Chinese entertainment for engineering students

Just when Professor Shuimu was once again caught up in various Wang Xu's tossings, Wang Xu, the instigator, was leisurely and contentedly on vacation with Wang Fei.

After returning from the performance, Wang Xu naturally spends the day with his wife, which is also his favorite way to relax. Nowadays, Wang Fei basically no longer enjoys shopping. Instead, the parents of the two families, Wang Xu's mother and Wang Fei's mother, meet up to go shopping from time to time.

The children can earn money, so they throw a lot of money at home. At first, they saved it for the children, but they couldn't bear it and transferred a lot of money from time to time. What should I do? Spend it, the children are too ambitious and it is very worrying. of.

At this time, the imperial capital also had some high-end shopping malls, among which Peninsula Hotel, Guomao and Lufthansa were the most high-end.

Of course, in Wang Xu’s opinion, that’s all. At this time, most of the real luxury goods in the world have not yet entered China. Even the entry-level products in luxury goods only opened their first store in the Peninsula Hotel last year. .

Wang Xu's understanding of these is not even as good as Tang Yun's. She is now familiar with these luxury goods. Since she met Honghuang, she has completely opened another door to fashion.

In the past, the things Wang Xu designed had a strong sense of fashion, but they had a strong youthful flavor. This result is caused by Wang Xu's own preferences. After all, he is very young now and the woman he loves is the same. Naturally, he will not put his limited resources too much into business.

It's not that they don't exist, it's just that they're not that prominent. With the large number of fashion magazines she brought back to China and Tang Yun's tireless collection, she can now be said to have seen most of the international fashion trends.

Only then did she truly understand how advanced Wang Xu's designs were. Many of his highly designed clothes had an even greater impact than those of major international brands.

Honghuang has been a little excited recently, and Tang Yun has been encouraging her to start a business. This girl from the imperial capital has an average appearance, but she has a very good sense of fashion, but she doesn't care about her own clothes at all, which seems very contradictory.

But Tang Yun always felt that she should be able to make achievements in this area. When she told Wang Xu this idea, Wang Xu was a little surprised. This girl's growth rate was completely beyond everyone's imagination. It was simply It's just cheating.

Although she won't shine in the sky like Wang Fei, she can definitely amaze most people in this era.

Therefore, of course Wang Xu agreed. He rarely went to Wang Chao Clothing recently and left it to this girl to take care of it. Since the Xiangjiang branch, she has successfully opened branches in Shanghai and Yangcheng, and even We have already made plans to expand our business in Xiaori.

These shops may not look big, but they are Wang Xu's cash cows. Since they opened, no one has worried about them.

Now she has real plans to enter the field of fashion. Of course Wang Xu supports it. There is no need to mention her salary. However, if Honghuang is willing to work in a fashion magazine, she is indeed a good candidate. After all, she will be known as Known for his fashion commentary, he is a well-known media personality.

At this time, she was still serving as the chief executive in China for a foreign company. She was of Chou nationality, but Wang Xu didn't care much.

Speaking of which, she was also one of the victims of squinting. At that time, the models and celebrities she published for the domestic fashion magazine iLook were basically all well-known in the mainland, including Qu Ying, Zhao Yanzi, Yuan Quan, Mei Ting, etc. They are all Chinese aesthetics with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Later, Western magazines such as VOGUE and Harper's Bazaar began to enter China. It can be said that they were crushed all the way in the fashion field. Those squinty-eyed models really landed in China. However, even at that time, squinty-eyed models did not become China. Mainstream aesthetics have always been criticized.

But it was at that time that terms such as the so-called high-end face gradually became popular and had a completely different interpretation.

Since then, China has completely lost its right to speak in fashion, and Honghuang has gradually faded out of the fashion circle. Therefore, she gritted her teeth every time she mentioned squinting her eyes.

Let's take it as big as it is, or as small as it is small. After struggling for a long time, people still like fair skin, beauty and long legs. Just let nature take its course. In fact, Wang Xu doesn't value the right to speak about this thing that much in his heart.

Those fashion magazines have been busy promoting it for a long time, but no one has actually done plastic surgery according to that image. Instead, they have all kinds of contact lenses that they have made since childhood. Fake double eyelids are very popular, so he is too lazy to worry about it. He has time to get some drones. It's not good to come out.

But Tang Yun brought it up herself. Since she already has a fashion brand and Honghuang is a good trader, when it comes to wallet issues, she naturally has to support her own people in the competition. It's good to earn more, right? .

Therefore, Wang Xu naturally nodded and asked Tang Yun to continue to instigate Honghuang to publish a magazine. Honghuang was a member of the third generation of reds, and his connections in the imperial capital were not comparable to those of Wang Er.

Of course, if you want to have real connections, Wang Xu is the best. If he wants to do something, he will be a real big shot when he comes out of the booth.

But when it comes to second-generation friends and so on, that is the home of the prehistoric era.

Wang Xu knew that Hong Huang would be tempted by this kind of thing sooner or later. She was actually quite good at writing and had enough vision. She had also seen the colorful world overseas, so she could be said to be the best candidate to manage fashion magazines.

Besides, she had just broken up with a big director and was feeling sad. Wouldn't it be appropriate to start a business?

What, what do you think Wang Xu is doing? Haha, he was giving a lecture with his arms around a naked girl. Yes, giving a lecture. This started when Wang Fei started her studies at Yangyin.

When entering the music school, you have to catch up on some basic knowledge. In addition to basic singing skills and the like, there are also various music appreciation and music history. The two of them talked about something that was quite annoying, well, at least it made Wang Xu sick. things.

There is actually a big debate in China at this time in the music and historical circles, about where the seventh tone comes from.

Everyone knows the five notes of Huaxia Gong Shang Jiao Zhengyu, but modern temperament mostly uses the seventh-order, 1234567 calibration method, which is the so-called seventh-order temperament.

The Western music industry believes that China's seven tones were later transmitted from Buddhism, but they cannot explain when or how they were transmitted. As for the Chinese music industry, there are some who believe it and some who don't. It's okay, after all, even if it was passed down, it was two thousand years ago.

However, many ancient Chinese tunes have been lost, and many pieces of music recorded in ancient books have been lost. Direct written evidence rarely proves where the seven tones came from.

This is also an example of China’s emphasis on words and devaluation of music. Many words have been immortalized through the ages, but the music has been almost lost. Of course, this is also due to the fact that words are easier to preserve and are known to more people, but the loss of those ancient songs is also It has to be a pity.

Everyone says that Chinese music has five tones, but what’s interesting is that in fact, very few of the music scores handed down from China use only five tones. Instead, they use a lot of half tones, and the overall situation shows that both six tones and seven tones exist.

It's not that Jasmine has pure five notes, but not much.

The so-called fifth-order temperament is a popular saying in modern times. In ancient China, it was said that the five tones are not complete, which refers to the five tones of Gong Shangjiao and Zhengyu, but the two semitones of 47 are hidden.

Because these two sounds are incomplete, they sound sad, depressed, and lack a sense of grandeur. They are not liked by scholar-bureaucrats, and are often ignored on purpose.

Well, you see that Xiaozhi especially likes to use those two tones, but the ancient music of Xiaozhi is also transmitted from China. If China has five tones, where did they learn those two tones?

Five tones, or seven tones? In fact, China has already concluded that the five tones are the correct tones, which is favored by literati and officials.

The other two tones are semitones, which make people feel depressed when they hear them, so they are disgusted by them, so they have the theory of five tones.

But that doesn’t mean that those two tones are not used in ancient Chinese music. In the tomb of Marquis Zeng Yi of the Warring States Period unearthed in 1977, a set of national treasure-level bronze cultural relic variants were unearthed. That thing has 5 octaves and uses seven Music was introduced much earlier than the legendary time when it was introduced with Buddhism.

Wang Xu even felt that Qiyin was originally invented and spread by China. After all, the history that can be traced back is too long.

However, this era was one of the times when the Chinese nation lacked self-confidence. Most Western music writings believed that Chinese music was five-note, and therefore questioned that Chinese music was barren.

When Westerners questioned it, the first reaction of Chinese scholars was not to scold them, but to immediately go back and reflect on whether we really couldn't do it.

This led to the ridiculous five-tone and seven-tone dispute during this period, but this was not the biggest point of controversy. After all, no matter who invented it, it was not invented by the West.

The real dispute is in another important area of ​​music, that is, whether the fifth tone or the seventh tone needs to be tuned, that is, how to calibrate the accurate musical tone.

The so-called five tones and seven tones are actually not just a music problem, it is also a mathematical problem.

Whether a sound sounds good or not is determined by the human ear and related brain. Research shows that this is related to the frequency of the sound.

If a string can produce a pleasant sound, then half the length of the string must also be suitable.

This is the original and simplest cognition of the ancients, but to explain it mathematically, if a frequency is pleasant to the ear, then its multiple frequency must also be pleasant to the ear.

It can also be deduced from this that triples and quadruples of this frequency are also pleasant to the ear, and these multiples are what is now called an octave.

To define the five tones within an octave, you need to use the three-point gain and loss method. It is a very old method and is quite troublesome to explain, but it does conform to the laws of mathematics and is quite beautiful.

These five correct tones can be obtained through this method, but the two tones 4 and 7 cannot. Therefore, until now, China has not figured out how the tomb of Zeng Houyi was determined.

This problem has actually troubled the Chinese people for a long time, until Zhu Zaiyu, a prince of the Ming Dynasty, invented the law of twelve equals. I won’t go into details here, because it is much more complicated than the three-point profit and loss method.

Someone built a big abacus with 81 positions, manually calculated the 12th root of 2, and calculated the string length ratio between each note as 1.059463094359295264561825.

That's right, 24 decimal places, the magical ancestors of China.

Only then did the 7th tone really find its place. This equal temperament was later spread to the West through the hands of missionaries, and this was the reason why the entire Western music exploded.

Well, a scientist who likes music changed the world just like that.

Until now, the equal temperament of twelve is still the most important tuning method in the field of music. The modern definition is that 440Hz is defined by the International Organization for Standardization as 6 in the key of C, and then other scales are calculated based on the equal temperament of twelve.

Of course, music is inherently different from person to person, and slight differences in frequency are difficult for most people to perceive. Some paranoid symphony orchestras define 442 or 443Hz as 6, but there is nothing they can do about it.

Our ancestors have made such great achievements, and Westerners have obviously benefited from it, but looking back, they tell us that it was the Baroque Bach who invented the Twelve Equal Temperaments, because Bach wrote the "Twelve Equal Temperaments Collection".

But the problem is that the twelve equal temperament is a mathematical achievement, not a musical achievement. How did a musician who had never studied mathematics calculate the golden ratio of 1.06?

The answer is actually obvious. It was passed down from China. At least most people in China think so. You can also see this result if you check Baidu Encyclopedia.

But even in the later generations before Wang Xu traveled through time, this conclusion was still criticized by many Westerners, who did not acknowledge the wisdom of the Chinese ancestors and stubbornly believed that the musician Bach invented this mathematical law.

Therefore, the Western pseudo-historical theories that have made a fuss on the Internet in later generations are really not to blame for the Chinese people's pretentiousness. It is actually that they have done too many things like this.

Later generations will question Aristotle. The West has not done anything yet, but a group of big Vs in China are attacking him.

It's the same question. Why should people question it? We will quickly prove it ourselves and look for evidence everywhere, wishing we could dig up all of China.

And when we question others, we still have to find evidence ourselves. Shouldn’t they provide evidence?

Wang Xu didn't know whether Aristotle was true, but he really knew how far the West would go to fabricate some life experiences. When it came to the Middle Ages, even most of the aristocratic genealogies in the West were forged.

They had no habit of recording history at all. Before paper and printing were introduced to the West, there were few literate people in the entire West.

Even many pastors point to the Bible and explain it blindly, because they don’t understand it. How many literate people can be cultivated by hand-copied Bibles on parchment?

Therefore, Wang Xu really did not hesitate to speculate on the West with the greatest malice, imagining their bronze sword last week and straw basket last year. Wang Xu really felt that it was a bit wasteful to complain.

There are also a group of big Vs who claim to be knowledgeable and know everything about the past and present. They will tell you that if you work for a thousand years, you will be wet for ten thousand years. If you don’t dry or wet, it will only take half a year.

I don't care whether it's dry or wet, any ancient site in China will have countless accompanying cultural relics unearthed. If you search nearby, there will be ruins of houses, ditches, streets, and even city walls.

If you're lucky, you can even find a workshop that makes that thing. Why can't they only dig one no matter what, and what about the others? This is the place to do it, right?

In Wang Xu's view, the entire history of the Western world is just a bunch of myths in front of Chinese history, not even novels. At least novels must pay attention to the logic of succession and cause and effect.

At this point, they are still questioning the existence of the Xia Dynasty in China. Until later generations, it is still written in major encyclopedias that the Xia Dynasty is unconfirmed, even though the Xia Dynasty has been verified by China.

If it hadn't been for the discovery of oracle bone inscriptions, even the Shang Dynasty would have been considered non-existent by the ancient skeptics.

At this time, the Chinese archaeological community has not yet completed the excavation of the Erlitou site, so it is extremely mocking to view the 5,000-year-old Chinese culture. Wang Xu would still kick it even if he experienced it again. The impulse of their kick.

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