Winter Olympics Moment - Telling Chinese Stories with Pipa

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The Olympic Games is a grand event for sports and culture. The charm of the Olympic Games lies not only in showing the passion of sports competition, but also in conveying the power of culture and showing the beauty of humanity.


The preparation and holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics is actually a process of cultural integration, cultural dissemination and cultural inheritance. The Olympic Games is an opportunity for cultural exchanges of various countries. It has built a huge platform for dialogue, exchange and communication among the civilizations, cultures, sports and arts of various nations in the world. The exchange and mutual learning of the world's multiculturalism in China and the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

Winter Olympics Moment - Telling Chinese Stories with Pipa

The Beijing Winter Olympics is a major landmark event at an important historical node in my country. It is an important opportunity to display the national image, promote national development, and invigorate the national spirit. With the holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the whole country has also set off a wave of national participation in the Winter Olympics and the promotion of the Olympic spirit. The vast number of literary and art workers also kept up with the pace, celebrating the era of Acura, and created a large number of excellent literary and artistic works to celebrate the Winter Olympics.

As a literary and artistic worker, Chinese music master Fang Jinlong also actively participated in the Winter Olympics. Last year, he played the voice of China to the world with the song "High Mountains and Flowing Water" in the special program "One Year Countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics".

Recently, the Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing. At the opening ceremony of the "Meet in Beijing" Olympic Cultural Festival and the 22nd "Meet in Beijing" International Art Festival-Beijing Cultural Week, Fang Jinlong once again played "High Mountains and Flowing Water", using the pipa to talk about China well. The story, relying on music and art, expresses the Chinese people's understanding of the Winter Olympics and winter sports, conveys traditional Chinese culture, shapes China's image, and expresses the understanding of the times in the field of art.

Winter Olympics Moment - Telling Chinese Stories with Pipa

In Fang Jinlong's view: Pipa is not only a national musical instrument of China, but also a product of the "Belt and Road" initiative. Pipa entered China from the two river basins, and is called "Pipa" in China, "lute" in Europe, and "lute" in Spain. Guitar", all have a "blood" relationship. During the performance, Fang Jinlong showed the Chinese guqin, Beijing's single-stringed lute, as well as sounds from the world, such as the Mesopotamia, India, Japan, Spain, etc. in the program "Five-string Pipa World Tour". It embodies the traditional Chinese culture of "harmony" - harmony and difference, the style of a gentleman.

Fang Jinlong said: "I think we all live in a global village. Only by living in harmony can we look forward to the future together. In last year's special program of 'One Year Countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics', I played a piece of "High Mountains and Flowing Water" with a crystal pipa. After the anniversary, our Beijing is now attracting the attention of the world. As a Chinese, I am very proud. At the 22nd 'Meet in Beijing' International Art Festival, I also played "High Mountains and Flowing Water". , more traditional culture is passed on to the world. Because our national music comes from farming culture, it is very gentle, and it is open to the world.”

"In addition, most of our songs are more 'green and environmentally friendly'. Works such as "Spring River Flower Moon Night", "Pinghu Autumn Moon", "Mountain and Flowing Water" and other works all reflect the beauty of nature. The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics were successfully held, and China completed the pairing of A solemn commitment to the world. I also want to take this opportunity to pass on the natural beauty of China to the world, to use China's national musical instrument, the pipa, to tell Chinese stories well, and to tell cultural and national self-confidence." Fang Jinlong joked.

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Involving the artist

Fang Jinlong (1963-), a native of Anqing, Anhui Province, a famous Chinese pipa player, a representative of modern five-string pipa, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings of Chinese Music", is now the "Jinlong Music Studio" of the Guangdong Provincial Art Institute Artistic Director.
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Involving musical instruments

Pipa (pinyin: pí pa), the first plucked instrument, is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, a plucked stringed musical instrument. Made of wood or bamboo, the speaker is half-pear-shaped and has four strings on the top. It was originally made of silk thread, but now it is mostly made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon.

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