The Wizard of Medicine

Chapter 230: The Cranes and the Clear Sky, Music, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting

Yan Zixiu said calmly: "The quality of this piano is very high, the workmanship is exquisite, the outline, the lines are square and round, and the rules contain simplicity. It can't be done."

Mr. Huang Lao and the other two honored guests nodded in approval.

Yan Zixiu asked: "In the Ming Dynasty, there was a qin master named Huang Wenhao?"

Mr. Huang shook his head.The Ming Dynasty is not far from now, and there are records of some well-known masters of qin, but there is indeed no one named Huang Wenhao.

Gu Yingzhi put forward another reason: "Doctor Yan explained that there was no such thing as Huang Wenhao's qin master in the past, so how could future generations be able to write the characters in the belly of the qin?"

Yan Zixiu was confident: "Everyone, please look at the edge of this piano. There is a clear difference between the paint color and the quality of the carcass and the surface and bottom of the piano. what?"

Professor Wu Wan said: "It means that this violin has been rebuilt after being disemboweled. This inscription should be written on it by the owner of the violin in the Ming Dynasty when he was rebuilt."

All of a sudden, there was a sensation in the audience, and there was warm applause.

Everyone not only admired Yan Zixiu's knowledge, but also his determination and calmness.

Mr. Huang said: "Ms. Gu got Zhang Songqin at the price of Mingqin. Congratulations."

Gu Yingzhi's face showed joy: "Thank you, Dr. Yan, and Mr. Huang."

Cai Gaoyang asked Gu Yingzhi: "Sister Gu, are you willing to transfer this Qin?"

Gu Yingzhi smiled: "I just got it, and I want to appreciate it for a while."

Cai Gaoyang looked at Yan Zixiu and shrugged helplessly.

Yan Zixiu smiled, which meant he was not in a hurry.What he thought in his heart was that if he really couldn't buy a famous piano handed down from generation to generation, it would be okay to buy a contemporary Yaoqin of decent quality.

But Cai Gaoyang really wanted to make this happen so that he could express his feelings.

Mr. Huang said with a smile: "Mr. Cai, I have a proposal. Add another chair, and invite brother Yan to sit at the guest of honor. What do you think?"

"Doctor Yan has a profound knowledge of guqin identification. I strongly agree with Mr. Huang's proposal." Cai Gaoyang said loudly.

Everyone applauded and applauded, Boss Lin's voice was the loudest.With Yan Zixiu's strength, he is fully qualified to be the guest of honor.

There are many servants in the Cai family, and the arrangement was quickly made.As a latecomer, Yan Zixiu took a seat on the left side of President Wu Wan.

Cai Gaoyang stepped onto the podium: "The second event, piano appreciation. It will still be presided over by Mr. Huang Lao."

Mr. Huang beckoned, and the servants carried another piano case.

Since this time it is not an identification but an appreciation, the guqin was taken out and placed on the piano table.

Mr. Huang stepped forward to introduce:
"Friends in the field of guqin connoisseurs all know that the social and economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty promoted the popularization and development of painting techniques. The Guqin in the Song Dynasty can best reflect the characteristics of the times is the one-color lacquer qin. One-color lacquer qin, as the name suggests, refers to the whole body and one color lacquer qin And sometimes the same guqin has different colors on the outside and inside, but it is actually the result of the lacquer color fading over time. Contained, its color is warm and moist, showing an inner and reserved beauty."

"Please look at this, everyone. This is a Song Qin in my collection. This Qin is a Zhongni-style Qin, with a broken snake's belly and a wide flat surface. It is 127 centimeters long, with three emblems on its shoulders and 21.5 centimeters wide. It is 15.5 centimeters wide. Its size is larger than that of the handed down Tangqin, and it belongs to the long and wide work that is not based on ancient times."

Yan Zixiu knew that Song Qin was indeed dominated by the Zhongni style.Looking closely at this piano, we can see that it is simple and concise, neat and standardized, simple and practical, and has a spiritual charm beyond the shape.

Someone below asked: "Mr. Huang, what is the name of this piano?"

"The name of this piano is Heju Qingxiao."

The quiet Professor Wu Wan recited loudly: "The night is quiet and cloudless and the moon is like silver, and the cranes in the clear sky hurt the spirit. Ziqi's jade bones are colder than snow, how many soulmates can there be in this world?"

Mr. Huang clapped his hands and praised: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Mr. Bai Yuchan's poems are most suitable for this scene."

Guqin was originally the wizard's qin, and later evolved into two schools, the literati's qin and the artist's qin.Just like the "Book of Changes", it evolved into the Xiude School and the Shushu School.The literati's qin focuses on cultivating virtue with the qin, while the artist's qin focuses on touching people's hearts and feeling foreign things.

Yan Zixiu thought to himself, judging from the poems recited by Professor Wu, it was obviously from the literati school of piano.

President Ding in a suit and leather shoes hasn't spoken yet, so he doesn't know which faction he belongs to.

Mr. Huang said: "The following guests are invited to watch in order."

The audience in the audience got up one by one, and under the guidance of the servants, they lined up to watch the famous qin and the crane is singing.

Circumstances affect people, and on such occasions, no one is impatient, no one urges.

Mr. Huang Lao popularized relevant knowledge for everyone during the viewing process:

"The Song Dynasty was the golden age of cultural development in Chinese history. The rulers' respect for Guqin culture and tolerance for scholars was unprecedented, which also brought prosperity to the development of Qin music, and once entered the heyday of Qin music development.

"Song Guangxian Sun Guangxian's "Beimeng Suoyan" Volume [-] records: "Tang Gaoce, a native of Pengzhou. Intelligent and knowledgeable, literary and Han vertical and horizontal, as for astronomy and calendar, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, flute and huqin, leading the Liang dynasty and Zhu Yi." It appeared for the first time The theory of 'qin, chess, calligraphy and painting'."

Someone in the audience murmured: "It turns out that the saying about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting came from here."

Mr. Huang nodded and smiled: "That's right. Due to the suppression of martial arts in the Song Dynasty and the extreme respect for culture by the rulers, during the two Song Dynasties, from the emperors to the government and the public, there were no bad pianos, and all of them were proud of being able to play the piano. The peak of Song Huizong himself is very good at the piano, and there is a masterpiece "Listening to the Qin" that has been handed down to the world.

"The four arts of qin, chess, calligraphy and painting in the Song Dynasty infiltrated and developed with each other. The literati not only studied a subset of classics and history, but also a collection of literati's artistic life and artistic life."

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After about an hour, everyone finished watching.

Cai Gaoyang asked: "Mr. Huang, are you willing to sell this Qin?"

Mr. Huang smiled and shook his head: "I won't sell ten thousand taels of gold."

Young Master Cai looked more and more disappointed.He thought to himself, could it be that today's event was held in vain?This is a little sorry for Brother Yan.

Disappointment is disappointment, he has to continue to go down the process: "The third activity, guqin exchange. Professor Wu and President Ding will play a song for everyone."

The gentle and quiet Professor Wu Wan came forward and said to Mr. Huang: "Please use the piano." It means that she wants to use the crane in front of her to clear the sky.

Mr. Huang stretched out his right hand with a smile on his face.

A servant had already set up a stool behind the piano table.

After sitting down, Professor Wu adjusted the tune and stroked the song "Flowing Water".

This famous song was played by Yan Zixiu at Shandiluo Mountain in the Dancao Peak of Shenxiao Gate in the Immortal Cultivation Realm.

This song expresses the meaning of aspiring to the flowing water and the wise man enjoying the water, including looking for a bosom friend with the sound of the piano, and conveying the true meaning of true love and friendship in the world.

Professor Wu has a lot of experience in playing this song, allowing the audience to vaguely see the clouds and mist among the mountains, and then seem to see the gurgling stream, and then the melody is as light as a song, like flowing clouds and water.With Professor Wu's continuous "rolling and flicking" techniques, the turbulent sound of the piano makes people feel like sitting alone on a dangerous boat passing through the Wu Gorge, with surging waves and roaring dragons.At the time of thrilling and dizzying, then the light boat has passed the rapids, and I can only see the artistic conception of swimming in Pinghu.

When the audience heard this song in the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong Island, they forgot all the complexity and temptations, pressure and helplessness of the world for a while, and felt the peaceful and natural state of self-cultivation.

At the end of the song, warm applause rang out.

(End of this chapter)