When the mountains and rivers meet the bosom friend, the heart of the sword and gall will cultivate the soul. Recently, accompanied by the vigorous, solid, handsome and distant moving melody, guqin player, educator, Tianjin Qixian Qin Academy director Zhang Zisheng came to Lanzhou National Academy with an excited mood. With Lanzhou's proud student Wang Fangyan and many other disciples in the "fireworks Lanzhou to welcome the New Year winter tour Jincheng to celebrate the New Year" series of cultural travel activities, "Xianglong Xianrui · Qin Jincheng" to welcome the New Year Guqin Ya collection activities. All the masters and disciples dressed up on the stage, with a heart-tingling, deep and quiet classical music tribute to the ancients of Chinese studies, interpretation of the beauty of the Golden City, highlighting the connotation and charm of Chinese traditional culture with a very artistic conception and taste, for the present Guqin lovers left an unforgettable memory.

Jointly build a first-class guqin culture training base

Guqin is one of the oldest plucked Musical Instruments in China, with a history of more than 3,000 years. It is the most exalted musical instrument in ancient China and is listed as the first of the four arts of "Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting". The guqin, with its wide vocal range, deep timbre and long aftertone, was selected as a world intangible cultural heritage in 2003.

"Fireworks Lanzhou to Welcome New Year Winter Tour Jincheng to celebrate the New Year" series of cultural tourism activities "Auspicious Dragon Xianrui Jincheng" to welcome the New Year Guqin ya collection sponsored by Lanzhou Municipal People's Government, Lanzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau, Lanzhou National Academy, Lanzhou Seven-stringed Harp Academy, designed to let the Chinese classic millennium rhyme reverberate across time Jincheng, so that everyone enjoy the spirit of pleasure at the same time, Increase cultural cultivation, improve the quality of civilization, and enhance cultural self-confidence.

Guqin collection activities in Wang Fangyan, Wang Lin, Li Bai ensemble in a piece "Shen Ren Chang" kicked off. The luthiers matched the overtones of the thirteen Hui positions and the outer tones of the Hui perfectly, with the subtle and low tone of the flute and the dynamic and powerful drum sound, to achieve a vivid and wonderful artistic effect. Subsequently, "Good Night", "Guangling SAN", "Long Xiang Cao", "Return to Ci" and many other classic traditional music played one after another, sometimes graceful and lingering to the heart, sometimes peaceful and steady sigh with regret oh, dense with a kind of emotional distant, like a beautiful landscape painting curling up a wisp of light smoke. Every time the song falls, there will be a loud applause.

"The sentiment and character carried by the Guqin flow in the blood of Chinese culture and are engraved in the soul of the literati." Wang Wei, director of Lanzhou National Academy, said with emotion: "Next, we will take this event as an opportunity to further strengthen the cooperation with Lanzhou Qixian Qin Academy, take the traditional festivals such as the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chongyang Festival as the node, insist on holding performance concerts, special lectures, exchange and other wonderful activities, and strive to build Lanzhou National Academy into another Guqin culture research base with domestic first-class professional standards."

Zhang Zisheng: The art of guqin will certainly flourish in Lanzhou

The influence of Guqin music on the human heart has been continuous for thousands of years. In 2008, the guqin performance at the Beijing Olympic Games amazed the world and promoted the guqin craze. What Zhang Zisheng has been trying to do is to use what he has learned and felt to leave something for the future spread of Guqin.

Zhang Zisheng began to learn the qin in 1989, under the tutelage of Jinmen Jiuyi school, Mr. Gao Zhongjun, Mr. Li Yunzhong, and then successively sought lessons from Liu Li, Wu Wenguang, Gong Yi, Li Xiangting and many other famous masters. In 1992, he won the highest prize in Hangzhou International Guqin Invitational Competition. In order to make himself involved in many excellent, he also asked in Jinmen ci writers Zhang Mushi, Cao Changhe, Wang Huanyong, calligraphy master Mr. Yu Mingshan and other predecessors. He is currently the vice president and secretary-general of the Guqin Professional Committee of China Musical Instrument Association and a member of the Guqin Art Examination Expert Steering Committee of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

"This is my second visit to Lanzhou. Now the art of guqin is flourishing in major cities all over the country, and the guqin style is also flourishing, and the development and progress of Lanzhou is also remarkable." Zhang Zisheng told reporters: "The folk customs of Lanzhou city are rough and bold and sincere and simple, just like the Yellow River that passes through the city here, condensing a very strong traditional cultural atmosphere." I think the art of guqin will take root and flourish in this land, which is bound to be a natural thing."

The seven-stringed harp Institute settled in Lanzhou Old Street

It is understood that Zhang Zisheng's trip also brought a sincere "great gift" for the development of Lanzhou's art, that is, let the seven-stringed Qin Institute officially settled in Lanzhou Old Street, and entrusted it to his best disciple Wang Fangyan in Lanzhou. Qixian Qin Institute was founded in 1999, the general institute is located in Tianjin, is a set of guqin teaching, guqin operation, guqin master, guqin sales, concert performance, musical creation as one of the comprehensive Guqin cultural inheritance base, there are more than 50 branches in the country.

"How to make this ancient instrument radiate new artistic vitality has become a new topic in front of contemporary piano people." For the important task of promoting the development of Lanzhou Guqin art in the future, Wang Fangyan, the head of Lanzhou Qixian Qin Academy, is also quite moved: "Today, Guqin art has also caught up with an unprecedented new era, and the whole society has formed a strong consensus on the inheritance of excellent traditional Chinese culture, which also puts forward higher requirements for our guqin inheritors." Next, we hope that through our efforts, more people can know, understand and love guqin, further stimulate the vitality of the development of guqin art, better release the humanistic quality and musical talent, and promote the high-quality development of Guqin art. I also hope that in the future, more people who know the Qin and love the Qin will gather together in the Qin Academy to play the piano and talk about happiness."