Chapter five hundred and fiftieth chapters prepare the suona song to hold back the big move
Li Longji's birthday is on August 5th every year. In the 16th year of the lunar calendar, Prime Minister Zhang Shu wrote a letter suggesting that the emperor change his birthday to the Qianqiu Festival, turning the emperor's personal birthday into a festival celebrated by the people across the country, and the courtiers had a day off.
To show the emperor's kindness, the emperor will be happy and the ministers will be happy, but as for the common people... who cares whether they are happy or not.
One day during the seventh year of Tianbao, an eunuch in Nannei Xingqing Palace found a cluster of Ganoderma lucidum on a pillar of Datong Hall. He quickly reported it to his superior eunuch, who in turn reported it to Gao Lishi, who reported it to the emperor. This was another incident.
This was an auspicious symbol for the prosperity of the country, so all the officials went to the table to celebrate again, and suggested that the Qianqiu Festival should be changed to the Tianchang Festival, which indicated the meaning of eternity.
Later, the Japanese learned this bad thing, so the birthday of the Japanese Emperor became the Tenjo Festival, which has continued until the 21st century.
Every autumn, officials from various states would send people to Beijing to offer congratulatory gifts, and the emperor would hold a banquet for his ministers at the Huarui Tower. Although it was not as exaggerated as the banquet of bliss, it still cost countless money and was extremely lavish.
But today the emperor is tired of the gifts sent from border towns and places, because there are always those things over and over again, such as coral pearls from the south, spices and jade from the north. If you have the ability, you can get some specialties from South and North America.
He now pursues the beauty of art, spiritual things, good music, and beautiful dances instead of vulgar gold and silver.
So the emperor issued an order to these feudal officials to stop wasting their lives and money to amass property. Now I am not good at these things. If you are really serious, then you can present some songs and dances to make me happy and at the same time.
If it can improve my artistic accomplishment, why not do it.
In fact, some people have long recognized this lineage of the emperor. In the 29th year of the lunar calendar, Gai Jiayun, the governor of Longyou in Hexi Province, presented "Ganzhou Daqu" before the Qianqiu Festival. The famous tune "Ganzhou Eight Tones"
It was an excerpt from Ganzhou Daqu. The emperor was very excited after getting it and immediately ordered Jiaofang Liyuan to arrange and perform it. It even spread to folk restaurants and teahouses, and later spread to Japan.
With this story, Li Siye felt that it was not enough for him to just play the suona. He had to arrange a program around the suona. This program had to be combined with his military career. In addition to entertaining the emperor, he also had a more noble reason.
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The Tang Dynasty had been at peace for a long time. Except for the border towns where the ten military envoys were stationed, the Central Plains and even the south of the Yangtze River had not experienced war for several generations. There was no modern radio and television at that time. In addition to knowing the emperor's reign and the name of the traitor, most people knew nothing about it.
They knew nothing about these wars going on at the border, and even some county magistrates who had hired officials had no idea that the emperor was waging wars year after year.
Did the emperor pay enough attention to the army? Of course not. He only valued victory and the expansion of territory. He did not care about the soldiers participating in the war. Forcibly ordering Ge Shuhan to conquer the stone castle is the best proof. Datang
At the beginning, the popular dance music in the court was the King of Qin's breaking formation dance and the big formation music. The popular among the people was "Da Mian", which was the song for King Lanling to enter the formation. By the time of the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the Tianbao period, the palace was performed with feather robes.
Pure artistic dance represented by neon clothes, popular folk dances have been replaced by Hu Xuan dance and Hu Teng dance. The emperor and the people themselves may not realize that they are slowly abandoning the martial spirit from Zhenguan to the early Kaiyuan period.
Ever since the government's military system was gradually abolished due to problems, people have gradually begun to despise the profession of soldiers. I don't know when the saying "A good man cannot be a soldier if he doesn't hammer nails" spread, but this trend started at this time.
, coupled with the disasters of vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty, and then the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, by the time the Northern Song Dynasty began, it had become common sense for the government and the people to control military force with culture.
You can see who is currently filling the Longwu Army, Youxiao Guard, and Jinwu Guard of the Central Suwei. When Xuanzong was replenishing his troops, he originally required Guanzhong Liangjiazizi to participate in the recruitment, and he also had to undergo certain physical tests and military tests.
Literacy test, but in practice, most children from good families are unwilling to join the army, so they spend money to buy some local ruffians to take their places. When the Anshi Rebellion occurs, most of the Gyeonggi security forces cannot bear armor, which means that even the most basic march without armor is
They can't do it, which shows how bad they are.
Starting from this year, there was also a problem with the supply of troops sent from the local areas to the frontiers. Most of them could not be used. An Lushan also had an excuse to report to the emperor that the people recruited from the south and the Central Plains were weak and there were many deserters. He suggested that from
Recruit locally in Hebei, so that the soldiers come from the local area and no longer suffer from homesickness, and can more safely expand the territory for the saints.
With such obvious intentions, the emperor readily agreed.
That's too far.
If Li Siye wants to use music to sweep away the overwhelming music in Chang'an today, he must show the impassioned side of the suona. The only one who can do this is the BGM "Men Should Be Strong" in the movie Once Upon a Time that no one can surpass.
" is a piece of music that Hong Kong genius musician Huang Zhan extracted and adapted from more than a dozen versions of the ancient song "Jiangjun Ling". The ancient music of "Jiang Jiang Ling" first originated from the Western Han Dynasty, and the one that has been spread to this day originated from the Tang Dynasty.
This song, of course, has undergone many changes during its circulation.
He specially listened to the royal court version of the General's Order, which was a guzheng and pipa version. The melody was sometimes soothing and intense, and sometimes soft and cheerful. It showed the urgency of a general rising to his account to give orders before going to war, but its status in the palace was limited.
It is not as good as the "Grand Formation Music", nor as good as "The Qin King's Breaking Formation Song", and not as good as Tang Xuanzong's "Feather Wings and Colorful Clothes Song". However, "General's Order" has been circulated for more than a thousand years, and countless folk artists have continuously revised it, and then re-edited it.
Rearranged by Huang Zhan, it will definitely have the effect of inspiring people in Hua Cai Lou. Should this phenomenon be like a cow's stomach regurgitating music nutrients that transcend time and space? The reverse cycle itself is a kind of magic.
This was his favorite song when he was playing suona. As soon as the suona started playing, it immediately gave people a super-burning feeling that made their scalp explode. There was also an aura that made people die even though tens of thousands of people were there. Although his skills have become rusty now.
, but there are still more than seven months until Tianchang Festival, so there is plenty of time to polish it.
What he has to do now is to dig out as many things as possible in his memory, such as the rhythm of the cowhide drum, the rapid accompaniment of the guzheng, and the flute played horizontally. Due to the time difference of more than a thousand years, the timbres of the instruments are also very different.
All require continuous improvement.
After making a plan, you should recruit a band. First, find drummers in the army. This is not difficult. Drummers in the army are all high-energy. They can use their maximum strength to spread the drum sound to the ears of the soldiers in front, boosting their morale.
Go high and never retreat. We also need to build new drums on all four sides. Why do we build four drums? Because the space of the calyx building is not small, let the four drums occupy four directions respectively, so that the sound penetrates from all directions and then refracts back.
He also wanted to find a flutist who could play the flute horizontally. Fortunately, Hu music was popular in Tingzhou and Gaochang, and there was also the "Ganzhou Eight Tones" spread from Hexi. There were countless folk masters. He sent people to look for him in many places, and finally found him in
With the help of the Zhang family in Dunhuang, we found an old musician in his fifties. His flute playing skills had reached an advanced level and he was probably on par with Li Mo, the master of the music department in Liyuan.
But there is still a lack of a piano player. Most of these masters come from the Central Plains and the South. In places like Beiting, Hexi, where Hu music is popular, it is difficult to find such a musician.
Compared with these masters, his suona skills were still very flawed. In order not to be held back, he had to go to the riverside outside the city to practice music every day. He also worked hard to win the favor of the emperor in exchange for an official position.