From the Army", is this the name of the poem written by Ren Jun? ”

On the way out of Yumen Pass in the early morning, Liu Yaoguang still remembered the heroic and magnificent four sentences on the wall.

And Ren Hong added the words "from the army" under this small poem as the title.

She could imagine that a year and a half ago, when Ren Hong went out of the Jade Gate with Fu Jiezi's army, the young man looked back at the Jade Gate and made great ambitions in his heart.

The result? If you say that Loulan is broken, you will break Loulan! He also destroyed the turtle by the way, what a pride.

"I just don't know, this poem can be scored?"

Liu Yaoguang hugged her beloved Qin Pipa, with some itchy skills, her favorite is this kind of poetry with the sound of gold and iron, it would be better if she could play and sing.

"I don't know music theory, and I haven't composed music yet."

Ren Hong is self-aware, he can copy a poem, and music is a professional's technical work, and he can't do it at all.

Poetry and music will go hand in hand, so there will be music if there is poetry, and the song will be forever, the sound will be eternal, and the rhythm will be harmonious. In the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, most poems could be sung with music. The Book of Poetry has "three hundred poems, three hundred string poems, three hundred song poems, three hundred dance poems", if the nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period want to give poetry and words at the banquet, but to rap and dance triathlon, the five tones are incomplete or the body is not coordinated do not go up to offer ugliness.

And Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up a music house, with the great musician Li Yannian as the assistant lieutenant, and let Sima Xiangru and other dozens of words and ministers poems to compose lyrics, a little about the law Lu, combined with the tune of eight tones, to make nineteen chapters of the song, the first month of the Xin on the Ganquan Palace on the mound, so that the children and men seventy people singing.

Breaking down the process, it is the composition of later songs, lyrics, and children's chorus.

Liu Yaoguang heard that "From the Army" did not yet have music, and immediately became interested, and volunteered: "Can Ren Jun let me score?" “

Ren Hong readily agreed: "I can't ask for it, but some of my improvised poems don't rhyme." ”

The rhyme of the Han Dynasty is still very different from that of the Tang Dynasty, thanks to the inheritance of Chinese characters, a poem may be read and read to understand, but once the music is scored, it will be out of tune.

But Liu Yaoguang just wanted to challenge, she was the best pipa player in Wusun, and when she went to Chang'an, she also wanted to "learn the piano and drums" from the musicians in the Lin Le Mansion in Pingxing.

She told Ren Hong: "Before my mother went to Wusun and Qin, she had studied ritual music in Shanglin Yuefu, and she told me that there are generally four grades of Chinese music......

"One is Da Yu Le, and the other is Zhou Song Ya Le, all of which are ancient music, which belong to Taile Lingguan and are specially played during the sacrificial ceremony."

"The three are said to be preached by the Yellow Gate, and the Son of Heaven is played when he feasts on the ministers; The four short flute cymbals are songs, this is the joy of the army, and they are all under the control of Yuefu. ”

Listening to Liu Yaoguang's popular science, Ren Hong knew that there are also topics such as out of the plug and into the plug in the short flute cymbal songs, and the most famous is the song "South of the Battle City", which writes about the life and conquest of the border fortress, and the theme is similar to the Tang Dynasty side plug poems.

Most of the words of these cymbal songs have been lost, but the tune has been used in the Southern Dynasty and was adopted by the Tang people, for example, there is a song in the cymbal song "Will Enter the Wine" that Ren Hong is very familiar with......

In addition to blowing short Xiao, Yuefu also collected the praise of Dai and Zhao, and the wind of Qin and Chu, all of which were felt by sadness and happiness, and happened by fate. The rhyme of the tune varies from place to place, and there is always something suitable for this poem. ”

Liu Yaoguang gently played with Qin Pipa on the horse, and began to try to score the poem: "When I arrive in Chang'an and enter the Lin Yue Mansion, I will use this "From the Army" as the first music!" ”

"I want to let those noble ladies who learn to dance on the piano and piano in Yuefu listen to how majestic the sound of the side plug is, countless times stronger than the deep resentment. And Ren Jun's poem will definitely be selected into the Yuefu song and sung in Chang'an! ”

Ren Hong only felt a little weird, but it was not easy to stop Yaoguang, so he could only whisper in the ear of the radish:

"Radish, radish, you said that this "From the Army" is a good Tang poem, why is it going to become a Han Yuefu poem?"

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From Yumen to Dunhuang City, it is necessary to walk for two whole days, the first day to Hecang City, where there are many more naan pits than in the past, and the second day to arrive at the place where the Dang River and the Shule River meet, along the west bank of the Dang River to the south.

Along the way, Princess Yaoguang was pondering the matter of composing music, or contemplating it, or gently plucking the pipa.

And Liu Wannian, the prince of Wusun, was about to go crazy, this little kid slowly became excited from the excitement of seeing Yumen Pass for the first time, and complained:

"I thought that after entering the Han Dynasty, the scenery would be different, but after two days of entering the customs, this Dunhuang is still only desert, poplar, and even a big city has not been seen. What is the difference with the Western Regions. ”

Nonsense, Dunhuang County is one of the one hundred and three counties in the Han Dynasty, the least populous county, only more than 30,000 people, Dunhuang City is not bad, but if you want to find people outside, isn't it a tree for fish?

Ren Hong wanted to teach this little son a lesson, so he pointed to the acres of fields connected to each other along the Dang River and showed Liu Wannian: "Prince Wannian, the wealth and strength of Shangbang are not in the size of the city, not in the height of the temple, but in this inconspicuous field and ditch. ”

"Shanshan Loulan also has a ditch." Liu Wannian argued strongly, anyway, he didn't see anything famous.

"The ditches in the Western Regions are chaotic, how can they be compared with the meticulously planned Dunhuang."

Ren Hong pointed to the largest ditch channel: "This is called Maquankou Weir, Xiaowu Emperor Yuan Ding six years repaired, its weir north and south one hundred and fifty steps, twenty steps wide, two zhang high, a total of five doors, water to irrigate the countryside, according to the size of the water to adjust the water flow, to ensure that the average general, irrigated 3,000 hectares!" ”

This is the hub of Dunhuang water conservancy, and in addition to the Maquankou weir, there are many small canals around, most of which are built by the government organization, such as the second right inner canal they arrived at next, the water gate is six feet wide, and it is twelve miles long.

An elaborate irrigation network was formed.

They resemble the arteries and capillaries of Dunhuang, connecting the Dang and Shule rivers to the arid farmlands, and now in early July, the abundant snow water of the Qilian Mountains flows through the ditches and flows into the fields, moistening the millet that has gradually turned yellow.

Don't look at the small population of Dunhuang, but when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered Dawan, the fields here could support tens of thousands of troops, and if there were no these ditches, you would have to watch the sky and eat like the Western Regions.

Ren Hong remembers that he had heard a saying about "water conservancy civilization": because the water conservancy irrigation in the eastern society required integrated cooperation, mobilized the country's manpower and material resources, and required strong management and control, it gave rise to an autocratic royal power, which further evolved into a big empire.

This is the "Asiatic mode of production" proposed by Marx.

For an agricultural civilization, the foundation of civilization is not the height of the city and the size of the palace, but how much manpower and material resources have been invested in water conservancy.

A vast irrigation network, which often takes several generations to complete, is a test of a country's organizational strength. Without the construction of these foundations, no matter how much the wonders were built, they would have collapsed overnight.

Therefore, in Dunhuang, which is dry and rainless, leading immigrants to open ditches and build water conservancy is the most important function of the county government.

The county has a main water history, and leads the water officials of the eastern capital and the water officials of the western capital, and leads the officials, prisoners, and officials and slaves to rectify the water conservancy. There is also a canal chief, who is responsible for managing the canal and allocating the canal water. It also sets up a water inspector and a full-time inspector of water conservancy.

The river canal guards and canal control soldiers mainly come from Guanzhong and Hedong, which are the places with the largest concentration of water conservancy ditches in the Han Dynasty, and they are very experienced in how to dig ditches and open wells......

In Dunhuang, you can only see the leopard in the tube, and in Dahan, almost every county has a supporting water conservancy ditch. These efforts led to a little increase in local grain production, and the warehouses were stale, and the Han Dynasty basically fed more than 50 million people by relying only on dozens of counties in the north.

This is the benefit of more than 100 years of peace after the Chu and Han dynasties, if there are frequent wars and constant infighting, the water conservancy ditches are easy to silt up and abandon, and then the population will fall off a cliff.

However, Liu Wannian is not interested in these things that form the basis of civilization.

However, Liu Yaoguang pointed to the distance, a group of people were shirtless, working in full swing, and baskets of soil were constantly being transported.

"What are they doing? Dig wells? ”

Ren Hong nodded, and shook his head again: "Yes and no." “

"What do you mean by that?"

Ren Hong said with a smile: "The Dunhuang people call this skill 'Hundred Eyes String Well', so it is indeed a kind of well." ”

He said mysteriously: "But under the seemingly ordinary wellhead, there are still some mysteries, do the princess and the prince want to see it?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Liu Wannian's curiosity was immediately aroused, and he wanted to go over to watch the work of the canal guards, but was stopped by Ren Hong.

"Don't delay their work, go a little further south, if I'm not mistaken, there's a section dug in front. If the Qu Governor agrees, we can go down and find out! ”

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PS: The second chapter is in the afternoon.