Heroines: Opening Dialogue with Wu Zetian

Chapter 21 Hu Jia Eighteen Beats, Inheritor of Intangible Heritage

Su Qingyue waved lightly, and returned to Cai Wenji's boudoir.

"Girl, thank you for your help. I really don't know how to thank you?"

"Senior Cai Zhaoji, you are welcome. The younger generation has heard that the senior is both excellent in poetry and qin. I wonder if I can have the honor to listen to your "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia"."

"of course."

Cai Wenji nodded, took out the guqin, played it slowly, and sang softly.

"At the beginning of my life, I did nothing. After I was born, Han Zuo declined. The inhumanity of the sky brings chaos, and the inhumanity of the earth makes me at this time..."

Su Qingyue knelt on the ground and listened carefully.

……

"What a beautiful piano sound, what a beautiful singing, this is our Chinese music."

"Don't let Goryu become more and more arrogant, Hualiu is the most stingy, I love Huaxia music!"

"Long live Hualiu!"

"This is called ancient style, it's not the kind of music that can touch porcelain..."

"666, I didn't expect there to be a singer among the actors, it's amazing!"

……

National Academy of Music.

"This actor's technique of playing the guqin is also amazing, he can definitely be called a master!"

"This program is too powerful, and the speed of reproduction is simply invincible."

"Oh my god, I suddenly feel that pop music is not good enough, Huaxia music is the best!"

……

Huaxia Academy of Arts.

An old woman with white hair was sitting in front of the computer watching the program "Dialogue with Ancient and Modern", with a very complicated expression on her face.

"Guqin...I didn't expect someone to play Guqin in this program..."

The old woman's name is Zhao Zhen, she is the dean of the Huaxia Art Research Institute, and she is also the inheritor of the Chinese intangible cultural heritage Guqin art.

……

At the end of the song, Su Qingyue shed tears unknowingly.

"Senior Cai! Thank you for your performance. Although I don't know Guqin, I can still be moved by your piano sound and singing. Maybe this is the charm of our Chinese music."

Su Qingyue stood up and said to the audience: "The piano, chess, calligraphy and painting have always been the representatives of our Chinese culture and art."

"Among them, qin ranks at the top of the list of the four arts, because it has greatly improved and influenced the realm of other art categories such as Chinese calligraphy and painting."

"Guqin performance is the oldest instrumental music performance form in our Chinese history, with the highest artistic level, the most national spirit, aesthetic taste and traditional artistic characteristics."

"However, it is a pity that as the pace of life accelerates, people become more and more addicted to fast food music, and Guqin is thus forgotten in a corner and eventually becomes an intangible cultural heritage."

"Thank you for the persistence of these non-heritage inheritors. It is you who keep our Chinese civilization alive!"

……

"That's a good point. These intangible cultural heritage cultures used to be popular culture, but they became endangered with the changes of the times, so they are protected with intangible cultural heritage culture."

"Yes, if possible, I hope that these intangible cultural heritages can become popular again, instead of being put in museums as cultural relics."

"I am a student of music. After watching this program, I finally stopped struggling. The road of folk music may not be easy, but I will definitely stick to it!"

……

Huaxia Academy of Arts.

Dean Zhao Zhen stood up excitedly and kept clapping her hands.

"Okay! Finally there is a program willing to talk about our Chinese Guqin culture!"

……

"Senior Cai Zhaoji, I regret to tell you that Guqin has completely declined in my time."

"You mean, no one plays the guqin anymore?"

"Yes, now it can only be supported by some non-inherited inheritors."

"Inheritance of non-inheritance?"

"To put it simply, they are a group of lone rangers who inherit Chinese civilization. We have some culture and art in China that can be preserved because of these people. Senior Cai, let me take you to meet an inheritor of Guqin intangible heritage."

Su Qingyue gently waved her hand, and time passed.

A young woman in a green military uniform walks into the home with a satchel on her back.

"Father! Mother! I'm admitted to college!"

"Hey, my daughter is promising, have you decided which major to enroll in?"

"I want to apply for Guqin major!"

"Guqin? Can this major make money? Do you want to think about it again?"

The screen turns again.

The woman knelt down in front of an old man in Tang suit.

"Teacher, please accept me, I really love guqin."

"Hey...why are you doing this? You are the only one in this major now. Are you really willing to learn it?"

"No matter how hard or tiring I will never give up, because this is a career I love, and I will spend my whole life fulfilling my promise."

The screen turns again.

I saw a white-haired old woman sitting in front of the computer and watching the screen, and it turned out to be her figure on the screen.

……

"Absolutely! Is this a picture-in-picture? What a creative idea!"

"I know her, she is Director Zhao Zhen of Huaxia Academy of Arts!"

"It's Teacher Zhao Zhen! She plays the guqin very well! Especially "Crouching Dragon Song", it's simply wonderful!"

"Good guy, Mr. Zhao's acting skills are also very good, you see she still pretends to be panicked, it's amazing!"

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Huaxia Academy of Arts.

Dean Zhao Zhen looked at the picture on the screen and turned pale with shock. Just now the host not only showed the picture of her when she was young, but also showed her present in real time.

"Did she install a camera here?"

"Dean Zhao, can you hear me?"

"can."

"Dean Zhao, we all know that you are the inheritor of Huaxia Guqin, do you have anything to say to Senior Cai?"

"What do you have to say?"

Dean Zhao Zhen was very excited, and said quickly: "Senior Cai! Can this junior play a song for you?"

"Of course!"

Dean Zhao Zhen was ecstatic, and quickly took out the guqin and began to play "Crouching Dragon".

"Reading poetry and books with hair tied up, cultivating morality and self-cultivation. Looking up and looking down, keeping a strategy in mind..."

Cai Wenji closed her eyes slightly, listening to the piece played by a guqin player more than 800 years later.

Dean Zhao Zhen was even more excited. She suddenly felt as if she had returned to the examination room when she was young again...

At the end of the song, Cai Wenji nodded.

"Infatuated and intoxicated, wonderful!"

"thanks, thanks!"

Director Zhao Zhen knew that this was just a show, but when she heard this, tears flowed uncontrollably.

……

"Okay, okay, this show is okay, and the intangible inheritor of Guqin is actually asked to play the music for Cai Wenji on the spot!"

"What age is it, are you still listening to traditional music?"

"It seems that I am really ignorant. I have never heard of this Dean Zhao Zhen."

"It's normal if you haven't heard it before. Guqin has become an intangible cultural heritage, which means that not many people pay attention to it. It is destined to enter the museum in the future..."

"Don't talk nonsense! Many young people in China are inheriting intangible cultural heritage. I believe that one day our intangible cultural heritage in China will become popular again, and even go to the world!"

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