Chapter 960: Legend in the Piano
Jin Muchen carefully took out the treasure in this box, which was rectangular and also wrapped in a thick layer of bubble plastic.
Carefully cut those bubble plastics, and the baby in it revealed its true body, which is an unusually beautiful luodian rosewood five-hyun pipa!
As soon as he looked at it, the thick purple gas revealed on this pipa stunned Jin Muchen, this was the first time he had such a purple treasure in his hands, which showed that this pipa was full of materials.
A whole handful of pipa, all made of high-quality red sandalwood material, which is absolutely rare now, just this red sandalwood material, has already made this red sandalwood pipa worth 10,000 gold.
What's more, this pipa and the historical factors behind it can be referenced!
This pipa is one of the best national treasures in Japan, and in the evaluation of the Japanese, this pipa is not only a national treasure, but even rated as a national treasure by Japanese archaeological experts!!
And the origin of this pipa, of course, is not Japan, but China, which was actually spread to Japan during the Tang Dynasty.
Speaking of the pipa, in fact, we have been in China for a long time, and it can even be traced back to the Qin Dynasty at the earliest, and not only the palace nobles at that time liked it, even ordinary people also liked it.
However, the pipa that is popular in our country in modern times is not the kind of pipa that was first invented by our nation, but a variant of the pipa that has evolved later and integrated some Western musical instrument characteristics.
The pipa during the Qin Dynasty was a straight-necked pipa, a musical instrument with four Xuan configurations.
Later, during the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the now popular kind of pipa spread from India to Persia, and then spread to the interior through the Silk Road, and then began to blend with the diameter pipa in our country.
In the Sui and Tang dynasties, the pipa developed by leaps and bounds, especially in the Tang Dynasty, because of the extreme prosperity of the cultural field, all kinds of new ideas began to penetrate from the cultural world to the music industry.
The pipa, a musical instrument, has also begun to change with the innovation of musicians.
The earliest Quxiang pipa introduced into China was five strings, and later the domestic diameter pipa began to absorb the advantages of Quxiang pipa, and all of them were transformed into Quxiang pipa, and the Quxiang pipa introduced from the Western Regions also absorbed the essence of the domestic pipa, and changed the five rings into four strings.
However, in the heyday of the development of pipa in the Tang Dynasty, almost all the pipas at that time were five-string pipa, because at that time, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty valued two musicians the most, and Taizong even had the metaphor of 'Cao Gang on the left and Xingnu on the right'.
The reason why Tang Taizong praised these two people so highly was because these two people happened to be the two pipa saints he admired the most, and they were both big pipa players from the Western Regions.
Cao Gang's hometown is Cao Guo, located in the northeast of Markand, Uzbekistan, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the ancestors of Cao Gang gradually moved eastward because of business, and moved to Chang'an City when they arrived in the Sui Dynasty, and this family has musical talent for generations, especially good at playing pipa, and there are even a few ancestors before, because the pipa played well, and was recruited into the palace as a music official.
When he arrived in Cao Gang's area, because the country was peaceful and the country was rich and strong, he played this pipa to a new height, so he was invited into the palace by Taizong, as a musical instrument instructor, and often attended various banquets and played for the royal family.
Another guy who plays pipa is Pei Shenfu from the Shule region of the Western Regions, he is the Xingnu in the mouth of Tang Taizong, and he is also a court musician that Tang Taizong values very much.
The biggest difference between him and Cao Gang is that he can play the pipa with his left hand, and he also plays it with a unique charm, so Tang Taizong will have the saying that there is Cao Gang on the left and Xingnu on the right.
Later, when Taizong had a big banquet for his ministers, he called Cao Gang and Xingnu to let them test their pipa playing skills, and the winner would get a pipa that he specially made for people.
In the end, Cao Gang won Xingnu in this music competition, and thus won the pipa, and the prize pipa was the Luodian Rosewood Wuxuan Pipa that Jin Muchen saw in front of his eyes now!
At that time, after Cao Gang got this pipa, he immediately regarded this pipa as a family heirloom, and he never took it out to show it.
This pipa is indeed worth him to do, first of all, the red sandalwood material of this pipa will not be mentioned for the time being, let's just say that the Tang Dynasty began to develop, and soon developed to the peak of the luodian technology, in this pipa has the most peak embodiment.
All kinds of gemstones, agate, gold and silver filigree, the inlay on this pipa can properly show the spirit of the Tang Dynasty, which was at its peak and in its prime.
Even now some Japanese archaeologists will show off, saying that the pipa is actually the pinnacle of the Tang Dynasty's prosperity and prosperity.
This pipa was treasured by the descendants of the Cao family, but later the Tang Ming Emperor got rid of it, and the Tang Dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and the Tang Dynasty has declined since then, and the Cao family was also broken because of the Anshi Rebellion.
In the end, this pipa did not know how to end up in Japan, and finally fell into the hands of Emperor Shomu, this emperor is said to have a bit of a special work of artistic youth, after getting this pipa is even more powerful, when you are interested, you can actually hold this pipa to play with both hands.
Later, after his death, the lute, along with many of his other favorite objects, was hidden in Todai-ji Temple in Nara.
Originally, if there was no accident, this pipa would have been kept in the whole warehouse of Todaiji Temple in Nara, but in the 14th century, Japan entered the beginning of the Muromachi period.
At that time, because of the struggle between the Ashikaga shogun family and the Fujiwara family, Japan entered the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and Emperor Daigo made the construction of the military Zhongxing, but because it touched the interests of the samurai class, the samurai rioted, and as a result, Emperor Daigo could only flee south to Yoshino, and at this time the Ashikaga General set up another emperor, so Japan entered a period of confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
And when Emperor Zi'an Ah Daigo fled south, he brought this pipa out of Todaiji Temple in Nara, and later fell to the people.
This lute was in the hands of the Kuroda family in the Kyushu region when it was in the present world, but it was already the Tokugawa shogunate era after the Muromachi shogunate.
At that time, the emperor was still set up by the Tokugawa shogunate, so even if he knew that his ancestor's treasure had fallen into the hands of the Kuroda family, he was powerless and couldn't get even the pipa back.
However, after the fall of the Tokugawa clan and the ******** of the emperor after the fall of the war, they sent an envoy to the Kuroda family in Kyushu to ask for the lute.
And the Kuroda family dared to resist at this time, but they were not willing to let the emperor leave like this pipa that had been passed down in their family for hundreds of years, so they quarreled with the emperor's people, and finally bought this messenger with a lot of money.
In the end, the envoy didn't know how he poured the soup with the emperor after he went back, and finally the emperor agreed, and the pipa could be sent back to Kuroda's family every two years for storage for a year, but it was usually kept in Todaiji Temple in Nara.
Later, after the establishment of the Kyushu National Museum, the pipa still followed the rules established by the Meiji Emperor, and it was usually stored in Todai-ji Temple in Nara, but after two years, it was exhibited at the Kyushu National Museum for one year.
And this year, it happened to be the turn of the Kyushu National Museum to exhibit this pipa, and it happened to be an earthquake again, because they were afraid that it would hurt this top treasure of the Heavenly Emperor, so the people of the Kyushu National Museum sent this "imperial treasure" to Tokyo for storage.
It is estimated that they originally wanted to wait for the earthquake to end, and then take this pipa back to continue the exhibition, but they didn't expect that this time they would never have the opportunity to see this pipa, because from today on, he belongs to Jin Muchen.
The Luodian Rosewood Pipa of the Tang Dynasty, and it is currently the only Wuxuan Pipa in the world, which is a unique product in the world!
You must know that since the decline of the Tang Dynasty, the interruption of the Silk Road, and the extinction of the Cao family, who have been living with pipa instruments for generations, there are not many people in the Central Plains who can play this five-stringed pipa.
Therefore, since then, the five-string pipa has gradually withdrawn from Chinese history and disappeared, and what has re-become popular is only the four-string pipa that has been replaced with a tune.
And the original five-stringed pipa is not only no one can play, but also disappeared directly in the long river of Chinese history, and even the authentic five-stringed piano has not been handed down a few times.
There is no one on the land of China, but the only one that remains is in the hands of Japan, China's great enemy of life and death, I really don't know whether to make people happy or sad.
And this five-string pipa is not just a pipa, if you are proficient in musical instruments, this five-stringed pipa, can also be played as a guitar, a three-stringed piano, and even a dongbula, which shows the magic of this lute.
According to the disclosure of Japanese archaeological experts, there are four or five of the top musical instruments in the Japanese Emperor's collection, but among them, the most precious one is this luodian rosewood five-stringed lute!
And from today onwards, this luodian rosewood five-string pipa will change hands, no longer from the Heavenly Emperor, but from Jin Muchen's!
As soon as he thought of getting another handful of Heavenly Emperor's treasures, Jin Muchen's heart was not to mention how refreshing, this kind of satisfaction was definitely incomparable to any other pleasure. (To be continued.) )