Chapter 880 The masters who were almost driven crazy by Cheng Taichang’s talents... (please subscribe and vote)
What if Cheng Sanlang, who is rumored to have a bad temper, resents his treatment of him for being too perfunctory during their first meeting and becomes sarcastic, what should he do?
The two of them glanced at the books on the desk and then at each other. Fortunately, Zu Guang was indeed a master of arithmetic and had a very flexible mind.
"How about we go meet Zhang Taile and the others? Zhang Taile is good at music.
They are also quite accomplished in arithmetic, maybe their work can give us some inspiration?"
So, the two of them left the common room belonging to the teachers of the Mathematics Department and wandered towards the common room of the Music Department not far away.
We were still some distance away when we heard Zhang Wenchang's voice coming from the other side.
"So it can still be like this... It seems that I really underestimated him, Cheng Taichang."
Zu Guang was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but speed up his pace towards that direction, and soon arrived in front of the public room of the Music Department.
Then I saw Zhang Wenchang, the former Supreme Commander, poking at the paper in front of him with Deng Youren with his eyebrows dancing.
When he heard the deliberate coughing sound coming from the door, Zhang Wenchang turned his head and looked over, saw Zuguang and Hu Yonglin coming hand in hand, and quickly stood up to greet them.
"Oh, I'm so rude, Zhang is so polite."
After the four of them exchanged a few words, Hu Yonglin, a sharp-eyed person, saw a piece of tribute paper spread out on the desk, which was full of numbers and some strange symbols.
But when he saw that the tribute paper also had numbers from Tianzhu, Hu Yonglin couldn't help but wonder.
"Zhang Taile, could it be that Cheng Taichang also gave you math problems?"
"What math problem?" Zhang Wenchang looked at Hu Yonglin with a confused look on his face. Hu Yonglin couldn't help but laugh, pointing to the book on the table.
"Then above, isn't it the number given by Mrs. Cheng?"
Zhang Wenchang was not happy, so he picked up the piece of tribute paper, pointed it with his finger and said, "These are musical notes, the musical note symbols on the musical notation that Cheng Taichang got."
"This is Duo, this is Xi, this is Mi..."
At this time, Zu Guang, who also came over to take a look, couldn't help but be a little confused. "Cheng Taichang, does he even understand this?"
Zhang Wenchang touched his nose in embarrassment and snorted.
"It's just a little trick. Cheng Taichang doesn't understand our work rules at all."
"But the simple music score he came up with, well, it does have some merit..."
After hearing Zhang Wenchang's words, Zuguang and Hu Yonglin looked at each other, and Zuguang couldn't help but said.
"Since our Tang Dynasty has the gongchi music score, why did Cheng Taichang come up with this simple music score?"
Seeing this question from Zuguang, who was his confidant on the road of mathematics, Zhang Wenchang took in a breath as if he had a toothache and sighed.
"Speaking of this matter, it is quite...actually Zhang knew about it from the housing minister at the time.
I was actually suspended from my salary and came to Cheng Taichang to support me in music."
"Although the emperor's order cannot be violated, Zhang naturally felt uncomfortable in his heart.
After all, Cheng Sanlang is a man of good character. He helped us, Deng Lezheng, and saved his life, but his behavior is quite different from that of gentlemen like us..."
Moreover, I have never heard that Mrs. Cheng knew anything about music.
Therefore, he and Deng Lezheng went to Lu Guogong's Mansion to meet his immediate boss for the next three years.
In order to show off his profound knowledge of music, Zhang Wenchang also wanted to make things a little difficult for Cheng Taichang.
I just hope that Zhang and Deng can teach music how they want at Cheng University. You don’t understand this business.
"...At that time, a certain person asked Cheng Taichang for some questions about music and the basics of gongchipu."
"He couldn't answer any of them, but he told me that although he didn't understand Gongchi Pu, he had simplified musical notation that was simpler, clearer, and easy to learn and understand."
"At that time, Zhang felt that Cheng Taichang was just talking nonsense, but as a result..."
Having said this, Zhang Wenchang looked like he couldn't bear to look back on the past, which aroused the curiosity of Zuguang and Hu Yonglin even more.
Lezheng Deng Youren, who had been silent on the side, smiled and said.
"Cheng Taichang asked Deng to play a piece of music at random, and he memorized it in simplified notation. Deng couldn't refuse, so he played a piece of "High Mountains and Flowing Waters" on the spot..."
Cheng Taichang used these symbols to record a small section of mountain water.
After that, he just followed the simplified score and whistled the tune played by Deng.
Such a cool operation naturally surprised the two music experts, and he also found a piece of simplified musical notation, which not only had the music but also the words.
The lyrics were the opening words of the song "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". When they heard him sing it, Zhang Wenchang and Deng Youren were completely confused...
Zhang Wenchang, who had gradually calmed down, pointed to the opening words and music of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" given to him by Cheng Chubi and composed it.
"After Zhang and Deng Xiandi got this music score, they studied it carefully and discovered that this simple music score is closely related to the Gongchi music score we learned."
For example, Gongchipu uses the characters "Shangchi Gongfan Liuwuyi" and different radicals attached to the left side of the characters to indicate the pitch of the sound.
The simplified musical notation uses seven Arabic numerals and dots attached above or below the numbers to represent the pitch of the sound.
Gongchipu uses the banyan symbol attached to the right side of the character to indicate the length of the sound, while simplified musical notation uses the short horizontal line attached to the right or below the Arabic numeral to indicate the length of the sound.
Simplified musical notation and Gongchipu are so similar, and the method of recording the pitch and length of sounds in Simplified musical notation is simpler and more accurate than Gongchipu.
"Cheng Taichang said that he really doesn't understand music. This simple score is just a game he made casually to record music..."
Having said this, Zhang Wenchang looked up at the ceiling with a life-or-death expression and smiled bitterly.
"Zhang really didn't know how to describe his mood at that time. He just felt so ashamed that he wanted to hide his face and hide his head and leave."
"I have been studying music for nearly thirty years, and I still follow Xiao Gui and Cao Sui, memorizing music, practicing music and teaching music.
He, Cheng Taichang, is so weak at his age, but he is already able to compose his own music, and he is also able to compose such an extraordinary piece of music. He is simply a monster..."
After Zhang Wenchang sighed for a while, his eyes fell on the book held in Zuguang's hand.
"Brother Xian, what are you..."
Zuguang then smiled helplessly and handed the book in his hand to Zhang Wenchang.
"It seems that Cheng Taichang not only has extremely high attainments in arithmetic, but also in music..."
"Here, Cheng Taichang also simplified our figures to facilitate calculations, and he also came up with many calculations and formulas."
"Many problems can be solved one by one using his formulas and the results are obtained. This is not even the most powerful..."
Four masters with extremely high attainments in the fields of mathematics, geometry, and music, but now there is a feeling of sadness that they are about to be driven crazy by the talented Cheng Taichang.
Chapter completed!