He planted peonies in the Tang Dynasty

The screens are closed, the windows are open, and the silk cloth embroidered with bamboo leaves casts double shadows between the bamboo mats.With such a decoration, the hustle and bustle of the hall is blocked, and the passers-by in the market can see this Guangling feast when they raise their heads.

Afterwards, the two disciples stepped forward and quietly sat beside Lou Junyan.The male student is named Ruan. The instrument he holds upright has a body as big as a disc, with a slender neck and four strings. There are round sound holes on the left and right sides of the panel. That musical instrument, with two strings, is shaped like a loquat, with beautiful lines and a gentle and peaceful expression.

"Su worships, Zhuxi admonishes: male disciples pass on Ruan Xian; female disciples pass on Liuqin; the first seven, give five strings."

He passed on Ruan Xian to commemorate Ruan Zhongrong, the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, who was regarded by Emperor Wu of Jin as a wine-drinking, vain, life-long unsuccessful man because of his mastery of the octave. Mother's piano.

In order to test Su An, the first barrier Lou Junyan set up was to ask two disciples Ruan and Liu to play an ancient song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" together. What is the mechanism behind it.

How dare Su An show off?He didn't say a word in the superficial words, but only cut in from the tone, and told the most common truth.

"Lord Lou Zuo, Ruan has a wide range of voice, thick timbre, full overtones, and a man's heart; Liuqin's high pitch, combined with highly skilled passages, and gorgeous movements, more and more bring out the gracefulness of women. In this way, it is comparable to the combination of Qin and Se."

Lou Jun rolled up his sleeves, and next to him, the waiter continued to fill up the spring wine for the three of them.Lou Junyan smiled slightly and drank it all in one gulp.

The first barrier was easily solved.

Lou Junyan said: "Su worshiped and played the Chen family's "Spring River" to persuade peace." Su An said: "Yes." Lou Junyan said: "This is Su's intention to worship himself, or is it the intention of the governor Yang? life?" Su An said: "Yes..."

Gu Yue said: "Master Lou, Su Gongfeng said just now that he just arrived and lived in Guangling Tower. He has never met Yang Inspector, so Gu can vouch for it." Both stopped their hands and stopped the tune.

Lou Junyan said: "It is said that the theory of music is connected with the principles of the world. The reason why a certain person does not want to play the Chen family's "Spring River" is not because he cannot tolerate Chen Taoer's flute sound, nor is it because he has any enmity with him, but two things. Something is really difficult to solve.”

Su An said: "Please tell the owner of the building clearly."

Two more barriers were placed in front of Su An impressively. They were much heavier than the first one, and they were named Cheng and Xin.

Half a year ago, brothers and sisters Ruan and Liu were invited by the old governor of Jiangzhou to pass on their music to the state capital, but they didn't realize it was a Hongmen banquet until they arrived. After that, Chen Taoer took advantage of the Yimen in Jiangzhou and included all the repertoire written by Lou Junyan under his own faction, not only changing the main tune from five strings to flute pipe, but also robbing him of the composer's reputation .

Therefore, Lou Junyan thought that since this Yimen's Chen Tao'er had lost her integrity, it was not worth the effort of others to persuade them to make peace.He has made up his mind, the music theory is the same as the world's theory, because Zhangjiang, Chen family, Yang family and many other relationships are involved, he decided to lead his disciples to win against Chen Tao'er at the Lantern Festival to show his righteousness.

Su An thought for a while, and said: "So, it is true that there is no sincerity and no credit. I didn't know it beforehand, so I'm taking the liberty. But, I dare to ask the owner of the building, is it Chen Taoer or Chen Taoer's flute that you want to win?" Mr. Lou Yan said: "Why do you complain and worry about the flute? Someone wants to kill him." Su An said: "Then, why not use his flute to kill himself?"

Lou Junyan bowed his body and said, "What do you mean?" Su An picked up the Miaoyun pipa, bowed to Ruan and Liu, and said, "That's a long story, and it's what I feel can impress the lord. Please listen carefully."

Although Su An is an outsider, he has experienced too many similar disputes in Chang'an. A piece of music was handed down hundreds of times, and was fought back and forth by many families. sing as a result.

If you really want to get to the bottom of the matter and tell the difference, then, in the eyes of ordinary spectators, you play your flute and I play my pipa, it can only be a tie. How can they distinguish the length of individual notes? Who will come first?

"However, even old people and children understand that a gentleman is not a good player." Su An said, "If someone is good at playing the flute and can control the silk strings, he can not only weave the other party's playing method into his own music, but also create new ideas. If so, the judgment shall be judged."

Lou Junyan said: "Su Gongfeng, you are deceiving someone." After saying this, Su An had adjusted the chair and sat upright.Lou Jun took a sip of his wine, turned his face slightly, and looked at the crowd of spectators gathered under the window.

Gu Yue looked at the desperate Su An, and smiled and shouted: "Miss Xu!" Xu Xiangyi's shadow reflected on the screen flickered slightly: "What are you shouting, what are you shouting?" Gu Yue said: "Madam Xu, please worship Su! Leakage."

Su An cleared his throat, and asked Ruan and Liu, "Have you ever studied "Neon Clothes" and "Liu Yao?" They replied, "Master taught me."

Su An said: "Okay, when I first came to Yangzhou, I have never heard these two pieces of music. You play the prologue first, so that I can get familiar with it. When the prologue is played, I will join you. Rhythm."

Water dripped at night, and the sound of business sounded again.

Su An never thought that the phoenix in his song would fly back to the charming and charming south this evening.

For the preface, he recalled Nanbutan's Lunzhi, and changed the playing method according to his own understanding. At the beginning, each note gradually progressed evenly, like the morning dawn on the Mengmeng River, coming silently.

After a while, his fingers moved faster and faster, so that they were indistinguishable, but each sound was clearly distinguishable, mellow, without the slightest deviation.

Breaking through, the three organs bloom together, he has a source of success in both directions, and in the eyes of people with good luck, the air changes rapidly. Sometimes he sings the gentleness of Guazhou with Ruan Xian, and sometimes he dances with Liuqin in Yangzijin...

At that time, the sensation that Nan Bujue caused in Pingkang was exactly the same, and it happened again in Kaimingqiao City on Jinxi.

The officials who planted piles by the river, the servants who weaved hemp rope, and the painters who made paper lanterns all stood on tiptoe to visit, their faces flushed.

"This person has a phoenix beneath his strings."

Su An recalled Lin Zhenzhen's suggestion for the ending when he first edited "Meeting Happiness", so he bit off the pick of his thumb in an instant and used it as a lever pick. With the other hand, he hooked the middle string Produce a distant overtone that fades away.

It was said to be impromptu, but it was still not out of control. When the last drop of Yelou sprinkled on the lacquer plate, the sound just stopped completely.

It is unbelievable to the connoisseurs that after the two songs, the main tune of Ruan and Liu was not suppressed by Su An's joining, on the contrary, like a hibiscus flower washed in a clear spring, after the water comes out, it is more radiant and more extraordinary.

"Lord Lou Zuo, this is also the basis for me to open a music workshop in Yangzhou. The art of drawing music is actually very simple. There are two essentials. One is to simplify the complexity. , but blending and merging, trying to make a single chord sound, relying on different playing methods, to show multiple functions. Different, turn old songs into new ones.”

After hearing these words, the person who reacted first was not Lou Junyan, but Gu Yue.Lou Junyan said: "Gu Inspector, why are you sighing?" Gu Yue said: "If you have a bosom friend in life, wouldn't it be beautiful, wouldn't it be raining after a long drought?"

Su An smiled: "Master Lou, please ignore him, he..." Lou Junyan said: "I promise you." Su An's eyes lit up.Lou Junyan respected the young with his elders, drank the third glass of wine, and got up together, Ruan and Liu followed suit.

"Chen Tao'er is like this, not all Yimen musicians are like this. I promise you that Nanbushi will play Chen's "Spring River Flower and Moonlight Night" at the Lantern Festival, and use this method to add the melody of the flute part they composed. Play together."

Su An breathed a sigh of relief.In this way, the two barriers finally opened a feasible gap because of their own intervention.

"Lord Lou Zuo, Gao Yi, now that the negotiation has been completed, tomorrow, I will ask you not to think about practicing "Chun Jiang" and see you alone."

This Guangling Tower Concert was later spread for nearly a hundred years in Yangzhou, a city full of splendid poems and beauties.

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On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, a notice of five feet was posted on the gate tower of Yangzhou Zicheng.Although everyone knows that the Shangyuan Festival, which lasts for three days, will be in the near future, and the common people have already made powdered fruits and coke circles, and painted lanterns, but when this announcement symbolizing absolute authority was first unveiled, it was still It caused the carnival throbbing of tens of thousands of living beings in the whole city.

The plan of the year is spring.

Governor Yang, Zhang Biejia and other officials worked diligently and made preparations as follows: on the [-]th day, dragon lanterns greeted the God of the Land, and [-] lanterns were connected in series to form the body of a dragon. During the daytime, sacrifices are held in the northern suburbs, and reeds are burned as torches in the corner of the field to illuminate the wealth of the fields, predict droughts and floods, and wish for a good harvest of rice and silkworms this year.

Of course, apart from the things done by these elders, what the children care about is not the daytime, but the upcoming lantern festival.

The lanterns can be hung the day before. At the same time, there will be a "hook" show near the Kaiming Bridge. East and West, there will be a hundred strong men selected in the workshops, and they will pull the ropes left and right to pull the hooks under the bridge. Flowing water wins.

It will not be until the night of the [-]th day that the lantern festival will begin. At each bridgehead on each Guanhe River, there will be a pavilion with the magic lamp of Zigu hanging on it. It will be set up by the government and record all the lantern riddles in this area. The questioner and the answer.

According to the rules, after the men, women and children visiting the Lantern Festival pick up the riddles, they will check with the booth officials, and if they guess right or are guessed right, they can get Tongbao coins with special symbols.Of course, the battle between Lou Junyan and Chen Taoer is still one of the most watched events.

"You are all optimistic, learn well, how Yangzhou will hold the Shangyuan Lantern Festival, and we in Jiangzhou can do the same in the future."

"Don't be afraid of people laughing at us as a toddler in Handan. Land tax, salt tax, copper and iron, government utensils, these can't be moved, but I didn't say that the name of 'leading hook' can't be moved. According to me, this play will be in Jiangzhou in the future, eh, It's called 'tug of war'."

On the early morning of the twelfth day, several black gauze hats rushed to Guangling Tower from Jiangzhou on horseback, waiting in the front hall.

Seeing that Su An was teaching Nan Bu upstairs, and the children who wanted to write riddles were not taken with them, so Gu Yue volunteered to teach them how to write, but he didn't expect that he asked Li Bin to ask Chen Yun about it. A few words, so fast.

Before he arrived, Chang Shi and Sima both asked for the crime of dereliction of duty. As the governor, although he was tolerant and understanding, he hadn't figured out how to reply to his subordinates, and finally decided to start the training from the festival ceremony he was familiar with, to prevaricate people gone.

When Gu Yue returned to the courtyard behind the building, he didn't see Gu'er and Ami, only Amin and Alan brothers and sisters were writing on the millstone.

"Gu Lang, this is a riddle we wrote." "Where are those two people?" "They... are going to help Mrs. Xu make bean curd." "Do they help make bean curd, or steal bean cake?" Cake...ah no, eating bean curd..."

Gu Yue's gaze fell on A Ming's hand holding the pen holder, that finger was wrapped in white gauze, with faint bloodstains oozing out.Fortunately, Alan is not yet old enough to practice fingering, and his finger bones are still healthy, and he is folding a delicate, palm-sized lotus.

"Gu Lang, am I not good at writing?" A Ming handed over the paper and retracted Dong's hands into his sleeves, "Guess?"

Hanami:?

Gu Yue came back to his senses, smiled and said: "The painting is quite similar, but this is considered cheating, and the pavilion officials will not recognize it." Alan's eyes lit up, and he put the little lotus up on his feet: "Gu Lang, you Look at this again, I wrote the riddle of the moon."

Moon Mystery: Hours are like bows, and times are like pans

Gu Yue said: "Hey, Alan is so smart, it seems that I can't write the mystery of the moon, I should let you write it." Alan's face was flushed.Amin was also very happy, and hugged his sister: "Why are you better than me?"

Gu Yue picked up the pen from the millstone, and lightly formed a ring shape with two fingers: "Amin, come here, and see how I hold the pen. You must not hold the pen with your whole fist like you did just now." Amin put his arms on the edge of the plate , looking at Gu Yue with his chin resting.

Hanana:

Sit and watch Fen Dai not know how far away,

There are no people in the two counties of Tanma.

After writing the last sentence, Gu Yue dipped his ink, and while demonstrating, he asked: "Amin, did Master say that how did you spend the night of Shangyuan?" Amin said: "Go to the Lantern Festival, Master please allow me The lady bought masks and tiger down for us." Gu Yue said: "Then what about after visiting the Lantern Festival?" Amin pursed his lips: "I don't know."

Gu Yue leaned in front of him and raised his eyebrows: "I'll give you a task, okay? I was looking for Gu'er and Ami. They are playful, so there is no chance." Amin immediately jumped up and stood up. Straightforward: "Good!"

The three of them enjoyed themselves and were obsessed with discussing lantern riddles, but they didn't hear the flute and five strings upstairs had stopped.

When Su An went downstairs, he saw a few clerks around Gu Yue coming and going, carrying boxes covered with thatch.

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