Chapter 22: The Law of Twelve Equals
"How can you, an Oriental, know piano music? It's incredible! Jenna asked the servant to give two luxurious gemstone necklaces to Roy, whose face was swollen like a pig's head, while politely asking Ye Kai with a surprised smile!
The tone is really uncomfortable!
What happened to the yellow race?
When Lao Tzu's ancestors created a glorious history, your ancestors were still eating pig food in the cave!
Just a few decades ago, you thought you were a beacon of civilization all over the world?
But Ye Kai sighed again, who told us to fall behind in this most critical one or two hundred years!
"Miss Jenna, the color of a person's skin is not indicative of his level of civilization, although it is true in most parts of the world, but it is not absolute! I'm yellow, but that doesn't mean I don't know anything about music and science! Taking another deep breath, Ye Kai opened his mouth to explain.
"Really? Even if what you say is right, I still can't understand that you, a yellow race, are so familiar with the piano, even in Europe, there are not many people who can come into contact with it! Jenna frowned, still feeling incomprehensible.
"That's because the piano was built because there was a yellow man like me who set the tone for it through complex calculations, so I know the piano!"
Ye Kai suddenly thought of a person, a 'cattle man' who has only become well-known over the years - Xiao Zheng Wang Zhu Zaiyu!
"Mr. Zinedin, this joke is not funny at all, how dare you say that!"
Jenna's tone was full of anger, she regarded Ye Kai as a liar, and the eyes of the white people around her became even more unkind!
"In 1636, the famous French mathematician and musician, Mr. Pierre Marin Mason, published his general theory of homophony, and he is said to be considered by you Europeans to be the father of acoustics, right?" Ye Kai asked softly.
"Yes! This is a great musicologist! Peter nodded in agreement, but everyone didn't understand what this leaf had to do with it.
"In 1722, the great SΓ©bastian Bach, the author of the piece that Miss Jeanne had just played, published the famous collection of twelve equal temperaments, and adapted the piano of the present day according to the theory of this book, right?" Ye Kai asked again.
"Yes! Mr. Bach is such a great musician, it's just a pity that I didn't get to meet him and didn't have the opportunity to ask him for advice! β
Speaking of Bach, the British chick became excited, her pale face was covered with red glow, and her eyes became eager, which had a very kind of meaning that you were born and I was not born.
"Do you know that Miss Jenna? Neither Mr. Mason nor Mr. Bach were the inventors of the law of twelve, the real inventor was a yellow like me! Ye Kai pointed to his nose and said word by word.
"It can't be!"
"This is ridiculous! Qing is not at all a country that can produce scientific soil! You're lying about the yellow race! β
The surrounding whites all rebuked loudly, they didn't believe that a yellow person could achieve much in music and science, and the Qing Kingdom was an Ottoman-like decadent country, which was the consensus of all Nanyang whites!
"Miss Jenna, don't believe this despicable liar, I have known him and his father for many years, this kid is a loser, a liar who lies without blinking!" After Marco instructed his servants to take his son to rest, he hurried over.
Jenna chick nodded, obviously agreeing with the views of everyone present, "Yellow race, do you have any evidence to prove it?" If not, you have to take back your words! β
"Absolutely!" Ye Kai smiled faintly, "Miss Jenna, I wonder if you would like to listen to the story of a great musician and musician?" β
"Ahem! Gentlemen, I think you should hear why this yellow man said that! Jenna nodded, reminding the others in passing.
In 1550, when the Ming Dynasty ruled China, a prince of the Ming Dynasty was punished by the emperor for opposing his addiction to Taoism, a native Chinese religion, and imprisoned him in a palace of his own.
His Royal Highness had a fifteen-year-old son, and when he saw his father wronged, he built a modest house outside the palace where the prince was imprisoned, so that he would not feel alone.
He wore coarse cloth clothes and ate simple food every day, and he accompanied his father in this humble house, because only in this way could he have a short conversation with his father across the wall! β
"This is a typical Chinese morality, they pay attention to the absolute filial piety of sons to their parents, and this culture also exists among the nobles and officials of the Quang Nam people, although I don't approve of this deliberate behavior, but I think there is still something to be desired!" Peter nodded, and explained to the others by the way!
"I don't think it's deliberate, respectful elders, it's his obedience to his inner morality, he's embodying his outlook on life!" Ye Kai shook his head and retorted.
"You can guess how many years this prince has lived like this? How long do you think a deliberate behavior lasts? Ye Kai looked around and asked!
"I think I can last a month! It is impossible for a noble prince to wear simple clothes and eat coarse food every day, which is not in line with the living standards of a nobleman! An elderly white woman spoke.
"Impossible! I think it's good to last a week, these yellow people in the Qing Kingdom like to be lazy the most! "Marco still looks extremely bad.
"It may last for a year or two, and I have studied this culture in depth, because Quang Nam people also have such moral standards!" Peter thought for a moment and spoke.
"A year or two?" Everyone around them was surprised, "This is really not an easy task!" β
Ye Kai didn't pay attention to Marko's crazy words, but smiled faintly, "Gentlemen, what I want to tell you is that this prince has not stayed in this humble house for a year or two, let alone a month or two, but for nineteen years, a whole nineteen years!"
It was not until he was thirty-four years old that his father was pardoned by the newly succeeded emperor that the prince ended his simple life! β
"Nineteen years? My God! Seriously, I really can't believe anyone can hold out for so long! β
'Hum', the crowd exploded, no wonder they were surprised, when Ye Kai first heard about it, he was also surprised, nineteen years! Life can have 19 years!
Of course, the prince did not do nothing during these nineteen years, and in these days men of great learning from all over the country came to visit him and were overwhelmed by his filial piety.
There are famous mathematicians, astronomers, calendarists, writers, philosophers, and so on.
The prince had studied and discussed with them in depth, and by the time he left the humble house, the fifteen-year-old young prince had grown into a learned prince!
It was during these nineteen years that he used a super-large abacus, a Chinese-style calculation tool, to prove that the interval of the prosodic scale can be taken to the twelfth power of two, which is the famous twelve equal temperament!
This theory was brought to Europe by the missionaries of the time, and I have reason to believe that this theory had a great influence on European musicians, especially Mr. Bach! β