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Chapter 128 The Upstream Firefly in Yuanyang Swamp

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    After Wan Sheng and Mei Pan disappeared, the Yu Wan family searched for three days and three nights following the sound of the flute, and finally came to the Jianzhou area of ??Chengdu Road when Yu Ji was an official for the first time.

    There is an ancient town in Jianzhou named Luodai Town built in the Shu Han period.  It was named "Luodai" because Liu Chan's jade belt fell into the octagonal well next to the town. Later, because "Luo" and "Luo" sound the same, the town was named "Luodai".

    [1] "Shepherd Boy" by Lu Zhao. Poem

    Who has the heart of a shepherd boy,

    The cow sleeps horizontally in autumn and listens deeply;

    Playing a song back and forth from time to time,

    He worries that the north and the south do not know the sound.

    At noon on the ninth day of the lunar new year, Director Yu led a group of people to Luodai Town.

    They were hungry and thirsty, and there were no restaurants, inns or anything along the way, not even a passer-by who could inquire about the road.

    Another walk.

    Suddenly, under a big tree by the roadside, a big yellow ox was tied, and there seemed to be a person lying on the ox's back, so they rushed over.

    When I got closer, I saw a shepherd boy—a child lying on the back of a cow, taking a nap!

    Director Yu didn't dare to disturb others, but just sighed and said: "Who can compare to the state of mind of a shepherd boy!"

    They passed the shepherd boy and moved on.

    After walking for more than a mile, I suddenly heard a melodious flute sound coming from behind. It was the sound of the long flute that Wansheng often played. This long flute is not an ordinary flute.  Branch Mongolian "Chaoer", also known as "hujia" [1].

    Director Yu immediately turned his horse's head and went back.

    When the men and horses came under the big tree, the shepherd boy he had just seen had woken up, and he was leisurely blowing the bamboo flute in his hand on the back of the bull.

    Director Yu asked for the Xiao in the shepherd boy's hand, and handed it to Guo Jing for inspection.  Guo Jing confirmed that it was his own owner's Hujia.

    Director Yu asked: "Shepherd boy, where did you get this bamboo shovel?"

    The shepherd boy said: "I was grazing cattle by the lotus lake, and I saw this flute floating on the lake, so I took it."

    Director Yu hurriedly asked: "Where is the lotus lake?"

    The shepherd boy said: "It's just ahead, we have to climb over this hill"

    Director Yu said again: "Shepherd boy, can you take us there?"

    The shepherd boy said displeasedly: "You took my bamboo flute because of the large number of peopleyou go by yourself!"

    Director Yu led the troops to turn around in a hurry and ran towards the lotus lake.  In less than half an hour, we arrived at the bank of the lotus lake.  Director Yu ordered everyone to go to the lake to find the body of the young master.

    However, they searched for a long time, but they couldn't find any relics of Wansheng and his wife, only the fireflies all over the lake, flying back and forth on the lotus leaves

    [2] "Mandarin Duck Lake" by Zhang Yaotong. Poem

    The waters of the east and west lakes are compared with mandarin ducks;

    In the lake, there are mandarin ducks and birds with long brocade wings.

    In order to commemorate this loyal couple who died for their true love, the locals renamed the lotus lake as "Mandarin Duck Lake".

    Today, Luodai Ancient Town, located in the eastern suburbs of Longquanyi District, Chengdu, has been built into a 4a scenic spot, and the Hakka Tulou has been restored, and Yuanyang Lake has also reproduced its original appearance.

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    Notes

    [1] The difference between Hu Jia and Xiao

    Hujia is an edge air-sounding musical instrument of the Mongolian nationality.  It is also called Chaoer and Maodun Chaoer among the people.  Xiao, also known as Dongxiao, single pipe, vertical blowing, is also a very ancient musical instrument.  It is generally made of bamboo and blows straight. There is a blow hole on the upper end. According to the sound hole, there are five in the front and one in the back.

    During the Qin and Han Dynasties, our ancestors invented the original Hujia, which is a wind instrument in which reed leaves are rolled into a double reed shape or a circular vertebral tube shape, and the head end is flattened into a reed.

    "Taiping Yulan" contains: "Jia, Hu people roll reed leaves and blow them for fun, so they are called Hujia." "Yuefu Poetry Collection" also says: "Rolling reeds is blowing Jia." Fu Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty "Fu  There is a sentence in "Preface": "Jia Ye is the sound".  The word "Jia" was the word "Jia" in the Han Dynasty.  "Shuowen" contains: "Jia, the unseen one of the reed", "Reed, the big reed." Guo Pu of the Jin Dynasty said: "Jia, reed, and reed refer to the same plant.

    The original Hujia was once used in war.  In the Western Han Dynasty, it was widely popular in the north of the Great Wall and the Western Regions.  With the development of society, various forms of Hu Jia appeared in history.  Firstly, the body of the reed is changed from the body of the reed to the body of the reed rod.  The reed is still in one piece, the difference is that there is no sound hole on the tube body.  Later, the identity of reed and pipe appeared.?The Hujia are still made of reed tubes, and the reeds can be replaced at any time when they are worn out, without the need to replace the tube body.

    In the Han Dynasty, there were two kinds of Hujia.  One is Hujia, which is made of reed (there is also a wooden tube body) and three holes are opened on the tube, which is popular in the vast Mongolian ethnic area.  The other is the Hujia with a wooden tube body, three holes and reed springs introduced by Zhang Qian to the Western Regions. It is popular in the vast Han area of ??the Central Plains.

    In the Tang Dynasty, it was popular to use sheep bones or sheep horns as the tube, and the tube body had no holes, and the tube body was shorter than the Hu Jia.  This kind of Aijia is used in Lubo advocacy music, popular in Saibei and Hexi Corridor, and has been spread until the Song Dynasty.

    Regarding Aijia, many literati in the Tang Dynasty left immortal poems.  Wang Wei once served as a festival envoy in Liangzhou. He wrote in "Farewell to Shuanghuanghu Song": "Sorrow and tears hang down the dance clothes, and the guests want to be separated and come back to each other." Du Mu wrote in "Three Poems of Wenjia on the Side":  "Where is the evening sky blowing, and the tall birds in the cold wall have no wolf smoke."

    In the Qing Dynasty, the court advocated "Sifang Music". It once drew Mongolian Wulianghai Department to the Horqin Grassland from the Altay region of Xinjiang to form the Mongolian Karaqin Palace Orchestra. This is the "Mongolian Jabuki Department" of the Qing Dynasty court.  The Hu Jia used in the "Illustration of Ritual Vessels of the Imperial Dynasty" contains its shape as: "The wooden tube has three holes, with angles at both ends, the end is upturned, and the mouth is open (opening the mouth). "There is also: Hu Jia wooden tube, three holes  , a record of two feet and four inches long.  This kind of Hujia has three equidistant circular sound holes in the lower part of the pipe body, and imitates the shape of the Aijia with angles at both ends, shaped like a thin and long trumpet.  The lower end of the mouth is connected with an upwardly curved horn mouth to amplify the volume.  It has been used in Wangfu bands all over Inner Mongolia.  In the end, the horns at both ends were removed, and it became today's Hujia.

    The wooden Hujia with three holes is popular among the Mongolian people and is deeply loved by ordinary herdsmen.  In 1985, relevant scholars discovered this kind of Hujia in the Mongolian Autonomous Township of Handa Gaitu, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, and named it "Altay Hujia".  The body of the pipe is made of wood, the length of the pipe is 58.5 cm, and the diameter of the pipe is 1.8 cm. There are three circular sound-pressing holes in the lower part, and there is no reed at the upper end of the nozzle.  When playing, the pipe body is placed vertically, the pipe is held in both hands, and the index finger and middle finger of both hands respectively press and release the three sound holes.  The upper end of the nozzle is close to the lower lip, and the air is blown to pronounce.  Twelve-degree pentatonic scale can be issued.  The laryngeal sound is often used to play, and the laryngeal sound and the pipe sound are often combined to make a sound at the same time, or the laryngeal sound is used to elicit the pipe sound.  The pronunciation is soft and vigorous, and the timbre is round and deep.  Unique performance skills, good at playing Mongolian long-tune music.  It can be used for solo, instrumental ensemble or band accompaniment. It is a wind instrument full of strong national colors.

    Xiao originated from the bone whistle in ancient times. It was also called flute in history. After the Tang Dynasty, it specifically refers to the flute played vertically.  "Blowing the flute horizontally and blowing the flute vertically" is the most basic difference between flutes and flutes.

    The xiao has a long history, with a mellow and soft tone, quiet and elegant, suitable for solo and ensemble.

    The flute is derived from the bone whistle in ancient times, and was made of bamboo in the Neolithic Age.  From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, Xiao refers to the pan flute with braided tubes.  As early as in the "Shangshu. Yiji", it is recorded that "ninety percent of the Xiao Shao, the Phoenix comes to the instrument." It is called because the accompaniment instrument of Shao Yue is mainly Xiao (pan Xiao at that time).  Xiao was called "篴", "Zhu篴" or "Qiangdi" in the Han Dynasty.

    The Qiang flute was originally a musical instrument of the Qiang people who lived in Sichuan and Gansu in ancient times. At first, it only had 4 holes (3 sound holes plus 1 hole for the pipe mouth).  After adding a treble hole, it becomes a 5-hole flute.  Yuping Xiaodi The flute reformed by Western Jin musician Liehe and Zhongshu Supervisor Xun Xu has 6 holes (5 in front and 1 in back), and its shape is very similar to today's Xiao.  Huan Yi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was good at music. He had Cai Yong's Keting flute (Xiao), and he was the number one flute player in the south of the Yangtze River, with a high status and reputation.  He once played three pieces of music for Wang Huizhi, whom he had never met before, which was passed down as a good story in history.  During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Xiao had been used for solo, ensemble, and band accompaniment to Xianghe songs.  In the Qing Dynasty, the shape of Xiao was exactly the same as it is now.  Qing "Lv Lu Zhengyi Houbian" records: "In the Ming Dynasty, it was called a straight flute, and there was no longer a vertical bamboo. Today, the flute is one foot and eight inches long and weak. It is blown from the upper mouth and has a hole at the back; the flute is played horizontally without a hole at the back.  "(Remember this site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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