He planted peonies in the Tang Dynasty

Chang'an City in the 17th year of Kaiyuan is like a bright pearl that shines in the world, swallowing all the hospitality in the world with the most graceful bearing, no matter poetry and music or wolf ambition, no matter gold, jade, wealth or loneliness.

In this kind of Chang'an, the roads are not picked up, the houses are not closed at night, the streets are full of Nuo dances, and the fireworks are never set off. Every night's curfew brings drunkenness and loss, and every day's dawn is grand and majestic.

At five o'clock, Ruixue was still flying, and a huge crowd gathered in front of the majestic Mingde Gate.A scholar from Hedong with a bamboo basket on his shoulder, a businessman from Anzhou who drives a mule with a whip, a chivalrous knight from western Sichuan, a woman from Suzhou and Hangzhou who married a distant lintel, all kinds of visitors are waiting in throbbing to enter the capital as a sparrow. that moment.

Amidst the noise, a slender boy in a ragged shirt carried a cloth bag on his shoulders, stood on tiptoe and looked into the five closed round arched door openings. Suddenly, a glazed carriage with a fragrant wood roof rushed past him. I didn't see it clearly, like a leaf, it was washed down to the ground by the wave of people.

"Ah Liu, give me a stove to warm up." The curtain of the carriage was lifted, revealing a white and thin face, the young man was wrapped in fox fur, and his voice was as thin as a clear stream, "When will we enter the city?" ?”

Groom Liu's forehead was soaked with sweat, and his mouth was filled with white gas: "Master He Lian, warm up your hands, practice the tune again, I will come all the way to pick you up, if you can be favored by Uncle Cui and stay in Chang'an, Shao Niang is better off in the mansion."

The ground is full of dirt, the dirt is like gold powder and ointment, the ground is full of footprints, and the prints are like the feathers of the phoenix. The boy sitting on the ground listened to the conversation between the master and the servant, stood up again and again, grabbed the A handful of soil from Chang'an.

He was born in Shaozhou in the south of the Lingnan Mountains. He was weak since he was a child. He could lose half his life if he was bitten by a leech in Shimoda. He couldn't read a single word of the book.The strange thing is that his ears are extremely sharp, no matter if there is a tune, he will be able to play exactly the same tune, no matter the Yingge in the teahouse or the yelling in the field.

With this unique skill, and in recent years, teaching workshops in various places have recruited musicians, and his family members said that farming is not as good as practicing art, and it is a way to survive, so they named him Ye Nu in small characters.Ye Nu left home at the age of eight and got a five-stringed wooden instrument named pipa in Shaozhou Jiaofang.He didn't know what to do, he caught what pieces to learn, and spent five or six years in a daze. Fortunately, he was favored by Si Le, and he picked up an opportunity to work as a long-term musician in the Taiyue Department.

When he came back to his senses, the people behind pushed Ye Nu to rush forward, while the people in front were denser, like the wall of a well, blocking him so that he couldn't see anything.Before he could open his mouth to speak, suddenly, he heard a solemn drum beating down from the sky.

"Boom, boom..."

Wave after wave of drums and bells that trembled in the sky and the earth sounded from far to near, arousing staggered turmoil in the quiet morning of early spring according to the established rhythm, drowning people's sighs.Mingde's left and right doors opened slowly, Ye Nu squinted his eyes, and saw the rising sun carved a thin red line in the dark sea of ​​people through the narrow door.

The tide surged again, Ye Nu lifted up his sleeves, and handed over the public inspection in his hand to the gatekeeper. After a fierce battle, he stumbled and finally broke into the crowded face before he could step into the door. the city gate.

In front of you, there is a straight Zhuquemen Avenue leading to the sky, and the countless Lifangs, high pavilions, towers, pagodas, flowing water, and flower forests in the whole city are all shrouded in a cloud of purple fireworks, and they are spinning and disappearing. float.

Along the way, the yells of mutton soup from the shop, the puffing of beard cakes in the oven at the stall, the yelling of men and women going out to get work, the noise of children running in the neighborhood, the footsteps of parading guards in haechi armor, the hangover wanderers The poetry and music chanted in the mouth, accompanied by the sound of bells and drums, lingers endlessly.

Ye Nu had never been to Chang'an, he didn't recognize anyone, and he didn't know the way. He only remembered that Shaozhou told him to enter Mingde Gate and walk ten miles straight. , is the Suzaku gate of the imperial city.

At that time, the sky had not yet fully dawned, and a row after row of officials wearing official uniforms and wearing Jinxian crowns was divided into two groups. Under the guidance of the attendants who held the lamps, they checked the fish charms and identities with Chengmen Lang one by one in an orderly manner. Book and enter.

Ye Nu stood in front of the door, thinking about how to get in, and when he turned around, he saw that the fragrant wood-roofed glazed carriage that knocked him down just now also stopped here.In the snowstorm, He Lian held the golden stove in his hand and remained motionless, while several servants followed beside him with boxes on their shoulders.Ah Liu walked to the door, took out a heavy-looking red silk bag and stuffed it into the doorman's arms: "Tai Le Department invites entertainers, but the child is still young, let us give it away."

The gatekeepers blocked it out of the way.A Liudao: "Hey, you..." The gatekeeper turned his face away, and suddenly shouted: "What are you doing?!" Ye Nu knew that he was calling himself, and stepped forward in three steps at a time: "The public inspection It was opened by Shaozhou Jiaofang, this jade bracelet... the jade bracelet is fake, so just hand it over, thank you official for your forgiveness."

The gatekeeper accepted it, grinned, and patted Ah Liu's shoulder with his palm: "See? This child will be more promising than your Young Master Jiao in the future." Turning his head, he said to Ye Nu: "Come in, Tai Le It is located in Taichang Temple, in the first square on the right, the order is Li Shengping, and the prime minister is Cui Li." Ye Nu thanked him again and again.

Ye Nu didn't know how deep the music was, how big Chang'an was, or where the imperial city was. He approached the Taile Department listening to the loud drumming, and no one greeted him. The bell is swaying.

Ye Nu sat down and waited, and soon heard footsteps, it turned out that He Lian also came in from outside the imperial city, just like him, alone, with a burden on his back, no golden stove in his hand, and no servants around him.

At this time, a pointed-faced man in a stone blue round-neck robe passed by, looking left and right.Ye Nu stood up and smiled jerkyly: "Cui Cheng, Uncle Cui, here we come." Cui Li frowned: "Who are you?" Ye Nu pointed to the side and said: "He is He Lian, I Came with him."

"Who came with you? I don't even know you." He Lian frowned his delicate eyebrows, patted the pure white fox fur on his body, and stood away in disgust, "A farmer, his body is so dirty."

Cui Li smiled and said to He Lian: "Come on, go see Lord Li with Uncle Uncle, he is in charge of Uncle Cui and dozens of music workers, thousands of musicians, don't talk nonsense for a while." Ye Nu frowned. With chapped lips, shamelessly followed.

The main hall of the Taile Department is a six-room house with a single eaves and a hilltop. The two ends of the main ridge are carved with phoenixes and phoenixes.In the courtyard under the ridge, there is an altar of six-legged golden lotus incense burner.

After a while, Ye Nu stood beside Cui Li and He Lian, listening to the sound of jade and stone echoing from low to high in the hall.He raised his face secretly, and saw barb-shaped stones of different sizes carved with cloud patterns all over the wall in front of him.

Tai Le ordered Li Shengping to stand behind the chime stand, in exactly the same attire as Cui Li.With a wooden mallet and a file in his hand, he knocked on the surface of the chime with varying degrees of intensity. Every time he heard a sound, he spent a quarter of an hour sharpening the edges and corners.

"Cui Cheng, you are really embarrassing someone like this." Li Shengping raised his face and glanced at it after finishing the final tone, and said calmly, "Tai Le Department is different from Jiao Fang after all, this time we recruited eight hundred long-servants. Wei Siqing is watching closely."

Cui Li bowed his waist and said with an apologetic smile: "Shengping, my nephew is very talented, he can recognize the mode at the age of three..." Li Shengping said: "I know that the He family is engaged in the business of Tianzhu spices and opened Liuxian in Dongshi. Don, he is a wild child."

Afterwards, a few small officials came in small steps and put out several pipas of different shapes.He Lian picked up the four strings, sat firmly on the felt, first played the key, and then played a melody of Huang Zhonggong, which was the famous song "Yu Meiren" by Wuyin.

Ye Nu had neither studied music theory in an orthodox manner, nor had he ever seen such an exquisite musical instrument, so he didn't dare to talk too much. When it was his turn, he just picked up the five strings and played a song that was widely circulated among the people in Shaozhou, but it was not well-known. ditty.

Li Shengping said: "Although it is not well-known, it still sounds good, which Si Yue taught it?" Ye Nu said: "I have heard it, and I learned it myself." Li Shengping put down the file and paused: "Ping Sheng Yu tune The first Yunzhong Lu tune is the most mellow and beautiful tune among the 28 four-tone tunes, which is what you played just now, remember, don’t make mistakes again.”

Ye Nu's pair of thick eyelashes fluttered lightly.When the red incense in the hall was burned out, Li Shengping put down the file and walked away with his sleeves thrown.Cui Lidao: "Shengping, this child..." Li Shengping said: "This is not an example."

Immediately, Cui Li slapped his thigh: "Uncle, just say it can be done!" He Lian finally understood and heaved a sigh of relief.Ye Nu smiled, stretched out his hand to pull Cui Li's sleeve, very affectionately: "Thank you Uncle Cui, from now on I..."

But things in the world are like this, Cui Li first asked a few officials to pick up He Lian with a smile on his face, when he turned around, his expression changed, and the haze shrouded in an instant, and he pinched Ye Nu's shoulder with an iron hand.Ye Nu only felt that his collarbone was about to be twisted out, and tears could not be restrained in his eyes, "Uncle Cui, it hurts, you hurt me..."

"Don't cry, don't you know how to pester people? You have a good uncle." Cui Li grinned, pushed Ye Nu out, and said with an evil smile, "Poor little boy, hurry up and go to the Spring Garden Write a deed."

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Thank you for your company, I hope that in the new year, I can write this romantic story leisurely. Happy New Year, little fairies!

This article is a story of growth and experience in the prosperous Tang Dynasty from Kaiyuan to Tianbao. The two protagonists endured hardships and became masters. The prototypes were a group of Taichang Temple musicians and a poor family at that time. The main line and social scene.

There are three main parts of the Siyue institution in Chang’an City. One is the Jiaofang, which is the inner Jiaofang set up next to the Penglai Palace in the second year of Kaiyuan, and the left and right Jiaofang outside the palace. Tang Cui Lingqin’s "Jiaofang Ji": "The right side is good at singing, the left side is multi-tasking and dancing, and Gai Xiang becomes a habit because of it."

The second is the Taichang Temple that Su An entered here. There are two main institutions directly related to music: one is the Taiyue Department and the other is the Advocacy Department. Both are responsible for the creation and performance of court music, the cultivation and management of musicians, etc. , from the early Tang Dynasty to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, male musicians were the main performers.

The third is the place where Su An will go in the future, Liyuan.The emperors of the Tang Dynasty routinely held banquets in the palace every season to treat courtiers, and used them to show the emperor and ministers to have fun together. Different seasons chose different locations. The pear orchard was a place for banquets in spring, so it was originally an orchard. Under the construction, it has become a holy place for music, and it will be introduced in detail, with extremely rich content.

The five-stringed pipa is a very distinctive pipa in the Tang Dynasty, but it has been lost in most areas today.

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