Most of the zheng practitioners will come into contact with the grading tunes in the process of learning. Behind these tunes, they are inextricably linked with local music culture, or are closely related to a certain guzheng world celebrity... Understand Relevant knowledge other than zheng music performance techniques is also necessary. Today's track is "Guan Shanyue".

Is the original "Guan Shanyue" a guzheng song? of course not! In fact, "Guan Shanyue" was originally a song of the Han Yuefu, which belonged to the "Drum Horn Cross-Blowing Song". It was often played and sung on horseback by soldiers guarding the border at that time. It was later adapted into a guqin piece. The existing "Guan Shanyue" music score, the earliest is the "Weishi Music Score" published in Japan in 1768, it is said that it was passed down by Wei Hou (Zhiyan) who took refuge in Japan at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The lyrics are the song "The moon rises out of the Tianshan Mountains and the vast sea of clouds" by Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty. Published in 1931, "Mei'an Qin Score" was compiled by Xu Lisun based on Wang Yanqing's "Longyin Pavilion Qin Score" and Mei'an's biography. It includes the song "Guan Shanyue", the tone is the same as that of "Wei's Music Score". ", which is different in tone and rhythm, but has no lyrics. In the early 1950s, Xia Yifeng, Yang Yinliu, etc. reassembled Li Bai's "Guan Shanyue" and the piano score into the singing, which became a widely popular string song in modern times. This piece is also a representative of short and concise, and it is an introductory piece.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a Shandong folk song "Scolding the Lover" which also borrowed this tune. Therefore, there is another saying that this piece is an adaptation of the Shandong folk song "Curse the Lover", and composed by Wang Yanqing Jia Lun Finger.

In 1990, the pianist Xie Xiaoping published "Overseas Discovery of the Lone Book of "Longyin Pavilion", detailing the process of discovering the "Longyin Pavilion" in the library of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands, and found the "Longyin Pavilion" in the score. "Mountain Moon" is basically the same as "Guan Shanyue" passed on by Wang Yanqing in "Mei An Qin Score". That is to say, more than a hundred years earlier than "Scolding Lovers", the qin song "Guan Shanyue" with the same name and tune already existed. "Guan Shanyue" is originally a tune from "Longyin Pavilion Piano Score".

The guzheng test piece "Guan Shanyue" currently played by the China Conservatory of Music is transplanted from guqin pieces.