Autumn is getting darker, the 2022 Guqin "Qiuyue Gathering" [1] and "Autumn Moon Gathering" [2] were successfully held on September 17 and September 18 at the Ancient Capital Cultural Hotel in Xi'an. This elegant gathering was hosted by the Shaanxi Academy of Arts and co-organized by the Chinese Qin Studies Research Office of Xi'an Conservatory of Music. Li Cun, director of the Northwest National Music Research Center, provincial representative inheritor of Guqin, and professor of Xi'an Conservatory of Music, was invited to give guidance.

More than 30 piano friends from all walks of life gathered together to meet friends, appreciate, play, share and inherit the precious intangible cultural heritage of the guqin. In the two elegant gatherings, the famous Guqin songs with different charms were performed in turn, and the exquisite skills of the performers presented a wonderful musical feast for the piano friends.

In the first "Qiuyue Gathering", the piano friends performed "Guan Shanyue", "Sunshine Three Layers", "Wen Wang Cao", "Long Xiang Cao", "Enai", "Da Hu Jia", "Zhuang Zhou Meng Die", "Guang Ling San" and other piano pieces . Among them, the ensemble "Guan Shanyue" by Qin and Xiao is very poetic, with a robust, simple and unrestrained musical style, showing the superb playing skills of the two performers.

"Guangling San" is a very famous guqin piece in the history of Chinese music, and it is also the finale of the first elegant collection. Its melody is passionate and generous, with high ideological and artistic quality. , which expresses the mood of this song vividly and vividly.

In the second "Qiuyue Elegant Collection", the piano friends performed "The Heart of the Qin and the Sword and Gallbladder - Guan Shanyue", "Three Layers of Sunshine", "Three Wonders of Wei Bian", "Drunk Fisherman Singing Evening", "Spring Xiao Yin", "Olu Forgetting Machine" ""Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms", "Flowing Water" and other piano pieces. The elegant collection kicked off with "Qin Heart and Sword Brave - Guan Shanyue". The show has a variety of performances. With the accompaniment of Guqin and Xun, Teacher Zhu Ruiqi performed a traditional sword dance. It is pleasing to the eye.

This elegant collection came to an end with the guqin song "Flowing Water". "Flowing Water" is one of the qin pieces with the most cultural connotation and wide spread among the existing qin pieces. It is a very expressive piece of music. "This is a legend that has been passed down through the ages.

The art of guqin is an important part of traditional Chinese music. It is pure and elegant, clear and distant, with elegant interest. It has a history of more than 3,000 years and is one of the oldest and most vital art forms in China. As early as 2003, China successfully applied for the art of guqin, and it was included in the representative list of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind by UNESCO. In 2021, our province successfully applied for the art of guqin to be included in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage list, and the protection unit is Shaanxi. Provincial Art Institute.

The development of elegant gathering activities is conducive to inheriting and promoting the excellent traditional Chinese culture, improving humanistic quality, and strengthening cultural self-confidence. In order to further publicize, protect and inherit the art of Guqin, Yaji activities will be launched one after another, so stay tuned!