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135. Flute

After initially completing the game studio affairs, Jin Xiao's life returned to normal.

Every day I go to and from school, I occasionally go back to my home at night, and sometimes in the dormitory, another month has passed without realizing it.

The weather has gradually become a little cold. Many people on the street have already changed into long-sleeved trousers, but for northern students like Jin Xiao, the temperature in Pengcheng November is actually very pleasant.

For example, Jin Xiao, he doesn't feel cold at all.

Recently, he has been to the flute club more and more times.

After all, he is a member of the club, and it is not the same thing that he has never been to go. For this reason, he also bought two flutes, one bamboo and one wood. The bamboo flute is purple bamboo and the wooden flute is sea yellow.

When he took out these two flutes in the flute club, the small club caused a little sensation. Without it, the main reason is that the price of these two flutes is really not cheap. Each one is more than 30,000 yuan, and the two flutes are almost 70,000 yuan. Although 70,000 yuan is really nothing in today's era, it is just a beginner who buys such expensive ones. Everyone has experienced the heroism of Jin Xiao.

As for which one is better, bamboo flute or wooden flute, it is really hard to say.

According to the thickness, thinness, length and performance of bamboo, bamboo flutes are mainly divided into two categories: "Bangdi" and "Qudi". The bangdi has a short body, a thin diameter, a high-pitched pronunciation and brightness, and is suitable for playing cheerful, bright and unrestrained melodies. The qudi has a long body, a thick diameter, a thick development, and is sweet and suitable for playing music in styles such as Jiangnan silk and bamboo.

When playing the wooden flute, the tone is accurate, the tone is beautiful, and the sound quality is unique. In addition, it also has the advantages of easy playing and making, and long service life. However, this cheap one is not good to blow, and if it is good to blow, the price is very expensive. This is why Jin Xiao directly spent tens of thousands to buy the flute.

Of course, wooden flutes are relatively rare, and the bamboo flutes that people are more accustomed to.

Bamboo flutes are also divided into schools in our country.

The most common one is divided by time, namely "traditional school" and "modern school".

The artistic expression form of bamboo flute is divided into "traditional school" and "modern school". Although these two expression techniques are different in style, they complement each other and have made important contributions to the inheritance of bamboo flute art. Despite this, bamboo flute still has many problems in its development due to the limitations of realistic factors. This article also puts forward some relevant suggestions on such issues.

Our country is a country with a history of uninterrupted civilization for 5,000 years. Today, when the traditional culture of China is constantly developing and evolving, music art can be regarded as a brilliant wave in the development of many cultures. In ancient times, our ancestors had a strong form of artistic expression. They constantly discovered the wonders of art in production and life, especially in southern China, where bamboo is abundant, and bamboo plays a huge role in people's lives. Bamboo can keep warm and make daily necessities.

When our ancestors discovered that bamboo could be made into musical instruments that make sounds through some shallow processing, bamboo really entered the historical stage of art in Chinese civilization, and through this artistic expression, it brought fun in life to more people, adding a touch of color in the boring life of people who rest at sunset and sunrise.

According to relevant historical records, the development of bamboo flute in my country has a history of more than 7,000 years, and can be regarded as a musical instrument with a long history. After centuries of continuous progress, bamboo flutes have undergone great changes in both form and content, and in the performance techniques of the performers. They have added many elements that keep pace with the times with the progress of the times. This has also gradually increased the influence of bamboo flutes in the field of art, giving more and more artistic feelings to more and more bamboo flute enthusiasts, and also giving more tastes to bamboo flute chasers who discover beauty and show beauty. In real life, regulating people's boredom has played a role in promoting the development of bamboo flutes. From the history of bamboo flute development, we can see that China has had its own unique requirements since ancient times and has its own unique requirements. Our ancestors have also put in the hard work of several generations on the road to art.

The bamboo flute is a traditional national musical instrument in my country and one of the oldest musical instruments in my country. It is 8,000 years old if it is calculated from the more than 20 bone flutes found at the Jiahu ancient cultural site; even if it is counted from the change of flute from bone to bamboo in the Western Han Dynasty, it has a history of more than 2,000 years. However, the formation of the bamboo flute art school has been in recent decades.

The two main schools of Chinese bamboo flute: the southern flute and the northern flute.

As early as the Song and Yuan dynasties in ancient my country (10th to 14th century AD), the form and production methods of bamboo flutes have become stable, and have begun to be widely used in various art forms such as quyi and opera. Kunqu opera, which originated in the south in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and Bangzi tunes, which originated in the north in the late Ming dynasties, were the main instruments of their accompaniment. People called bamboo flutes used in Kunqu opera "flute" or "Qudi", and the bamboo flute used to accompany Bangzi opera is called "Bangdi". In comparison, the body of "Qudi" is thicker and long, with a pure and round tone. The body of "Bangdi" is thin and short, with a high-pitched and bright tone.

The division of "Qu Di" and "Bang Di" became the practical basis for the emergence of the two major schools of bamboo flu in my country - the "Southern School" and the "Northern School".

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, bamboo flutes began to gradually get rid of the main role of accompaniment and ensemble, and gradually entered the field of main music. In the 20th century, the solo art performance form of bamboo flute solo reached an unprecedented stage of development. In 1953, the famous bamboo flute performer Mr. Feng Zicun successfully performed music such as "Happy Meeting" and "Yellow Oriole Blossoming Wings", which caused a great sensation across the country. Since then, bamboo flutes have been officially established as a modern solo instrument. This is the prerequisite for the emergence of the bamboo flute genre.

In the middle of the 20th century, with the prosperity and development of bamboo flute art, its artistic schools began to gradually form. The "Southern School" and "Northern School" were the two earliest bamboo flute art schools formed. Later, the "Central Plains School" that integrates the characteristics of the two major schools of north and south and the "Zhejiang School" with unique styles appeared. The four major schools represented by the "Northern School" Feng Zicun, Liu Guanle, Wang Tiechong, "Southern School" Lu Chunling, "Zhejiang School" Zhao Songting and "Central Plains School" Kong Jianhua pushed the development of bamboo flute solo art performance form to a peak.

Take "Jiangnanchun", one of the representative works of the Southern School flute, as an example. The flute part is played by Mr. Lu Chunling, a master of the Southern School flute. It is not difficult to find that the Southern School flute is bright and elegant. In sharp contrast, the Northern School flute is majestic and high-pitched.

"Xixianghui" is one of the representative works of the Northern School flute, played by Feng Zicun, the late Northern School flute master. Due to the different styles of artistic forms such as rap, opera, and ensemble that are the basis of the genre, the contrast between the artistic characteristics of the bamboo flute and the north and south schools is very strong. The two have different styles and unique charm.

The Northern School flute is popular in the vast northern regions.

The bamboo flute is good at playing Bangzi opera music, Errentai music and mountain songs, etc. The Northern School flute sounds are loud and loud, funny and enthusiastic, and are good at simulating drama singing and natural sounds. The Southern School flute, which is popular in the Jiangnan water town, is used to play southern opera music, Jiangnan silk and bamboo, Jiangnan minor tunes, etc.

In addition to the different popular regions, the Southern School flute and the Northern School flute are also very different in musical expressiveness.

The Southern School uses "Qu Di" as the carrier, and the overall range of Qu Di is low, which makes the music more stable and subtle, with mellow and round tone, elegant and beautiful; while the Northern School uses "Bang Di" as the carrier, with a higher overall range, and the music played is higher and bright. The Southern School plays freely and elegantly, with rich and round tone, soft and smooth, and the melody often has wave-like ups and downs, with more relaxed and stable rhythms. The music has a rhythmic and rhythmic rhythm, with a rough and bold, passionate and unrestrained performance, while the Northern School plays are vigorous, vigorous, with ups and downs, with lively and pounding, and the music is rough and generous, passionate and unrestrained, giving dramatic nature. Overall, the performance of the Southern School is softer, while the performance of the Northern School is rough and powerful.

In addition, due to the different styles of musical music between the north and the south, the performance techniques and techniques of the flutes of the north and the south are also very different. The style of southern folk music is relatively fresh and beautiful, and the flute music is derived from it. The fingering techniques commonly used by southern flutes include tremolo, overlapping, shaking, and thrusting.

The application of these techniques reflects the style characteristics of the Southern School flute. In the use of breath, the Southern School flute also emphasizes flexibility and elasticity, such as practicing Tai Chi. Mr. Lu Chunling, a master of Southern School flute, once compared it to "the energy is like an arrow hitting a steel plate, neither dry nor weak, and paying attention to the degree of proportion". Similarly, the style of northern folk music is more bold and straightforward, and the flute music produced from it also has the characteristics of enthusiasm and unrestrainedness. The techniques commonly used in Northern School flutes include vocal sound, slip sound and duplex sound.

These techniques fully reflect the style of the Northern School flute music. In terms of luck, the Northern School emphasizes heavy and heavy, and is as powerful as a bamboo shoot. I heard that when the Northern School flute master Mr. Feng Zicun accepted disciples, he asked students to blow the flute film and then talk about other things. Mr. Feng emphasized to his students the importance of explosive power of breath in this way.

It is not difficult to see that the southern and northern schools of bamboo flute art have huge differences in style. For a long time, the two schools formed and developed independently, and did not have much influence or exchanges with each other. However, the emergence of the flute arts of the southern and northern schools had a profound impact on later generations, and many emerging flute art schools that emerged in the later period were derived from these two major schools. These two schools laid the foundation for the two basic styles of Chinese bamboo flute art - gorgeous and elegant and simplicity. The characteristics of flute music created by later generations with traditional techniques are focused on one point or the integration of the two.

Whether it is the Southern School flute or the Northern School flute, they bring infinite joy and joy to people with their unique, beautiful tone and charm and colorful playing skills, and are very important parts of the Chinese nation's cultural and artistic treasure house.

The Chinese bamboo flute has presented many forms in the process of rapid development, and many of the expression techniques have inspired the development of today's bamboo flutes. However, in the rapid development, there are also some disadvantages formed by fast speed. The eternal truth of "hazard will not be achieved" still has reasonable connotations today. It is necessary to make some adjustments to the problems that are currently emerging. I hope that some micro-level adjustments can do my best to the development of my country's bamboo flutes.

First of all, at the level of people's ideological consciousness, we must strengthen the popularization of bamboo flute knowledge among bamboo flute fans, and strengthen the understanding of bamboo flutes by some young and promising young enthusiasts who are interested in bamboo flutes. This will enable the development of Chinese bamboo flutes to have successors and strengthen the inheritance and protection of Chinese traditional culture.

Secondly, strengthen the exchange between bamboo flutes and Western musical instruments, hold more national seminars to enhance the understanding between different musical instruments, so that more people who love music can produce new ideas in communication, allow more musical components to develop space, provide a steady stream of motivation for the advancement of Chinese bamboo flutes, vigorously promote bamboo flutes as an ordinary musical instrument, and let it enter more music classrooms in the education of bamboo flutes. In the education of bamboo flutes, start from children and cultivate children's interest in music, so that more children can deepen their understanding of our country's traditional culture in the process of learning bamboo flutes, and contribute their own strength to the inheritance and dissemination of Chinese culture in the future.

After the development process of ancient and modern times, bamboo flutes gradually formed two factions. The emergence of these two factions is mainly related to the geographical environment, ecological climate and humanistic conditions. Therefore, bamboo flutes will change in the process of development. First, they are divided into two factions, but then, many mixed schools have been formed in the process of continuous economic development and exchanges and collisions between different cultures. This is also an inevitable trend in the development of Hsinchu flute in the new era. They will have great practical and theoretical significance for the formation of bamboo flutes and the further development of bamboo flutes.

These were taught to Jin Xiao by the senior sister of the club after joining the flute club.

Because Pengcheng is located in the south, the flute club basically teaches the skills of the Southern School.

In fact, in Jin Xiao’s opinion, it really doesn’t make much sense to divide the Southern and Northern schools, so I just made a division in vain.

Just divide art schools into only, why do you need to divide them into north and south?

But this has little to do with him.

The reason why he chose the flute club among the complex music clubs is because he likes the historical charm of flutes.

Flute, in the ancient Chinese written records, has been given a sacred wish to govern the country and ensure national stability by the ancients. The text understanding of flute seems to be consistent with the musical ideas expressed in "The Book of Music". "Fengshu" says: "The flute is to cleanse. It is to cleanse evil spirits and to accept elegance and righteousness. It is four inches long and seven holes." "The Book of Music": "The flute can cleanse evil spirits and produce positive sounds, seven holes, and lower the adjustments, and the Han department uses it. In ancient times, flutes made by cutting the frost of clouds and dreams, and the different rhymes of dragon roars, so that they cleanse evil spirits and produce positive sounds. Their control is good." It can be seen that the connotation of flute "cleans evil spirits" or "cleans evil spirits" is the same as the function of ancient palace music. Therefore, in ancient my country, the existence of flutes, the performance and application of flutes, have obvious and prominent positions in the palace music.

The legendary records of Li Mo's flute-playing art in the Tang Dynasty and the poem "Li Mo had no choice but to steal the music score, and the flute playing in the restaurant was a new sound", both illustrate the indispensableness of flute performance in the life of palace or folk music and the importance of musical expression.

In the long history of more than 8,000 years, the Chinese flute has developed on its own land and evolved to the modern relative perfection and relative shape. In the process, countless people's hard work and labor have been integrated. The bamboo tubes are within reach, countless performers, composers, and musical instrument makers have carved them carefully and worked hard to make the Chinese flute art stand in the world with an extremely distinctive and brilliant personality.

The Chinese flute that flows from ancient times to the present has regulated the ears of millions of people within the social aesthetic habits with Chinese national characteristics. It has been sounded since the primitive era and has been blown to the present. The desolate tone in it always prompts every Chinese to understand itself objectively and clearly.

This is the historical charm of the flute that Jin Xiao longs for.
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