Chapter 986: Flying Heaven
Luo Yongde is 45 years old this year, and he is at the peak of his career. [.laThere are almost all the books I want to read.,It's much more stable than the general station.,There's no ads in the whole text.。 Moreover, he also specialized in the study of music and art related to the Dunhuang Grottoes, and the research institute sent him to help Qin Fangge also have this consideration.
Luo Yongde also asked Qin Fangge what kind of murals and sculptures they mainly wanted to see, after all, the content of the Dunhuang grottoes is too extensive and rich, although it has been stolen by foreigners and lost a lot, but in terms of the existing situation, it is still the most in the world. If there is a focus, Luo Yongde can also be targeted.
Qin Fangge also knew that it was unrealistic to read it all, so he told him, "Let's visit the caves related to music and dance!"
That's a lot, Luo Yongde is worthy of being a senior researcher, he immediately reported it to Qin Fangge, "In the Mogao Grottoes alone, there are more than 200 caves with music materials, more than 3,500 musicians, more than 490 bands of different sizes, 44 musical instruments, and more than 4,540 pieces. Generally, the murals and sculptures of singing and dancing are all together, do you need to visit the dance separately?"
Qin Fangge and the girls decided to watch music-related first, after all, everyone is not so professional in dance.
The girls also asked him if he could take pictures, and Luo Yongde got permission from the research institute in advance and said that it was no problem. This is also an extra kindness to Qin Fangge, a musical genius, ordinary tourists are not allowed, not that the flash destroys the mural sculpture, but there are other considerations, such as crowding to take photos and videos that delay time.
Of course, Qin Fangge and they also have to keep a low profile, and don't behave unscrupulously in front of other tourists.
Luo Yongde is a senior expert, and he also has a plan to make travel arrangements in advance, and took them to visit the Mogao Grottoes first.
During this period, Xia Xue, the tour guide, played the role of a tourist, and together with Lin Baoqing and them, listened to Luo Yongde explain, "According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 6,000 images of musical instruments in the Dunhuang Grottoes. If we want to restore or reproduce the music of the old times, we can only rely on you musicians to do it! I have listened to your musical works, and I can feel that you have a very high attainment in national music...... There are so many music portraits preserved in the Dunhuang Grottoes, and I believe that it should be of great help to your music creation and interpretation. ”
The Dunhuang Grottoes he talked about include the Mogao Grottoes, the West Thousand Buddha Caves, the Yulin Caves, the East Thousand Buddha Caves and the five temple grottoes of Subei Mongolian Autonomous County.
Qin Fangge and Zuo Shuqin should be modest, even Qin Fangge, a musical genius, has no capital to be proud of in Dunhuang culture. In the study of Dunhuang music, many predecessors have made their own efforts and contributions, and what he wants to do is to stand on the shoulders of these predecessors and create more brilliant musical works.
Before that, follow in Luo Yongde's footsteps and visit these murals and sculptures first.
It has to be said that this kind of thing recorded in the form of murals and sculptures has been preserved longer and in greater quantities than other forms such as paintings on paper and carved on bamboo slips. [.laThere are almost all the books I want to read.,It's much more stable than the general station.,There's no ads in the whole text.。 It is not an exaggeration to say that this is the most precious material of music culture.
Qin Fangge got a lot of relevant information from Zhang Xiaoyang, and this time he also planned to copy some from the Dunhuang Academy, and the Institute also responded positively and cooperated with this. In the testament of Dunhuang, there are a lot of music documents and historical materials, such as Dunhuang music scores, pipa twenty notations, Dunhuang dance scores, etc., which are particularly valuable for research and can be called rare treasures.
The Japanese have also studied this area deeply, and have also interpreted and translated it into modern staves based on Dunhuang musical notation, which has had a great influence on the world.
Of course, the Dunhuang Academy hopes that talented musicians in China can study more things and vigorously promote Dunhuang culture.
Those documents and materials, Qin Fangge can go back and slowly study and interpret them.
The music and dance images on the Dunhuang murals can be visited on the spot first, and then he will carefully study the digital version when he goes back. The content is quite rich, the forms are also very diverse, the instruments are very varied, the playing postures are vivid, the orchestra rehearsals are spectacular, and the combination of instruments is quite elegant. This is quite rare at home and abroad, equivalent to the music of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Yuan Dynasty for more than 1,000 years, all recorded here.
Qin Fangge also has to thank these painters for their hard work and providing him with vivid and precious image historical materials.
Zuo Shuqin and Lin Baoqing, girls who study folk music, came to the scene in person and were shocked when they saw the lifelike band combinations on the grotto. This was thousands of years ago, and the music culture at that time was already so colorful. What the murals and sculptures describe is not imaginary, but has a basis in reality.
As a convergence point of cultural exchanges between the East and the West, Dunhuang not only has the characteristics of Western Regions music, but also records the Han and Tang courts and folk music in the Central Plains.
Lin Baoqing's best musical instrument is the guqin, in the Dunhuang murals, the qin does not appear much, and the most appearing instrument is Chen Tianhong's best pipa. But Lin Baoqing's own pipa attainments are not shallow, and their family also has musical instruments such as restoration and building.
In the Dunhuang grottoes they observed, there were musical instruments such as the qin, the seer, the zheng, and the gonghou.
There are also a wide variety of percussion instruments, mainly drums, and the way of playing is also rich and varied. On the murals and sculptures, Pan Lina saw the lifelike and active demeanor of many musicians playing various drums, and through their movements, you can also judge their skillful skills, many of which made her, a student majoring in ethnic percussion, feel a little embarrassed.
There are a variety of types of percussion instruments, including drums, waist drums, drums, drums, drums, drums, drums, clappers, etc. She majored in percussion, and she was dazzled, and she couldn't remember so many things for a while, so she took pictures with her mobile phone camera first. Of course, the most important thing is to remember which cave it is in, and you can go to the institute's digital website to check it carefully.
Pan Lina is the only percussion instrument in girls' middle school, which also makes her feel a lot of pressure.
But other girls are actually not easy, the heavy vicissitudes of life shown in the Dunhuang Grottoes, especially the massive music images, will put pressure on them.
Ye Xiuling, Xiao Jingru, and Li Ruoli are learning wind music, and the wind music instruments in the Dunhuang Grottoes are also particularly rich. Pan flute, horizontal flute, vertical flute, sheng, horn, conch, xun, etc., are also dizzying. The volume of the wind is generally relatively large, the timbre is quite prominent, and the position in the band is also quite important, which is quite reflected in the murals.
As for the pipa, it is undoubtedly the musical instrument that appears most frequently in the Dunhuang murals, and it also has the same expression in poetry. In the Tiangong music, there are quite a lot of pipa flying into the sky, and the rebound pipa is the most typical and well-known image.
In addition, such as the Ruan, which Wang Zizi is good at, and the Huqin, the predecessor of the erhu, are also reflected in the murals.
Girls can basically find the type of musical instrument they are good at from the murals and sculptures.
Zuo Shuqin and Teng Shuting paid more attention to the composition of the orchestra in the Dunhuang Grottoes. It is also colorful and varied, and it is not enough to analyze and estimate it in detail with a single book. Although the organizational form of their orchestra has been decided, it still has considerable reference value.
If Qin releases a song, this will be full of horsepower, in addition to the music-related mural sculptures, he also pays attention to the music and dance above.
In the Dunhuang Grottoes, music and dance are inextricably linked, there must be music and dance, and there must be music when there is dance. In Cave No. 297 of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, two Maiko are performing a folk dance of the Western Regions with national colors, and the instruments that accompany her are the Zhu, Konghou, Wuxian, Pipa and other musical instruments. The perfect combination of dance and music, with a high degree of unity, also brought Qin Fangge, who came to watch the murals thousands of years later, their supreme artistic enjoyment. Spread the wings of association again, and return to the prosperous era at that time, which is even more exciting and emotional.
And the "Flying Sky" trick is the most worth mentioning. Among her tricks, she is the most distinctive and representative, and the most fascinating. It is also a major development in the form of self-performance and self-dance, and the combination of dance and music since the Sixteen Kingdoms.
Qin Fangge feels that this can be regarded as a reflection of the grand occasion of the development of music and dance, and a genius creation of art masters, which not only greatly enriches the content of the mural, but also is an artistic treasure that combines fantasy and reality. She symbolizes good luck, good fortune, and good happiness.
Buddhist scriptures say that Feitian is a god who specializes in spreading fragrance in the Elysian World, can play music, is good at flying, the image is vivid and lively, and there are thousands of postures. In the murals, in addition to using her to express the story of Buddhism, she also appears as a god who can play music and dance.
Luo Yongde, who has studied particularly deeply, also explained Feitian to Qin Fangge and the girls, "Feitian Leki is actually a composite of the god of music Gandapo and the god of song-Jinnaro. Gandharva and Kina Shu Buddhist Dharma Protector - two minor gods of the Eight Gods of the Heavenly Dragon. There is a distinction between their initial functions. The god of music, Gandava, is also known as the god of incense because of the fragrance exuded by his body. His mission is to offer flowers, incense, treasures, and praise to the Buddha and Bodhisattva in the world of Buddhahood. Inhabit the flowers. Fly in the clouds. The mission of the god of songs, Jinnashu, is to play music and dance for Buddhas, bodhisattvas, gods, and celestial beings in the world of Buddha. Dwelling in the heavenly palace, you can't fly in the clouds. Later, the functions of Gandharva and Kinnara gradually became one with the artistic creation of the ancient painters: Gandhara held a musical instrument in the air, sang and danced, and Kinnara also rushed out of the heavenly palace pavilion and flew in the sky last year. The two gods became one and turned into the current Dunhuang Flying Sky. This can also be seen as a sign of the localization of Buddhism, but it has undoubtedly become more romantic, isn't it?"
Everyone nodded, everyone is engaged in art, how can you do it without a little romantic cell!
And Qin Fangge also has a relationship with Luo Yongdra, asking for his research materials, such as published papers or something. Luo Yongde also readily agreed, and said with a smile, "In fact, when we do research, we are not afraid of loneliness or loneliness, and the most afraid is that our research results will not be known and recognized." If it can help you, I've done a good thing!"
"Teacher Luo is too modest, just your explanation has benefited us a lot!" Zuo Shuqin said with a smile, a group of girls didn't cause him any trouble, everyone got along quite happily, and they were all Yanjing villagers.
Lin Baoqing also said that there are too many cultural and artistic contents contained in the Dunhuang Grottoes, which made them a little unable to digest it for a while.
Luo Yongde nodded and said, "When I saw the Dunhuang murals with my own eyes, I felt the same way as you. Now that I glance at it, so many years have passed, and I have studied it for so long, and I feel that there are more things that I don't understand. These splendid cultures are really worth spending a lifetime savoring......"
Their travel speed is still quite fast, basically visiting a cave in less than ten minutes, which is about the same as the speed of ordinary tourists. Fortunately, it is now the off-season for tourism, and there are not so many tourists, Qin Fangge can enjoy special treatment. At the end of this day, in order to save time, lunch was dry food, and Luo Yongde took them to visit more than 70 caves. At this rate, it would take three days just to visit the Grottoes of Mogao Grottoes with musical materials.
But Qin Fangge thought that such a time was worth it, and after inviting Luo Yongde and a few colleagues from the research institute to have a full meal in the evening, he decided to continue the next day. Luo Yongde also said that he sacrificed his life to accompany the gentleman, and also said that when Zhang Xiaoyang directed them to come to Dunhuang to shoot a documentary, he also got the strong cooperation of their Dunhuang Academy, and finally it was successfully completed. At the same time, he also said that he is looking forward to the initial effect of this Silk Road documentary. He didn't forget to encourage Qin Fangge to work hard to create, saying that he knew that it was not easy to create, and what he wanted to complete was not only the music of Dunhuang. Dunhuang only accounts for one episode in the Silk Road documentary, and there are many other places of music!
When Luo Yongde talked about the connection between Dunhuang music and other music, he was also very upset.
Dunhuang existed as a hub of cultural exchanges between the East and the West, and also integrated Eastern and Western cultures, and finally formed a unique cultural form. Musically, music from the Western Regions was introduced, and the music of Greece, Rome, Central Asia, India and other places was influenced, and the music culture of the Central Plains was also spread in turn. The Silk Road is not only a trade route, but also has a higher historical and cultural value and significance.
He also asked about Qin Fangge's itinerary, and he said that he also planned to go to the location of the original Qiuzi Ancient Kingdom, the current Kuqa to have a look.
Luo Yongde said that the influence of Qiuzi music on Dunhuang music is also quite large, not only in the same line, but also developed many of its own characteristics, specific analysis and research and new creation, but also have to be completed by a genius like Qin Fangge.
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