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument with a history of more than 200 years. In Dezhou, there is such a craftsman who has acquired the unique skill of making a hand-made violin. After repeated polishing and carving, the light bamboo pole has turned into a Jinghu with a transparent sound, simple and beautiful, and has also won a national award. A few days ago, Lightning News reporters visited the Dezhou Economic and Technological Development Zone.

Jinghu is the most important musical instrument in the accompaniment of Peking Opera. Dezhou Fu's Jinghu is all hand-made, with exquisite selection of materials, exquisite workmanship, full and bright sound quality, round and crisp sound, and its production skills have been selected as the representative project of provincial intangible cultural heritage. Fu Rongshan, 76 years old this year, is the inheritance of the project. people.

Fu Rongshan said, "A good Jinghu must first be of a reasonable size. It must look good, have a good voice, and have good workmanship. Only then can Jinghu be good. It is not easy to achieve these items."

Fu's Jinghu is composed of qin rods, qin barrels, pegs, qin hooks, bridges, strings and qin bows. A good piano wants to be sensitive in pronunciation, clear and round in tone, and the raw material bamboo must be excellent in terms of texture, age and moisture. For this reason, Fu Rongshan always selects the best materials carefully. He once got into the mountains and forests in the south, and spent more than half a month to bring back 9 bamboos, and finally selected 2 bamboos for use.

For example, Luo Han Bamboo is one in ten thousand, and its shape is divided into 'Thirteen Taibao' and 'Seven Section Whip'. Bamboo's habits are different, and the effects are also different. "Fu Rongshan said.

It is understood that the production process of Fu's Jinghu is complicated, and it has gone through dozens of processes such as roasting the rod, drilling and ironing the shaft hole, roasting the cylinder, researching the rod cylinder, covering the snake skin, making the bow, hanging the strings and tuning the piano. For more than 50 years in the business, Fu Rongshan has made many bold technological innovations, overcoming the disadvantages such as the upward movement of the piano barrel and the squeezing of the inner and outer strings. At the same time, he has mastered the unique skills of making the shaft hole and the combination of the rod and cylinder. The shaft holes of each Jinghu are tightly seamed and flexible in rotation. After the rod and cylinder are combined, they are tight but not tight, and they can be extracted freely.

Fu Rongshan said that every Jinghu must be tightly seamed in the hand. The easiest way is to block the mouth of the barrel with your hands and blow in. The joints of the gaps do not run out of air at all, just like the inner tube of a bicycle. The finished product is both beautiful and practical, and the peg will not fall off no matter how shaken it is.

Files, wrenches, calipers, steel cones, milling cutters... These small tools are Fu Rongshan's "eighteen weapons" for making Jinghu. Every morning at 5 o’clock, he would sit in front of the tool table on time, adhering to the craftsman’s spirit of keeping improving, and polishing every detail repeatedly. Treat it like a treasure.

Fu Rongshan said frankly, "A pianist not only has to have craftsmanship, but also has to do it with heart in order to do it well. Some people can't achieve the level they want after working for a lifetime. This is also related to people's temperament. A pianist must You have to take this craft very seriously, every Jinghu has a soul."

Over the years, Fu's Jinghu has won national awards such as "China Jinghu Fine Qin", and Fu Rongshan has also won the honorary title of "National Excellent Luthier". Fu's Jinghu has spread from north to south, and more than 20 literary and art groups and professional pianists from more than 20 provinces and cities came to order it. Traditional skills are precious in inheritance. Fu Rongshan has visited schools, communities, literary and art groups, etc. for many times, voluntarily promoting and teaching Jinghu production skills, and his grandchildren also learn and promote this old craftsmanship under his leadership.

Fu Rongshan said, "I just hope that the craftsmanship of Jinghu can be passed down. We must start from the dolls. The more people who learn it, the better, and everyone can learn it. This is a precious heritage of society."

"Through my own efforts, I hope that more young friends in the surrounding area will understand the craft of Jinghu making, and feel the charm of traditional Chinese opera culture more, so that this old craft can be passed down from generation to generation and carried forward."