Chu Zehao has a friend Jiang Hanxuan, who has played since he was a child, and others say that he is the rich second generation, so he resists from the bottom of his heart, "How vulgar is the rich second generation!" I'm obviously the second generation of piano! ”

In fact, Jiang Hanxuan, who was born in 1988, is indeed an out-and-out "second generation of piano". Jiang Hanxuan's uncle is Wang Peng, a famous guqin master in contemporary China.

The "Swire Relics" guqin played at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics was written by Wang Peng. Since the second semester of his freshman year, Jiang Hanxuan has been learning to make guqin in his uncle Wang Peng's "Tianyun Fang".

Jiang Hanxuan is accustomed to wearing off-road vehicles with open tops, wearing limited-edition gold studded sneakers, and smoking pipes......

However, when I met Jiang Hanxuan, the "son of a gentleman", it was difficult to associate him with the guqin, the oldest musical instrument in China. Isn't the imaginary guqin "qin" person supposed to be fairy and walk with fairy energy? What's even more unexpected is that he can also open a Tmall store, which is industry-leading.

Talking about the guqin, Jiang Hanxuan said: "The guqin is one of the oldest ancient musical instruments in China. In 2003, the guqin was included in the world intangible cultural heritage. ”

The guqin, known as the lyre, is an ancient plucked string instrument that originated during the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" period. Just like Wang Wei's "Bamboo Pavilion", "Sitting alone in the secluded fence, Lin Shen people don't know." Playing the piano and roaring, the bright moon comes to take photos", as explained, in the deep mountains and forests, it is a kind of pleasant artistic conception to bring the guqin and the natural world as friends.

Originally, the guqin had only five strings, the inner combination of five elements, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and the outer combination of five tones, palace, business, horn, sign, and feather. Later, King Wen was imprisoned in Jinli, missing his son Bo Yi Kao, and added a string for Wen Xian; When King Wu fell, he added a string, which was for the martial string. Collectively known as the civil and military lyre.

The guqin has a beautiful shape, and the common ones are Fuxi style, Shennong style, Zhongni style, Liezi style, Lianzhu style, Luoxia style, Lingji style, banana leaf style, sword style, etc. It is mainly differentiated according to the item of the body and the shape of the waist.

The lacquer has broken lines, which is a sign of the ancient age of the guqin. Due to the vibration of long-term performance and the difference between wood and lacquer bottom, a variety of broken lines can be formed, such as plum blossom breaks, cow hair breaks, snake belly breaks, ice cracks, turtle lines, etc. The piano with broken lines has a clear sound and beautiful appearance, so it is more precious. The ancient famous pianos include Luqi, Jiaowei, Spring Thunder, Bingqing, the Great Sage's Relic, Jiuxiao Huanpei and so on.

For example, the Zhongni-style guqin is generally about 3 feet 6 inches and 5 inches (about 120-125 cm) long, symbolizing 365 days in a year (365 degrees Celsius in one case). It is generally about six inches (about 20 cm) wide. It is generally about two inches (about 6 cm) thick. The lower part of the body is flat, and the upper part is arc-shaped and convex, symbolizing heaven and earth respectively, corresponding to the ancient saying that the sky is round and the place is in harmony. The overall shape is made according to the shape of the phoenix body, and its whole body corresponds to the phoenix body (it can also be said to correspond to the human body).

It is recorded in the "Preface to the Qin": "The qin of Fuxi, one string, is seven feet and two inches long. In the Han Dynasty Huan Tan's "New Treatise" recorded: "Shennong's piano is made of pure silk strings and carved paulownia wood as the piano. By the time of the Five Emperors, it was changed to eight feet and six inches. Yu Shun changed it to five strings, and Wu Wang changed it to seven strings. "Shun Dingqin is 5 strings, King Wen adds one string, and King Wu adds another string to seven strings. The one unearthed from the tomb of Marquis Yi is said to be a 10-stringed harp. I heard that there were 32-string pianos in ancient times.

Every time Jiang Hanxuan introduces the guqin to a customer, it is like a treasure. The upper part of the "headstock" is called the forehead. The lower end of the forehead is inlaid with hardwood with strings, called "Yueshan", also known as "Linyue", and is the highest part of the qin.

There are two sound grooves at the bottom of the piano, the larger one in the middle is called "Dragon Pond", and the smaller one in the tail is called "Fengnuma". This is called going up the mountain and going down, and there are dragons and phoenixes, symbolizing all the things in heaven and earth.

There is a strip of hardwood on the forehead side of the mountain, which is called "Chenglu". There are seven "string eyes" on it, which are used to tie the strings. There are seven "pianos" for tuning.

At the side end of the headstock, there are "phoenix eyes" and "guards". From the waist down, it is called the "tail". The tail is inlaid with a shallow grooved hardwood "gum" to set the strings. The trim on both sides of the gum is called the "crown horn", also known as the "scorched tail".

The seven strings start from the exposed part, pass through the mountain and the dragon's gum, and turn to a pair of "goose feet" at the bottom of the piano, symbolizing the seven stars.

In the belly of the piano, there are two dark grooves on the head, one is a "tongue point", one is a "sound pool", and one is a "Nayin" There is also a dark groove at the end, which is called "Yunnuma".

Corresponding to the dragon pond and the phoenix swamp, there is often a "Nayin" for each. There is a "heavenly pillar" on the head side of Longchi Nayin, and an "earth pillar" on the tail side. When the voice is spoken, "the voice wants to come out and is narrow, and it lingers, but there is an aftertaste."

Because the piano does not have a "fret" (column) or "yard", it is very convenient to play flexibly, and it has the characteristics of particularly long effective strings, large amplitude of strings, and long aftersounds, so it has its unique walking sound.

The front of the piano is wide and the back is narrow, symbolizing the difference between respect and inferiority. The five strings of palace, business, horn, sign and feather symbolize the five social levels of king, courtier, people, affairs and things. Later, the sixth and seventh strings were added, called the two strings of Wen and Wu, symbolizing the grace of the monarch and the minister. The thirteen emblems symbolize the month of December, and the largest emblem in the center represents the leap month.

Guqin has three kinds of timbres: overtone, scattered sound and press tone, the overtone method of heaven, the sound of the earth, and the legal person of the sound, which symbolizes the harmony of heaven, earth and man respectively.

Guqin has the saying that "the scholar does not withdraw the qin for no reason" and "the left qin and the right book". Since ancient times, the guqin has been a necessary knowledge and compulsory subject for many literati.

Wang Peng, a guqin artist who is good at chopping the qin and playing the piano, does just that, a piano, or the deep mountain and old forest or the top of the cliff of the Yellow Mountain, looking at his own heart between the strings, and the taste of the fairy wind and bones comes out like this.

Guqin has always been a relatively "niche" field, since ancient times there has been a "spring and snow, high and low" shape, but it has never been marginalized, so the qin is still endless.

Jiang Hanxuan sometimes sees people placing the guqin in the wrong position, it should be with the wide head facing right, the narrow head facing left, the thinnest line facing himself, and the emblem point and the thickest string on the opposite side. The shaft of the guqin, that is, the wide end, is to be suspended outside the right side of the table.

In the guqin industry, handmade qin craftsmen are respected as "qin masters". Jiang Hanxuan said: "With my current violin-making skills, I am far from daring to call myself a 'luthier'. ”

The first process of "chopping the qin" is the selection of materials. The Lei family, a family of qin chopping in the Tang Dynasty of China, once summarized the experience of "chopping the qin" as: "good selection of materials, deep intentions, five hundred years, and positive sound".

Generations of people make guqin first important material selection. The piano material is best to use hundreds or thousands of years old beams, and the panel should be made of sycamore or fir wood with straight texture, uniform width, moderate hardness, no defects such as scars and moth-eaten trees, and hard catalpa wood and other wood as the base plate.

There is also the same wood as the panel, which is called "pure masculinity", which should be reasonably matched according to the vibration of the material! The most important thing to make a good piano is the experience and skill level of the luthier, and the decisive factor is the groove structure and the treatment of the lacquer tire, otherwise no matter how good the wood is, it will not be possible to make a piano with good timbre.

And the sound of the sound is inseparable from good materials, beautiful cuts, wonderful fingers, and righteous hearts. Good materials and beauty are the production of guqin. Since ancient times, the guqin production has been continued to use the ancient method, this method is very complex, to go through the selection of materials, modeling, groove belly, the combination of the qin, gray tire, grinding, polishing, emblem, foot, winding, adjustment of timbre and other processes.

The "chopping" in "Meiqiao" is the meaning of chopping with a knife and axe, and "chopping the qin" is to chop the wood with an axe to make the top and bottom plate of the qin, so the wooden tire has initially set the style of the guqin.

After the wooden tire is completed, the gray tire is an important part of the violin-making process, and its main function is to adjust the timbre. One of the important materials is antler cream, that is, after the horns of sika deer and red deer are ripe and fall off, the oily gum moisture is removed, and then ground into powder and scraped together with lacquer on the surface of the piano, in order to adjust the timbre and suppress the vibration of the piano. The process of gray tire, drying, and grinding will be repeated more than 20 times, and each time will last about a week.

"A 'luthier' has to be a carpenter, a lacquerer, a tuner, an engraver, a painter...... said.

In Jiang Hanxuan's office, there is the first guqin he made. This piano has been made for two years, and several people have asked for it at a high price, but he has refused.

Jiang Hanxuan observed that many ordinary guqin beginners are reluctant to choose the high-priced guqin, and most of the cheap guqins on the market are shoddy.

As a result, Jiang Hanxuan founded his own independent brand "Tianyunfang", specializing in cost-effective guqin below 20,000 yuan or even several thousand yuan, and was determined to use conscience and quality to change the chaos of "no good qin below 10,000 yuan".

Han Yu, a post-90s employee of "Tianyunfang", was the first batch of guqin buyers in the early days of "Tianyunfang". At that time, because he had doubts about the process, he debated with Jiang Hanxuan on the Internet.

Han Yu is a person who loves the qin, and when he was in elementary school, he watched a scene in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" - Zhuge Liang burned incense and played the piano on the city tower to retreat from the enemy, and since then he has fallen in love with the guqin.

But he didn't know much about the guqin, so he had a misunderstanding. Don't fight and don't know each other, Han Yu resigned from his job in Qingdao at that time and came to Tianyunfang to study the guqin while working, which was 6 years.

Jiang Hanxuan communicates with customers who come to change the strings. He likened the person who plays the piano to a "nobleman", but emphasized that "noble" definitely does not mean wealth, but knowledge and cultivation.

As the founder and CEO of Tianyunfang, Jiang Hanxuan insists on being the customer service of the Tmall store. "For the musical instrument industry, professional customer service is too important. Even if the guests don't buy it, we must convey the correct guqin cognition to them in communication. ”

In 2015, Jiang Hanxuan met a guqin "piano idiot" and a DJ friend of China Radio International's European and American pop radio station through Tmall sales.

You Peng is passionate about the collection and research of guqin historical recordings. In his opinion, although the guqin has won the title of world intangible cultural heritage, it is far inferior to Western music, whether it is original, performance, research, dissemination or publication, and compared with a single instrument piano, it is also much worse.

You Peng said that the acquaintance with Jiang Hanxuan was like a boy's encounter. "Before they met, they used their own ways to promote guqin culture, and after they met, the two decided to join forces to inherit the peerless sound of the guqin."

There is an allusion to this. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there is a luthier named Yu Boya, Yu Boya is good at playing the strings, once, when Boya came to the north of Mount Tai to visit, he suddenly encountered a torrential rain, had to stay under the rock, his heart was lonely and sad, so he took out the guqin he brought with him and played it.

At first, he played a piano that reflected the continuous rain; Then, he played a landslide-like sound. At this time, the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi went up the mountain to chop wood, and happened to be sheltering from the rain nearby, hearing the sound of this piano, the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi couldn't help but shout behind a nearby bush of wild chrysanthemums: "Good song!" What a song! “

When Yu Boya heard the praise, he quickly got up and made a gesture with Zhong Ziqi, and then continued to play. Boya concentrated on the high mountain, endowed with the tune, Zhong Ziqi nodded frequently after listening to it: "Okay, majestic, this song really looks like a lofty mountain!" “

Boya pondered in the flowing water again, hidden in the melody, Zhong Ziqi listened, and then clapped his hands on the side and said: "Wonderful, mighty, just like the flow of a river!" “

Every time Boya plays a piano song, Zhong Ziqi can fully hear its meaning and taste, which makes Boya very surprised. He put down the piano and sighed, "Good! Good! Your skill in listening, discerning, and clarifying the meaning is so skillful, what you say is exactly what I think in my heart, how can my piano sound escape your ears? “

The two then became bosom friends and agreed to meet again the next year. But who knew that when Boya came to meet Zhong Ziqi in the second year, he learned that Zhong Ziqi had died of illness not long ago. Yu Boya regretted the sadness and was difficult to express in words, so he broke the guqin that he never left and no longer played the strings, in order to thank the rare bosom friend in his life.

As the saying goes, "The mountains and rivers meet the bosom friend, and the clouds chase the moon and know themselves." ”

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