The flute has long been endowed with the meaning of "culture" in the concept of the ancient people in China. The flute culture has an in-depth study of the multilateral cultural and social phenomena caused by the flute and the art of flute, with an intriguing brilliance.
According to the most common and established appellation of folk and professional in modern China, the flute-like instruments are collectively called flute. Among these flute instruments, there are flutes whose blowholes are close to the closed end of the instrument, flutes whose blowholes are close to the closed end of the instrument, but whose blowhole plane intersects with the finger hole plane at an angle of approximately 9 degrees, and flutes with blowholes in the middle. The performance and application of flute occupies an obvious position in the amateur cultural life of national and folk art performance groups and the public. China's flute has formed its inherent characteristics in the long-term historical and cultural background of China, and has become an integral part of China culture with the distinctive characteristics of China flute culture. In the actual music sound of modern folk flute music, we can further understand the unique role played by flute in expressing musical ideas, reflecting real life and realizing its social functions. The popular folk flute music "The Small Door in the South of Hebei" is played with smooth melody and distinctive glide, showing a kind of unrestrained and lively mood among the people. The folk flute duet "Talk Back", which is popular in central Hebei, makes full use of the skills of flute playing such as sliding, pause, calendar and vibrato, and depicts the funny scene of talking back in real folk life vividly. Oriole Bright Wings, an adaptation of the original Shanxi Bangzi tune excavated by Mr. Feng Zicun, shows the beautiful things around Oriole and Oriole, and the music is cheerful and smooth, beautiful and vast. "Hanging a Red Light" shows a fiery festive scene in the countryside through a passionate melody.
The flute is one of the most artistically expressive national musical instruments in China. Besides the above solo forms of flute, it is also widely used in various kinds of instrumental music among the people. In the traditional "Jiangnan Sizhu", "Guangdong Music", "Fujian Nanyin", "Shifan Drum", "Shifan Drum", "Chaozhou Big Drum", "Xi 'an Drum Music", "Hebei Blowing Song" and other wind music in northern China, the flute is an important melodic instrument. Because of its bright and unique tone, strong penetration and its flexible adaptability, it is made. Flute also plays a very important artistic expression function in the accompaniment of other folk songs and dances, Peking Opera and other local operas and rap music.
In the bands of modern professional performing arts groups, flute is an important high-pitched wind instrument of national bands or mixed orchestras. Many famous national orchestral music such as Yao Dance Music. In the Northern Shaanxi Suite, Spring Festival Overture, Moonlit Night on the Spring River, and Dance of the Golden Snake, the artistic expression of flute performance has become an irreplaceable part of the whole music.
Because of its broad mass base, solid historical and folk foundation, and the promotion of modern media and professional performance groups, flute performance has become an important form of music performance in social music life. In recent decades, composers and flute players in China have adapted and created a large number of excellent flute solos on the premise of fully absorbing the nourishment of folk music. For example, Oriole Bright Wings (Feng Zicun), Happy Meeting (Feng Zicun), 357 (Zhao Songting), Partridge Flying (Lu Chunling), Jasmine Flower (Liu Guanle), Xiaobalu Braving the Blockade (Chen Dake), tatar Dance (Li Chongwang), etc.
In the art of music, it is also an artistic space for musicians to dabble in expressing the flute and expressing the interest, activities and psychological environment of people associated with the flute with musical works. A famous example is He Lvting's piano solo "The Shepherd Boy Piccolo". This song successfully combines the running technique of China melody with the writing technique of western polyphony music, showing the folk customs of shepherd boy and shepherd flute and the warm rural scenery of China. In the flowing pentatonic melody full of national charm. We seem to have been bathed in warm sunshine and heard the moving sound of folk flutes. Musicians are using the artistic expression of piano, describing flute and singing flute. Since 199s, young and middle-aged musicians have also created music works with flute as the theme. The music is based on Tajik folk music in western China, combined with a complex trilogy framework, fluent piano texture and heavy string background, inspired by flute, and associated with flute, which is like asking questions to heaven and calmly introspecting on the sad road of life. Based on the artistic value of flute, flute has become one of the important themes of literary and artistic creation by literary artists in past dynasties.
Poets often write poems based on their feelings and feelings after hearing the flute. For example,
Li Bai's "Listen to the Hu people play the flute": "Hu people play Yu Di, half of which is the Qin sound. In October, Wu Shanxiao, plum blossoms fall into the pavilion. The poet first described his style judgment of flute music, and then expressed people's feelings after listening to it.
Liu Changqing's "Listening to the Flute Song": "The old wanderers have pity on me, carrying wine and sand to see off the relocated guests. The end of the world is full of moonshine, so who can play the flute again on the river? The flute can make lonely guests worry, and the green wave is as light as no flow. The sound of business is bright and the sound of feathers is bitter, and Jiang Tian is silent and calendar Jiang Fengqiu. Listen to the sound of Guanshan, and Sanxiang cries in the moonlight. It also blows the willow tree to excite the numerous sounds, and the spring scenery of thousands of miles hurts people's hearts Where does it fall with the wind? Only the winding lake is deep. After Mingfa left you, he immediately went white. " This sad seven-character poem is a true expression of the poet's sad feelings.
Li Yi's on hearing a flute at night from the wall of shouxiang: "People miss everything at night, and the flute sounds more sad. The sad man didn't want to listen, so he came to the pillow. The wind is blocking the clouds, and the moon opens at night. Plain and lonely. Fall into a plum blossom. " Li Yi's "Smelling the flute on a Spring Night" also has the sentence "Chushan plays the flute to call for the spring return, and the guests are moved to look at each other with tears". Poetry still shows the feelings of sadness caused by the flute.
In Du Fu's Autumn Flute, there is a sentence: "Qing merchants want to play as much as they can, but their clothes are stained with bitter blood"; Du Fu's other "Blowing the flute" has the sentence "Blowing the flute in autumn is clear, and whoever makes a heartbroken sound skillfully".
In China's ancient Song Ci, the flute was often used as a scene description to decorate the works of ci writers.
Pan Lang's "Jiuquan Zi": "Changyi West Lake looks up from the balcony every day. Fishing boats in twos and threes, the island is clear in autumn. The flute sounded in the reeds, and Bai Niao started to walk. Don't come to idle the fishing rod, thinking about people's water and clouds. " This poem is full of poetry and painting, and the flute plays the role of finishing touch.
In Su Shi's Mid-Autumn Festival, the author uses a flute to strengthen his feelings of spiritual liberation and broad-mindedness: "If you want to ride the wind, you can't ride Peng Wing. In the crystal palace, the flute was blown off with a sound. " The flute in the word has no trace of sadness.
Nian Nu Jiao by Huang Tingjian was written when he moved to Rongzhou (now Yibin, Sichuan) in southwest China. In this magnificent poem, he also wrote a flute: "I was born in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River, and I loved the bagpipes. Sun Lang smiled and sat down to spray frosted bamboo." The author describes his guest, Sun Yanli, playing flute with him to help the drinker get drunk. There is no sentimentality at all.
Liao Shimei's "Good Things Near" also shows a beautiful scenery picture. The appearance of the flute makes you feel more elegant and profound in artistic conception: "The sunset melts into gold, and the sky is pale and the smoke is bright. Whose tea is upstairs? It's too weak to rely on it. Mandarin ducks bathe in red. Play the flute short. Startled up a pair of flies and listened to the sound of the waves. " Flute, in the ancient written records of China, has been placed by the ancients with the sacred desire of governing the country and keeping the country safe. The understanding of flute seems to be consistent with the musical ideas expressed in Yue Ji. "Custom Pass": "Flute, washing also. Therefore, it is also elegant and just to cleanse evil and filth. It is four inches long and seven holes. " "Le Shu": "The cleaning of the flute can also cleanse the evil spirits, make it sound positive, seven holes, and lower it, which can be used by the Han Dynasty. Gaigu made a flute, cut the frost of clouds and dreams, and sang the different rhymes of dragons and dragons, so it is good to cleanse evil spirits and sing the right voice. " It can be seen that the connotation of "eliminating evil spirits" or "eliminating evil and filth" of the flute is the same as the function of the ancient court music in China. Therefore, in ancient China, the existence, performance and application of flute played an obvious and prominent role in the court music.
The legendary record of Li Mo's flute playing art in the Tang Dynasty and the poem "Li Mo stole the music score, and flute playing in restaurants is a new sound" (Li Mo Di by Zhang Shu) all illustrate the indispensability of flute playing in court or folk music life and the importance in music expression.
China flute has a history of more than 8, years, if it originated from the "bone flute" unearthed in Wuyang, Henan. In the long history of more than 8, years, China flute has developed and evolved in its own land to its relative perfection and shape today, which has absorbed the painstaking efforts and labor of countless people. The bamboo pipe is just a stone's throw away, and countless players, composers and musical instrument makers have worked hard on it, making China's flute art stand among the world's art circles with an extremely bright and glorious personality.
China flute, with its flowing music waves from ancient times to the present, once standardized the ears of millions of ordinary people in Qian Qian within the social aesthetic habits with Chinese characteristics. It has been blowing since primitive times, and it has been blowing to this day. Its desolate tone is always urging everyone in China to know themselves objectively and soberly.