"Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" was originally a qin song. It is said to be composed by Cai Wenji. It is a vocal suite composed of 18 songs, accompanied by qin. Now the qin music is the most widely circulated.

Cai Yan, courtesy name Wenji, was a native of Chen Liu. Cai Yong, the father of Cai Yan, was a famous writer, calligrapher and musician in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In terms of literature, she left behind masterpieces such as "Dongdu Fu", "Eighteen Shots of Hu Jia" and "Poems of Sadness and Indignation". Cai Yong's book "Qin Cao" has made great contributions to the popularization of famous songs such as "High Mountains and Flowing Water" and "Guangling San" in later generations. "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty: Biography of Lie Nu" said that Cai Yan "was erudite and eloquent, and was also good at rhythm". Under the influence of his father, Cai Yan was fond of music since he was a child, and has a deep attainments. "The Book of the Later Han", Li Xian's annotation quoted Liu Zhao's "Young Tongzhuan" as saying, "Yong night drum and qin, the strings are absolutely perfect. Yan said: the second string. Said: Fourth string. Not bad."

Eighteen Beats by Hu Jia: Guqin music, said to be composed by Cai Wenji, is a vocal suite composed of 18 songs, accompanied by the qin. "Pai" is the "head" in the Turkic language, and the name of "Hu Jia" is because the sound of the piano melts into the mournful sound of Hu Jia.

Tang Dynasty qin master Huang Tinglan is famous for playing this piece. In Li Qi's poem "Listening to Dong Da Playing the Hu Jia": "Cai Nvxi made the sound of the Hu Jia, and there are eight beats per play. The Hu people shed tears and touched the grass. Ji empathized with the voice.

The qin piece of the same name created according to "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" is an outstanding classical piece in the history of Chinese music. It tells the tragic experience of Cai Yan's life with a very touching tune, reflects the serious disasters brought by the war to the people, and expresses the protagonist's deep yearning for the motherland and the old man, and the painful feelings of separation.

There are "Big Hujia", "Little Hujia", "Hujia Eighteen Beats" and other versions. Although the tunes are different, they all reflect Cai Wenji's extremely contradictory and painful feelings of missing her hometown and unable to bear the separation of flesh and blood. The music is euphemistic and sad, tearing the liver and intestines. This piece was very popular in the Tang and Song dynasties. According to the statistics of Mr. Zha Xifu, a guqin master, there are 39 different versions of the qin piece. Among them, only the biography of Sun Pixian's "Qin Shi" in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1611) is accompanied by lyrics. .

"The Eighteen Beats of Hujia" is a new style of music created by Cai Yan using the tones of the eighteen beats of Hujia into the guqin. The intersection of North and South music culture.

"Beat" is a section of music, and eighteen beats are eighteen sections. The following article will introduce the music effect of "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jin".

The first beat is the introduction of the whole piece, which summarizes the author's tragic experience of living in troubled times and being in a foreign land. The two three-bar stanzas are the core tones of the whole piece, from which the basic tunes of the whole piece are derived. The emotional ups and downs of the first beat were great, which also laid the foundation for the continued development of each piece of music. A decorative inflection occurs in the second beat, making the emotional expression quite strong. Until the tenth beat, the sadness of leaving home is deepened step by step, forming the first part of the music.

The eleventh and twelfth beats are the turning points of the whole piece, especially the twelfth beat is the only passage with a cheerful and clear tone, expressing the joy of the nation and the joy of returning home. The music starts from a high pitch and has a broad rhythm, forming a stretched phrase. This melody has a higher range and expresses an unusually excited emotion.

The thirteenth to seventeenth beats are the second part of the piece, still mainly expressing sadness, mainly expressing the yearning for the child. The eighteenth beat is the end of the whole song, ending the whole song in passion.

"Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" is just a piece of qin music. Although it expresses sorrow and resentment, it is also a "great resentment". After the fall of the Song Dynasty, perhaps it was precisely because of such widely circulated tunes as "unbelievably sad" and full of "great resentment" that the "heart stone iron" persevered to the end, thus making the blood of race and culture inexhaustible. , continue continuously. More than 80 years later, when the anti-Yuan army marched across the Jiangnan and Jiangbei, the race and culture were finally reborn.