Xu Shangying, a qin master in the Ming Dynasty, once said, "When playing the qin, one is adjusting the breath and the other is practicing the fingers." Guqin can help us adjust our breathing.

A person who is short of breath and impatient is unlikely to perfectly display the harmonious and elegant voiceless sounds in the guqin. On the other hand, if we perform the guqin music well through practice, then the time to adjust the breath will be almost the same. .

Actually, it's not just playing the piano. A person who can understand the music of the piano will inevitably be able to integrate himself into the harmonious and soothing rhythm of life.

The purpose of guqin practice is to first learn to calm the mind through guqin. That is to say, when you are practicing the guqin, you should learn to let yourself gradually calm down through the guqin.

Therefore, the two key words that need to be paid attention to when starting to practice the guqin are: breathing.

The function of a tree is to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, that is, plants are also breathing, not to mention animals, the way of life is between one breath and one breath. Qi is the ancient Chinese understanding of the origin of the world. The most common and simple qi in the practice of guqin is between the breath and the breath. Whether it is the practice of scattered sound or the performance of guqin music, it must be combined with the breath. There are several easy ways to start learning guqin:

The first is the Taoist cultivation method:

Play each note of Gongshangjiao Zhengyu for a long time, and then the natural sound disappears, and you can play each note according to the Guqin minus character notation.

The longer this type of training lasts, the better. Sometimes we are so busy with work that we may not even have time to feel our own breathing for a year, and at this time, in addition to the sound of the guqin, it is the sound of our own breathing. A senior Chinese medicine practitioner said: "Life is like a burning candle. The more it burns, the faster it goes out." Therefore, a person who is good at maintaining health must understand the principle of water flowing. Therefore, modern people should maintain health slowly, breathe slowly, heartbeat should be slow, and taste life quietly in a calm and gentle way. However, real life is often fast-paced and high-pressure, which makes people exhausted and has no time to take care of their physical conditions. So, I think we should choose different ways to slow down the pace of our lives.

Through this kind of practice, we pay attention to the mind, the state, that is, the spirit and the object, the spirit and the image, and the unity of the mind and the object, the subject and the object is achieved in the blending of the mind, beyond the material, and the imagination is free in the breath. spiritual realm.

The second is the way of cultivating the guqin in the Buddhist cessation method, which is called the "Anpan Method" in Buddhism. For example, if the breathing is long and the breathing is short, the mind controls the breathing but does not breathe; both methods. That is to say, the duration of each sound is different when hooking and picking Gongshangjiao and Zhengyu.

In fact, there is a similar breathing method in the Taoist family. Inhaling long and exhaling short, the ancients practiced Taoism called the "Rising Yang Method"; breathing long and breathing short, the ancients cultivating the Tao called "Downing Yin Method", both of which are critical. Zhuangzi said: "The real person's breath is on the heel; the people's breath is on the throat." The Buddhist way of practising the guqin is called "Anpan Dharma" in Buddhism, and Taoism is called Tuna. Of course, these two ways of practicing It must be established in the correct sitting posture.

In addition to these two ways of practicing the guqin, the method of breathing includes one breath and several breaths, several breaths and one breath, forward breathing, reverse breathing, wind breathing, sound breathing, and intentional breathing; breathing is also called "breathing", and there are closed breaths. , fetal breath, turtle breath and so on.

In terms of form, it also pays attention to throat breathing, shoulder breathing, lung breathing, abdominal breathing, acupoint breathing, pore breathing, yin and yang breathing, and the thickness of the breath is extraordinary. Breathing is the basic vital characteristic of everyone, but few people pay attention to their own breathing. According to the standard of modern medicine, the respiratory rate of most people is 16-20 times per minute, but if we look back at the breathing of the ancients, the number of breaths per minute is only ten times per minute. This comparison is very meaningful, because modern research shows that lifespan is inversely proportional to breathing rate, and the slower the breathing, the longer the lifespan, a conclusion that surprised many people.