Piano

"Because my mother is pregnant, the old man and my grandfather have rarely restrained their tempers, and the relationship between them has somewhat eased."

As Lan Xuesheng spoke, she lowered her eyebrows slightly: "Later, I heard from my grandfather that those days were almost the time when my father grew up and began to rebel infinitely, and the atmosphere in the family was the most harmonious. There is no one."

"This kind of life lasted for about three years, until when I was two years old, my mother suddenly died of an old illness."

"The old man is a dedicated and long-lasting person." Lan Xuesheng scratched her fingers and sighed sadly, "So my mother's death has dealt a great blow to him."

"After that, he left me with my grandfather, and plunged into his work, desperately improving his guqin production process, desperately expanding his business territory... At the same time, the conflict between him and my grandfather , and finally reached the point of complete irreconcilability."

"Grandpa was already full of dissatisfaction with his great improvement, but seeing that he almost ignored my daughter at all, he naturally became more angry."

"At that time, the two of them would always quarrel when they met, and sometimes my grandfather would use family law - our Lan family's family law is a big wooden stick that is about six feet long and as thick as a child's arm. I don’t know if the remaining piece of wood is real or not, but it really hurts when you hit someone.”

"The time the two of them had the worst fight, my grandfather was so angry with my father that he dragged the law on the spot and killed the old man's company—oh, the 'Empty Valley Remains' at that time was just a little bit bigger, There are three or five branches, and some guqin shops are self-produced and sold——he was locked in the office and beat up severely."

"But even so, the old man still hasn't changed any of his thoughts. My grandfather even said that he would sever the father-son relationship with him, and it was almost published in the newspaper."

"Of course, the newspaper must not have been published in the end," Lan Xuesheng said with a gloomy gaze. "Otherwise, today the old man and I may not be as simple as 'the relationship is deadlocked'."

"However, even though the newspaper was not published, the gap between the two of them was getting bigger and bigger, and the estrangement was getting heavier and heavier. At first, the old man knew to go home for the New Year, but gradually he didn't even want to come back for the New Year. gone."

"Every time grandpa calls him on a whim, he is either in a meeting or on the way to catch a plane to a meeting in other places. I don't know how he, a stinky piano seller, has so many meetings to hold... In short, my grandfather and I live all year round. I can't see him twice."

"Yes, in my memory, there was almost no old man in my childhood."

"What he did the most at that time was to keep asking people to deliver things to the small mountain village where his grandfather lived in seclusion...money, food, clothing, household electrical appliances, all kinds of utensils, decorations, everything on the market Some, good quality things he sent home all at once, but he just didn’t show up.”

"To be honest, Xiao Fengfeng, from a certain point of view, Uncle Liu and I are probably more familiar with him." Lan Xue sneered, "Anyway, Uncle Liu still knows to visit my grandpa from time to time during the holidays, but I But Lao Tzu won’t be home for a few years—”

"These are the issues that have always existed between my grandpa and the old man."

"As for the conflict between me and the old man, it's even more difficult to explain." Lan Xuesheng stretched out her hand to press the center of her eyebrows with a slight headache, "My attitude and thinking have always been quite contradictory."

"I grew up by my grandfather's side since I was a child, and was pulled by my grandfather."

"So, the education I received when I was a child was also the same as my grandfather received in those years—grandpa taught me everything, and I didn't disappoint him. I spared no effort to learn everything he taught me about The 'qin' thing."

"Including the skills of our Lan family's qin, including the various skills of the Yushan School to which the Lan family belongs, including his ideas that we now think are somewhat conservative..."

"It can be said that when I was young, I was basically a replica of my grandfather."

"—Sensitively speaking, I support my grandfather's theory of 'Don't easily tamper with the ancient law'."

"After all, most of the techniques that have survived from ancient times to the present are things that have been experimented by generations or even dozens of generations, and have been summed up after thousands of trials and countless certifications. Although modern technology It is getting more and more developed, but there are still many shortcomings in the end.”

"Most of the steps in the guqin making process cannot be replaced by machines at present. An experienced guqin maker is always better than those cold machines."

"But at the same time, I am a truly modern person. I am not an ancient person. I grew up listening to the principles my grandfather taught me, but I have also studied for more than ten years and accepted more than ten years. modern education."

"I know that from ancient times to the present, among the many factors that hinder the further development of Guqin art, there has always been the word 'price'."

Lan Xuesheng's eyes were clear and clear: "In ancient times, except for the musicians and the prostitutes in the Qinlou Chu Pavilion who could afford to learn the piano, most of them were either rich or from aristocratic families. Children—ordinary people still have problems with food and clothing, so where do they have the extra money and energy to let their children learn to play the piano?"

"Even now, a piece of high-quality wood can cost hundreds or thousands, and a good piano that can be played can easily sell for four or five figures. A Guqin lesson that lasts about an hour is nothing to say. It starts at [-] yuan, and there are hundreds of thousands of courses in big cities—”

"This is not something that ordinary people can learn with just a clap of their hands."

"Yes, my reason tells me that the old man's choice is not wrong."

"The best way to pass on a certain skill and culture is not to keep it strictly guarded in a specific small piece of land, and to enshrine it high on the altar that is out of reach of ordinary people, but to let it popularized."

"Let it step down from the altar, break through the barriers called 'experts' and 'enthusiasts', and let it go into the dust while retaining its proper skills and spirit, so that it can be accepted by more people. -"

"We should make it within reach of ordinary people, a real hobby rather than a tool for showing off and arty. Art should be art that the world can understand, not art that belongs to the small crowd. The wider and bigger the base plate, the more likely it is to create more and more possibilities.”

"It is true that these may not all be good - it may also appear extreme, narrow, and inappropriate." Lan Xuesheng's tone paused, "But it doesn't matter."

"The good and the bad have always been symbiotic - time will always eliminate those that should be eliminated for us, and keep what should be kept."

"New possibilities will bring about new development. The variety of qin art will not make Guqin lonely. On the contrary, it represents that this ancient art still has new vitality."

"Blindly conservative will only lead to self-destruction-this principle is true for families and countries, and it is also true for characters."

In other words, I seem to have learned about four or five hundred and one lessons at the time...?
Anyway, twice a week, it costs [-] a month