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Chapter 143 A foot of crimson beats Qu Chen

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    [1] "Linjiang Immortal. I had an appointment last night" Nalan Xingde. Ci

    In the evening of the next day, Du Shiniang brought her maid Ruyi to "Fengqiwu" early.

    The slightest autumn wind blew her long hair, she took the bamboo bamboo from Ruyi's arms, blew it leisurely, and waited quietly for Ji Xu's arrival.

    But the first class and the second class did not see Ji Xu coming to the appointment. Du Shiniang waited until the third watch and returned to the passenger ship disappointed.

    It was getting dark at night, and it was difficult for her to fall asleep, so she wrote a letter full of grievances and resentment. The letter reads as follows:

    "I had an appointment last night,

    Yan Chengyu missed the third watch.

    A crescent moon and a few sparse stars,

    In the middle of the night, I still haven't slept, and the people are quiet and the mouse is peeping at the lamp.

    It turned out that Qu Tang was obstructed by the wind and wrongly taught people to hate and be ruthless.

    There is silence outside the small corridor,

    A few times where the heart is broken, the wind blows the flower bell.  "

    After daybreak, it began to rain.

    Shi Niang asked Ruyi to send the letter she wrote last night to Ji Xu.

    Seeing Ruyi enter the door, Ji Xu asked in surprise, "Aren't youthenthe girl from some kind of shop"

    Ruyi smiled and said: "What kind of store girl, I am Miss Du's maid, and she has a letter for you."

    It was only then that Ji Xu came back to his senses, "Oh~ so you are in the same group, and you are a 'group' to tease me!"

    Ruyi was also embarrassed, and said shyly: "I am teasing you, yes; I like you, it is true!"

    Ji Xu opened the letter and read it. When he saw the sentence "It turned out to be Qutang Fengjianzhi", he couldn't help laughing, and said, "This Miss Du, why did you curse me to fall into Qutang Gorge"

    Ruyi asked: "If Mr. Ji didn't fall into the water, why didn't you come to the appointment last night?"

    Ji Xu didn't answer Ruyi's question, but found a pen and paper and said, "Did your lady ask me to write back a letter to her again?"

    Ruyi said: "Now she doesn't want to see your letter, she wants to see you."

    While the two were talking, someone from the boatman came to inform him that there was a heavy rainstorm today, and the boat would stop sailing for a day.

    Ji Xu used this to change the subject and said, "Fortunately, we don't sail today, otherwise, as your lady said, I would fall into the Yangtze River again!"

    Ruyi proudly said: "Is my young lady unusual?"

    "Unusual!"

    "Is this considered saving your life?"

    "You can put it this way!" Ji Xu said so, but he thought in his heart that saving his life would not be enough, but it did save him the one hundred and fifty taels of silver that Yu Rong desperately saved for him.

    "Do you have to treat me to a banquet and thank my lady?"

    "Thisthis" Ji Xu hesitated and refused to agree.

    "What are you'this', a big man, do you need to be so stingy? You know, my lady is in our Yangzhou, even if your family is rich, you can't just ask for it!"

    This Ji Xu believes that not everyone in the south of the Yangtze River can invite them out for dinner But Ji Xu is no longer the wealthy second generation.  The little money in his hand is the fee for Yu Rong to go to Beijing for the exam, how dare he spend it recklessly?  He looked for reasons and said: "How can we hold a banquet on the ship? Let Ms. Du write it down first, and Ji will definitely make it up for her in the future."

    "Mr. Ji is also a frequent traveler. How can you not know that whenever there is a storm - the boat needs to dock, and the people need to leave the boat. We just took advantage of the light rain and went ashore to find a restaurant" Seeing  Ji Xu fell silent, thinking it was an acquiescence, and said, "You wait here for a while, I'll go back and tell my lady." After speaking, Ruyi hurried out of the room.

    [2] "Yellow Crane Tower" Yan Boli. Notes

    Or meandering away from work, or boarding a car to see you off,

    Tours must be so, banquets must be so.

    The vastness of the extremely long river, you can see the numerous mountains.

    The royal family is full of love, thinking about Zhongxuan's ability;

    The fairy trail can be bowed to, the fragrant dust of Jia Shuwei.

    As soon as Ruyi turned the corner, she arrived at the luxurious single room where Du Shiniang lived.

    It happened that Xie Yuelang, Xu Susu and Jia Zhengli were also in her room, discussing where to go ashore for a temporary stay.

    Hearing what Ruyi said, Du Shiniang was very unhappy.  She suggested that the banquet be held on the Yellow Crane Tower: "Didn't the ancients say it! 'You must be there, and the banquet must be here'. Mr. Ji is a great talent, wouldn't it be beautiful to hold a banquet there? Watching the scenery in the rain, composing poems  Send love" Du Shiniang thought, "It would be great if there were only the two of us!"

    "It is composed of front Yueshan, string nails, tuning box, piano feet, back Yueshan, side panels, sound outlet, bottom plate, and string holes.

    The shape of the zither is a rectangular wooden sound box, and the "zheng column" (i.e. the wild goose column) of the string frame can be moved freely. One string and one tone are arranged according to the pentatonic scale.  At that time, there were thirteen strings, which were later increased to sixteen, eighteen, twenty-one strings, etc. Currently, the most commonly used specification is twenty-one strings.

    (2) Guqin, also known as Yaoqin, Sitong, Yuqin, and Lyre, was called Qin in ancient times. In modern times, to distinguish Qin from Western musical instruments, the word "Gu" was added and it was called Guqin.  Guqin is the oldest traditional Chinese plucked string instrument, a treasure in Chinese culture, and a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage of mankind.  Legend has it that the Yellow Emperor created the original guqin in the primitive age, and it was widely circulated in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was played with instruments such as se and drum during sacrifices.  The objects unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng in Hubei are more than 2,400 years old. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, there have been excellent Guqin handed down from generation to generation.  There are more than 100 kinds of qin scores from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, and 3,000 pieces of qin music. There are also a large number of documents on qin players, qin theory, qin making, and qin art. The richness of the remains is the most abundant of Chinese musical instruments.  During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Guqin was also introduced to East Asian countries, and was absorbed and inherited by the traditional culture of these countries.  In modern times, with the footprints of Chinese people all over the world, it has become a symbol of oriental culture in the minds of Westerners.

    In the Song Dynasty, Chen Yang mentioned in "The Book of Music" that "the player of the qin is the leader of music", which expresses the status of the qin in ancient Chinese music.  From its shape to its repertoire, from its special notation method to its rich performance skills, the Chinese guqin embodies the highest level of Chinese music art.  Guqin music has profound and subtle, natural and elegant style characteristics and touching artistic charm. It is best at using "virtual" and "far" to create an ethereal aesthetic feeling, and pursues implicit and inner charm and artistic conception.  The connotation, but also the superficially simple, free and undisciplined external form.  Only by in-depth study of Guqin music can we have a more real understanding of the profoundness of Chinese music.

    Although the legends of "Fuxi made Qin", "Shen Nong made Qin", and "Shun made five-stringed Qin" are not credible, its history is indeed quite long.  Qin, first seen in the classics is my country's first collection of poetry - "The Book of Songs".  In "The Book of Songs. Zhou Nan. Guanju", "My Fair Lady, Qin and Se Youzhi", in "The Book of Songs. Xiaoya. Luming", "I have guests, play the zither and the qin", all reflect the close connection between the qin and people's lives  .  It can be seen that in the Zhou Dynasty more than 3,000 years ago, Qin was already popular.  Later, due to Confucius' advocacy, the atmosphere of playing the piano became very popular among literati, and gradually formed the tradition that ancient literati must have the cultivation of "qin, chess, calligraphy, and painting".  Confucius taught that at the beginning of advocating qin music, a gentleman can't get rid of his body, and a gentleman and a qin are better than virtue, and only a gentleman can enjoy it.  Playing the piano and playing music is the highest level of a gentleman's cultivation. The combination of people and music together shows a peaceful and honest demeanor.  In the time of Confucius, the music of the qin was not only the joy of self-cultivation for the gentlemen of later generations, but also the sacred music that contained the heaven and the earth and educated the common people.  In the music of the qin, Confucius heard the voice of King Wen's holiness, and Shi Kuang heard the voice of Shang Zhou's subjugation.  The ancients believed that the weather of heaven and earth was contained in it, and people worshiped it and endowed it with moral beliefs.  As "orthodox sound", qin music embodies the orthodox thought and culture of China for thousands of years.

    Guqin accompanies people's lives and has left us with many moving stories: Boya playing the qin and meeting a bosom friend; Sima Xiangru and Zhuo Wenjun using the qin to express their love;  Zhuge Liang's ingenious design of an empty city, the calm and leisurely sound of the qin, and the retreat of Sima Yi's 100,000 soldiers; and the story of Tao Yuanming playing the qin without strings, etc., have been eulogized through the ages.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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