Inherit For Three Thousand Years

After looking at the material and strings of the guqin, Xiao Yao then checked the back, bottom and engraving of the case.

The inscriptions are: abdominal inscription "Xuanhe Second Year Imperial System", "Kangxi Gengwu Wang Hanzhang Rebuilt". The Qin box is engraved with the inscriptions "Song Dynasty Flowing Water Flying Red Daqing Qianlong Xinyou New Year Dress" and "Yongbao Used". The back of the piano is engraved with the inscription "Qianlong Renxu Imperial Reward and Inscription".

Undoubtedly, this Qin was made by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty and was inscribed by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty "Flowing Water Flying Red". , gray antlers, chestnut shell paint, ice cracks between the snake belly lines on the surface, and broken buffalo hair on the bottom.

Famous Guqin products have been passed down since ancient times, handed over by famous masters, properly repaired, and the sound of the qin is not damaged.

This qin and qin case made by Emperor Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty with the imperial inscription "Flowing Water Flying Red" in the Qing Dynasty have been collected by several generations of inner courts, and they are as good as ever. Undoubtedly, the imperial official qin was installed in the box in the Xinyou Year of Qianlong and was rewarded in the Renxu Year of Qianlong. It should be the only surviving example of the Northern Song Dynasty official qin.

It is not difficult to judge this point, as evidenced by several key details.

Xiao Yao first looked at the strings. The strings were as white as ice, similar to the "Silk Taiqing Strings" collected by Emperor Kangxi in the Palace Museum, and they should have been made by Hangzhou Weaving at that time.

The "Miscellaneous Work Documents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' Manufacturing Office" in the first existing domestic historical archives records that on October 19th in the fourth year of Yongzheng, there was a purpose to change the strings, to wear the feet, and to match five-color velvet with five-color velvet; On the first day of April in the sixth year, an order was passed to replace the jade feet and add tassels.

Today's "flowing water is flying red" sapphire feet should have been matched at that time.

Although the tassels have been decolorized for hundreds of years, the knotting technique is the same as that of the tassels preserved in the Imperial Palace, so they should have been added and replaced at the same time.

Continue to look down, there is a rectangular dragon pool and Feng marsh, and in the belly pool of the piano, "Xuanhe Ernian Yuzhi" is engraved on the right, and "Kangxi Gengwu Wang Hanzhang Rebuilt" is engraved on the left.

Under the Longchi, the name of the piano in official script "Flowing Water Flying Red" is engraved with turquoise. There are three lines of running script engraved on the pool: "An ancient brocade bag taoies the Longmen qin, and Zhu Xian rests for a long time to hear the thunderbolt sound. Ande Boya empathizes with his hand, and writes the landscape heart for Yu Yi."

There is also a line of small characters, saying: "Qianlong Renxu imperial reward and inscription". All filled with clay gold. The whereabouts of the vermilion white round seal "Jian Tianxin" side, gold emblem.

These details are enough to support Xiao Yao's judgment.

This Qin has been preserved to this day. The body of the Qin is completely original in the Song Dynasty. The case and accessories on the Qin are all old items from the Qing Palace. The favor of the two emperors has been kept in secret for a long time. Now it has been handed down to this day with a complete set of old appearance. Naturally, it is the king and treasure of the Qin. The most important.

Xiao Yao paid special attention to this guqin,

The above is not the point, the point is the material used in this piano.

Many people think that the material of this guqin is sycamore wood, but it is not. The material of this guqin is called "Qingyin wood", and its appearance and characteristics are very close to sycamore wood.

But the value of voiceless wood is much higher than that of sycamore wood.

Qingyin wood is a first-class spirit wood. Although it is only the lowest spirit wood and its value is not high, it has a characteristic, that is, if you use this kind of wood to make a guqin, the sound will be like the sound of nature, very beautiful.

In ancient times, many famous guqin masters dreamed of this ordinary first-class spiritual wood, but it is a pity that Qingyin wood is very rare. Although the grade is not high, it is extremely difficult to make a guqin with it.

For Xiao Yao, this Liushui Feihong Qin, which is famous in history, is actually made of Qingyin wood. This is of course a surprise to Xiao Yao.

Pan Wu's attainments in music are extremely high, especially for various ethnic ancient musical instruments, which is at the level of a master. Xiao Yao inherited Pan Wu's talent in music, and he was naturally overjoyed when he saw this Guqin made of Qingyin wood.

In terms of value, if this flowing water flying red piano from the Northern Song Dynasty is put up for auction, the auction price should be between 300 million and 350 million yuan, and there is a premise that the appraiser must have a good understanding of the timbre of this guqin. This price will only be available after the audition.

If the appraiser doesn't know the timbre of this Guqin is special, then he will definitely not dare to play this Guqin worth over 100 million yuan. If he dare not try it, one of the most important features of this Guqin will be buried.

Without this selling point, the auction price of this guqin would be around 150 million yuan at most.

After appreciating, Xiao Yao couldn't wait to try it out.

Since the environment in the Holy Soul Realm has changed greatly, there are countless beautiful scenery and fairyland-like scenic spots. Under the towering mountains and beside the gurgling stream, Xiao Yao took out the flowing water flying red piano and played a famous classical song " Mountains and Flowing Water".

This song "High Mountain and Flowing Water" is well-known to everyone, and its origin is even more fascinating.

Yu Boya, whose name is Rui, and Boya is his name, was born in the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods. Yu Boya was proficient in the art of playing the piano.

Yu Boya first met Zhong Ziqi at Jiangkou in Hanyang. Zhong Ziqi said that he was also proficient in music notation and could play the piano.

So he asked many questions about professional instrumental music to test him. Zhong Ziqi not only answered fluently, but also knew the truth.

In order to better test Zhong Ziqi's understanding of the music, Yu Boya played a piece on the spot, and as soon as the sound of the piano fell, Zhong Ziqi praised: "It's so beautiful, my lord's intention, it's in the mountains."

Boya continued to play a song without losing his voice, and Ziqi forgot to indulge in it and praised: "It's so beautiful, it's like flowing water."

Boya was startled, pushed the qin and got up, saluting again and again: "There is a treasure of beautiful jade in the stone. If you judge people by their appearance, you will not be worthy of the world's sages? Disrespect! Disrespect!"

Subsequently, Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi became brothers with different surnames, and they made an appointment to meet again the next year. Although they met by chance, they hit it off like old friends, and they became "friends" from "bosom friends".

This qin, this song, and this story have been passed down through the ages, eulogized by later generations, and deeply inspired people.

This piece is an ancient piece that Xiao Yao personally likes very much, and he has played it many times. But at this moment, at the foot of the high mountain and beside the stream, he played this flying red qin with flowing water, his state of mind fit the artistic conception of this piece very well, the sound of the qin was eloquent, soupy, drifting leisurely, straight into the clouds .

After the song was played, Xiao Yao was very satisfied.

When he played this piece before, his performance may not be worse than this time, but the effect after playing is very different. This is the difference between a good piano.

For a musician, the musical instrument is the weapon in their hands, and this flowing water flying red piano is like a peerless sword like a peerless swordsman.

Xiao Yao played a few more classic guqin pieces in succession, and only then ended the audition with a lot of satisfaction.

The guqin made of Qingyin wood is just like the legendary timbre, and Xiao Yao is very satisfied.

Although Xiao Yao is very satisfied, this guqin is not without any shortcomings. This guqin not only has shortcomings, but the shortcomings are obvious.

For the Guqin, the wood used to make the Guqin is the most important, but besides the wood, the strings are also very important.

Although the strings of this Flowing Water Flying Red Qin are also carefully crafted by famous masters, due to the gap in materials, it is impossible to bring out all the characteristics of Qingyin wood.

To make this guqin perfect, Xiao Yao had to make the strings himself.

It just so happened that besides alchemy, Xiao Yao was also proficient in refining weapons. And the grade of Qingyin wood is not high, so he can refine a few strings worthy of Qingyin wood.

Do whatever comes to mind.

Since the great changes in the holy soul world, the types and quantity of first-level spiritual plants in the holy soul world have increased dramatically. It is not difficult to find a few good materials for refining strings.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Xiao Yao had prepared several materials for refining the strings that Xiao Yao needed.

These kinds of materials are all first-level spiritual materials. It's not that Xiao Yao can't come up with better spiritual materials, but it's not necessary.

The strings are only an auxiliary of the Liushuifeihongqin, and the core element is still clear wood.

Within an hour, several strings that looked like ice silk were refined.

The grade of these ice threads is not high, and after refining, they are only first-class materials.

But this is exactly what Xiao Yao needs.

Qingyin wood is just a first-class spiritual material. As an auxiliary string, if the grade is too high, it will play a suppressive role. Refined into a first-class string, the effect is just right.

When I woke up on the second day, breakfast was half an hour later than before.

This is the habit of the Fang family. Every day of rest, the breakfast will be prepared more abundantly, so the meal time will be later.

After breakfast, Fang Suxi was in good spirits and impromptu played a few piano pieces for everyone.

Fang's father and Fang's mother are loyal fans of their daughter, and they will give the warmest applause every time a song ends.

After playing 4 piano pieces in a row, Fang Suxi stopped.

"Susu has made great progress. It seems that she should have worked hard in school during this period." Her daughter's performance has improved obviously, which made Fang's mother very pleased.

"There is some progress, but it's still far away. My goal is to catch up with Xiao Yao's playing level. It's not easy to achieve this goal. This small improvement is not worth mentioning at all."

During this period of time, Fang Suxi did not relax in the slightest about her major, and practiced hard every day, which made such obvious progress.

But such progress obviously did not satisfy her. With Xiao Yaozhuyu in front, she felt that she was still far behind.

"Why, Xiao Yao can also play the piano, and he plays it very well?" Mother Fang was surprised.

"It's not very good, it's very good. If I can catch up with him in my life in piano performance, then I'll be satisfied." Fang Suxi nodded repeatedly.

"Xiao Yao is really versatile. The kid Susu is usually very modest, but he never admits defeat in piano performance. I didn't expect to praise someone so much today. It seems that Xiao Yao's piano performance must be very high. I don't know. Do we have the honor to listen to you play a piece yourself?" There was nothing to worry about, Father Fang asked directly.

After all, it was the father-in-law's request, and Xiao Yao felt a little itchy after listening to his girlfriend's performance, so he readily agreed: "Then I will play two pieces, and please uncle and auntie to taste."

Xiao Yao didn't play those highly difficult repertoires. He first played "Dream Wedding", and then played "City in the Sky", and then played at Fang Suxi's request A virtuoso "Flight of the Bumble Bee" ended the performance.

It wasn't until the piano sound ended for a long time that Fang's father and Fang's mother came back to their senses and gave warm applause. Even though it was two people applauding, because the two of them were too excited and their hands were very hard, the applause was quite warm.

"Xiao Yao, I really didn't expect your piano performance to be so high. I think your level is no worse than those of the world's top pianists." Father Fang couldn't help admiring.

"The level is really high! I just listened to Christian's live performance some time ago, and I think his performance level seems to be inferior to Xiao Yao's." Fang's mother was very shocked. He didn't expect Xiao Yao's piano performance level to be so high. to this point.

"You're too much." Xiao Yao was humble once in a while.

Fang Suxi and You Rongyan said: "Xiao Yao is proficient in many kinds of musical instruments. Not only is he good at playing the piano, he is also proficient in violin and cello. He is especially good at playing ethnic musical instruments. If we have time, we can let him show his skills and listen to it." How about his accomplishments on other instruments."

Xiao Yao's versatility has exceeded Father Fang's imagination. He continued to ask: "Xiao Yao is still proficient in national musical instruments. He is really versatile. I like listening to Guqin music the most. I wonder if you are proficient?"

"My personal favorite musical instrument is the lyre, and my attainments in playing the lyre are also the highest. If Uncle Fang is interested, I can play a piece for you."

Xiao Yao just got the Liushui Feihong piano, and it was equipped with new strings. It was the time when he was most interested in playing, so there was no delay.

Father Fang slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "This is really great! There are not many famous lyre players in China, and I am busy with work, so I haven't heard a high-level lyre performance for a long time. Well, another day I will prepare a lyre at home, and I can't wait to enjoy it."

"Aren't you busy with work today?"

"Today is a rest day, so I won't go to work in the morning, but I will attend a foreign affairs reception in the afternoon, so I only have half a day off." For Lingdao like Father Fang, it is normal to work overtime on rest days.

"If this is the case, then there is no need to wait another day. I have a lyre in my car, and I can play a song for you now." Xiao Yao said straightforwardly.

"Really? It seems that you really love the piano, and you even carry a guqin with you. I can't wait to hear you play it now." Father Fang looked surprised.

"The weather is so nice today, why don't we go to the yard and listen to you play? I can't wait." Fang Suxi has never heard Xiao Yao play the guqin, and she is also very interested in it.