This girl's craftsmanship is so good that even the famous piano artist Lang Lang is full of praise for him. Because of a video of playing the guzheng on the streets of France, she has gained 9 million followers in half a year, and has been listed by "People's Daily" and "People's Daily" one after another. The Global Times reported that even CCTV did special programs for her.
In this issue, Wu Yue will introduce you to the story of Peng Jingxuan, an international student who promotes Chinese culture in France. Peng Jingxuan was born in 1995. She has a very interesting online name called "Pengpeng Pengpeng". An authentic Hunan girl from Hunan, she started learning the guzheng at the age of seven and passed the tenth grade of the guzheng in the second year of junior high school.
In September 2017, she graduated from the Chinese Instrumental Music Department of the Wuhan Conservatory of Music. Later, in order to further study music, Peng Jingxuan came to France alone to study at the Conservatory of Music at the University of Bordeaux III. By chance, she saw a band playing in France. The street performance is very simple, but the music is very infectious. Even the aunt on the side danced to the music, and Peng Jingxuan was also very happy because of the music on the streets of France. After listening to the music, Peng Jingxuan Suddenly moved, she asked herself why she couldn't play Chinese music or her own guzheng on the street, so Peng Jingxuan opened the prelude to playing the guzheng on the streets of France.
After returning to China, Peng Jingxuan took out her guzheng and made up her mind to bring it to France. She also wanted to bring traditional Chinese musical instruments abroad so that foreigners could experience Chinese traditional musical instruments, because the size of the guzheng is relatively small. So, Peng Jingxuan took off all the strings and strings of the guzheng, and wrapped the guzheng board with four thick layers. After such a tossing, the guzheng was finally brought to France intact.
In July 2018, in the square of the Bordeaux Theater in France, Peng Jingxuan, dressed in red, opened her first performance of bombing the streets with guzheng on the streets of France. A group of veterans surrounded this Chinese beauty in Hanfu and admired her Guzheng playing, this picture made Chinese netizens sigh: These foreigners are so pitiful, even WC can't say it.
If Li Ziqi is promoting Chinese food culture to foreign countries, then she is promoting Chinese music culture to foreign countries. Few people in France know the guzheng as a musical instrument, they think it is a Japanese musical instrument, and even when Peng Jingxuan wears Hanfu, they also think it is It is the kimono. She was a little lost when she first arrived in France, because of the unpopularity of the guzheng, and the more profound Chinese culture, which was not understood by the world and lost, so this Chinese girl moved the guzheng to the streets of France, dressed in Hanfu, one person per person The piano forgets to play.
Music has no borders. Although it is a traditional Chinese piece of music, everyone can understand the emotion in the tune. It was the first time she performed on the streets of France. She was immersed in her own world, bowed her head and plucked the strings, and waited until the end of the performance. Only when she saw people gathered on the opposite side of the road, applauding her across vehicles and pedestrians, she realized that it was not because the guzheng was unattractive, but they did not know the instrument. The French is marked withand it also carries a pamphlet to promote Chinese culture, hoping to let more people know that this is a Chinese plucked stringed instrument, which has a history of more than 2,500 years, and is also known as the Oriental Musical instrument for piano.
When playing the right fingertip, you can put a pick instead of a fingernail to pluck the strings, but the finger pulp of the left hand needs to be firmly pressed on the nylon string. When she first learned the zither, the fingertips of her left hand were again Pain and numbness, because she has to practice playing the guzheng every day, the index finger, middle finger and ring finger of her left hand have thick calluses. No slack.
When Peng Jingxuan played on the streets of France, many Chinese people who were familiar with Peng Jingxuan's repertoire would sing along with the guzheng. Some Chinese even shed tears while singing. In such a performance atmosphere, Peng Jingxuan fell in love with the street. Playing, she saw that more and more people began to understand the traditional Chinese instrument Guzheng, and more and more people liked this instrument, and through her own efforts, Chinese traditional culture went abroad, which made Peng Jingxuan Very fulfilling.
Once Peng Jingxuan planned to go to the streets of Switzerland to play the guzheng, but the guzheng is difficult to carry. If you take a train or a plane, you need to check it in, but you are afraid that the guzheng will be damaged in the process of checking in. So Peng Jingxuan and her partner sat for a long time in order to play at the destination. It took 12 to 3 hours to reach the destination by car. Although it was very hard to play the guzheng in this way, Peng Jingxuan felt sweet in her heart. She saw that many foreigners could understand and like this kind of music through her own performance. This musical instrument, she feels that all her efforts are worth it. The beautiful melody is matched with a stunning woman in a red dress fluttering. It has a unique charm in the streets of foreign countries. In order to perform better, Peng Jingxuan will make people feel more familiar with Chinese traditional culture. With a deeper understanding, every time she plays, she will specially wear traditional Chinese Hanfu.
The video of Peng Jingxuan playing the Chinese guzheng on the streets of a foreign country has received a lot of likes and attention from netizens after it was posted on the short video platform. In half a year, the number of fans exceeded 9 million, and the videos of playing the guzheng on the streets of France have followed one after another. After it became popular, more and more netizens learned that on the streets of France, there are still Chinese girls playing the guzheng, promoting traditional Chinese culture.
In 2019, Peng Jingxuan was invited to appear on Zhejiang Satellite TV. She also played a piece of "Sword Like a Dream" on the same stage with the famous pianist Lang Lang. In 2020, she appeared on the CCTV Network Spring Festival Gala and played the theme song of Journey to the West. "Cloud Palace Xunyin" was directly popular from France to China with a guzheng. Netizens watched her video and left comments and praised, saying that they especially like people like her who show Chinese culture abroad.