Enjoy Zhifu's "Culture Enters Thousands of Homes" Guqin and elegant rhyme to welcome the Dragon Boat Festival

91 views · Organized by 琪琪 on 2022-06-06

A century-old house with carved beams and flower windows, the ancient style is still as beautiful as ever. The sound of the piano in the courtyard is long, and a gentle woman is playing the guqin in front of the old house.

At 7 o'clock in the evening on June 3, in the Qianhu Cultural Compound of the Imperial City of Yantai, the "Qin Yuqin Dragon Boat Festival Guqin Concert" is going on. More than 20 guqin lovers gathered together to listen to the sounds of mountains and flowing waters, appreciate the beauty of traditional culture, and pray for the Dragon Boat Festival health and well-being.

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The performance was hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Zhifu District Committee of Yantai City, co-organized by the Zhifu District Culture and Tourism Bureau, and organized by the Zhifu District Cultural Center and Blue Sky Cultural Tourism. The activity aims to fully tap the profound connotation of traditional festivals and intangible cultural heritage culture, create a distinctive and harmonious festival atmosphere in Zhifu District, enhance the humanistic feelings and spiritual strength of the general public to respect morality, be grateful and forge ahead, and improve the civilized quality and quality of citizens. The level of social civilization will promote the creation of Yantai's national civilization model city to a new level.

Tang Xuanzong once said in a poem, "The number of days in the May, the five-tone Xia Jun. In the old days, it was passed on for five days, and everything was called a god." It can be seen from the poem that there was a custom of listening to the "five-tone" elegant music during the Dragon Boat Festival in ancient times. The art of guqin is the oldest instrumental performance form in Chinese history, with the highest artistic level and the most national spirit, aesthetic taste and traditional artistic characteristics. Feel the long history of Chinese civilization in the classics."

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At the scene, performers Wang Xiyao and Teacher Xiao Yao played classic songs such as "Listening to the Rain in the Mid-mountain", "Lanxiang Stream" and "Drinking Crazy", which were well received by the audience. The whole event was wonderful and orderly and contained cultural charm. The simple and elegant atmosphere and the distant sounds of nature made everyone seem to have traveled back to ancient times and received an "immersive" guqin culture. In the interview, the two teachers expressed the hope that today's performance will allow more people to understand the breadth and depth of traditional culture and love it more, and they will spare no effort to contribute to the inheritance of Guqin culture.

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古琴雅韵迎端午 非遗所城绽芳华

Involving musical instruments

Guqin (pinyin: Gǔ Qín) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument with a history of at least 3,500 years. Guqin is also known as Yaoqin, Yuqin and Seven-stringed Qin. The guqin has 13 emblems that mark the rhythm, and is also a ritual and musical instrument. It belongs to the silk in the octave. Guqin has a wide range, deep timbre and long aftertone.

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