1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 564

On March 1646, 4, Hanzhou, Jianye City.

"When is the bright moon?"

"Ask the sky for wine."

"I don't know what year it is in the palace of heaven."

"..."

"Nung, moon and new moon."

A soft and melodious melody that is completely different from this period resounds in the Zhaoming Hall of King Qi Palace, sometimes accompanied by silk and bamboo instruments such as pipa, sheng, and guqin. Trait contagion.

"Well, very good, it seems to have some taste." Qi Tian couldn't help smiling when he heard it. Although the instrument is a bit crude and the tone is not as ethereal as in later generations, it sounds more or less like modern music.

"Thank you, King, for your compliment!" Bai Zhijun put down the Guqin in his arms, and bowed his body slightly.Several maids and musicians sitting next to him also got up and saluted Qi Tian.

"There's no need to be too polite." Qi Tian waved his hand and said, "For the past ten days, I must have been impatient to wait for you to make up random lyrics and music to cater to the widow."

"The villain dare not!" Song Kangzu knelt down when he heard the words, and the others followed him and knelt behind him. Bai Zhijun was stunned for a moment, and then knelt on the ground.

"What are you doing? Hurry up!" Qi Tian couldn't help but smiled wryly, "I, Qi Guo, don't like to kneel and kowtow, you don't need to do that. What I said just now was not to threaten you, it was indeed me who made up the tune, It’s because you’ve never heard of it before, making it difficult for you.”

Song Kangzu peeked over and saw that Qi Tian was sincere and didn't play tricks on them, he was slightly relieved.

The six of them, including Bai Zhijun, the oiran of Zhengxing Street in Guangzhou, were all bought from Mingcui Building in Guangzhou by Zhou Yingping, a Huai merchant, and they were taken all the way to Hanzhou.After staying in Jianye City for two months, Zhou Yingping managed to get into the palace through Bai Yuangui, the big shopkeeper of the Indian trading company, and dedicated them to King Qi.

I thought that Hanzhou was a place for wild people. Since they left Guangzhou, they have been sailing across the sea, as if they would never go to the end of the sea road. They have become ashamed and ready to bury their bones in the wilderness. They are at the mercy of others. .

However, after arriving in Jianye City, I found that except for a few short black natives and red-haired and green-eyed barbarians, most of them are Ming people like them. What is even more gratifying is that there are cities, There are workshops, farmland, government offices, restaurants, inns, and even several bustling commodity trading markets in the city.Although the population of this city is about the size of an ordinary county town in Ming Dynasty, the entire city is extremely neatly planned and extremely clean (it is necessary to maintain urban sanitation in tropical regions to prevent epidemics).

The royal palace of the Qi State is not luxurious, it looks not as good as the mansion of the Daming King, but it is elegant and quiet, like a unique garden, the pavilions and pavilions are similar to the surrounding mountains, forests, and lakes (reservoirs). Integrating into one, it also has a bit of the charm of Suzhou gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.

Many people thought that after seeing Bai Zhijun's beauty, the king of Qi would immediately bring her into the palace and be lucky to her.

Unexpectedly, after seeing Mr. Bai Zhi all of a sudden, the king was just a little distracted, and then asked them some knowledge and experience when they lived in Guangzhou, as if he wanted to learn about the local people's livelihood, customs and political style through their mouths.

When the king heard that all of them knew vocal music, silk and bamboo, he ordered them to perform for him.Everyone didn't dare to be negligent, and showed all their strengths, showing a song and dance with moving rhythm and enchanting posture.

After the king watched it, he seemed very interested, and asked them to perform several more performances one after another, including dancing, musical instruments, and Bai Zhijun's self-playing and singing.

Before it was too late, the king seemed to be a little interested, and said that he wanted to teach them a new vocal music. The words were Tang and Song poems, and the music was a strange tone that they had never heard before.Although everyone was puzzled, no one dared to raise any objections.The king hummed the tone softly, and Song Kangzu and others tried to play it with the zither, guqin, pipa, dulcimer, etc. Bai Zhijun continued to sing along with the rhythm.

However, although the new song is easy to learn, it took several days for everyone to gradually master how to play that weird rhythm with the instruments they are familiar with. After repeated practice, they can also practice together in accordance with the requirements of the king. .Now, with his face-to-face affirmation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

However, during the more than ten days in contact with the king of Qi, these writers and artists from Guangzhou, Ming Dynasty also felt that although the king was young, he was not arrogant, gentle, and did not have the barbarian style of being in a prehistoric place. On the contrary, he is erudite and talented, and has insightful views on various affairs. He is a promising king.

What's more difficult is that during the ten days or so with the beautiful and talented Mr. Bai Zhi, there was no sign of being in a hurry, and most of the conversations were about rhythm and dance performances.This point, although Song Kangzu and the others were gratified, also felt a little uneasy.The king of the Qi State does not seek women's sex, but is fortunate to beauties, so the purpose of Huai Shang Zhou Yingping to present them has not been achieved?
"Song Kangzu, here is a piece of lyrics, you try to sing." Qi Tian picked up a piece of paper with lyrics and music from the table and handed it to Song Kangzu.

Song Kangzu was stunned when he heard the words.Shouldn't Bai Zhijun lead the singing of lyrics and music? Furthermore, why would a man from Angzang do the singing and dancing?During this period, no one would want to see a rough man singing softly on stage, scratching his head and making poses!
"Miss Bai can't do it." Seeing Song Kangzu's embarrassed expression, Qi Tian knew that the other party would be wrong, and said with a smile: "This song should be sung by a handsome man, so that it can have the momentum in the song!"

Bai Zhijun was taken aback when he heard the words, then his eyes turned, and he bit his white teeth lightly, looking at Song Kangzu curiously.

"Burning with anger, leaning on the railing, resting in the rain."

"Lift our sight, the sky and shouts, grand, vehement"

"..."

"Be from scratch, clean up the old mountains and rivers, overturned Que."

It turned out to be "Manjianghong" by Yue Fei, a famous general of the Song Dynasty against the Jin Dynasty!
"I'm not sure about the specific tune, but I can hum it softly for you." Qi Tian said: "If you can modify it to be more energetic and exciting, you can do it yourself."

"How dare a villain change the lyrics and music of the king without authorization!" Song Kangzu said with trepidation.

"Why can't it be changed? After all, in terms of lyrics and music, you are much more professional than others."

After all, Qi Tian gently hummed the song adapted from Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong" by later generations.

Music has been an indispensable spiritual adjustment product in people's life since ancient times, as well as a work of art for people to entrust their thoughts and feelings, and it is also one of the components of human spiritual civilization.

In addition, all kinds of arts, including music, have certain social value.Music art plays a beneficial role in shaping people's moral sentiment and self-cultivation.At the same time, music can pass through the soul's aesthetic experience of flowing sound, which is a subtle spiritual force and one of the effective means to establish social value orientation.

Hanzhou, the future will definitely be a Chinese country with many Han people as the main ethnic group. In addition to popularizing Han traditions and various scientific and technological knowledge in the country, the most important thing is to establish a unified national culture and unified national values.Strengthen the education of newly arrived immigrants and the popular education of the new generation, so that the overall citizens have a certain sense of belonging and centripetal force towards Hanzhou and Qiguo, and eventually form a new Chinese nation and become a clone of a powerful Han civilization .

One of the simplest and most effective ways is to control national ideology and establish positive and correct national values. Music, or the singing of lyrics and music.For the vast majority of ordinary people who are illiterate, some highly expressive yet easy-to-understand singing of lyrics and music will inevitably touch their hearts, their spirits to their brains, and then arouse resonance.

"Your Majesty's move is just to cultivate and utilize some songwriters to show off our Hanzhou civilization?" Queen Luo Yuru had a strange look on her face.

"What do you think will happen?" Qi Tian held his daughter under one year old in his arms, and looked at Luo Yuru with a half-smile, "Could it be, do you think I will accept Miss Bai into the palace?"

"That Huai businessman dedicated it to you, because he hoped that you...accept her." Luo Yuru's face was a little shocked when Qi Tian told him what was in his heart.

"That Bai girl is also a rare and beautiful woman, but if you accept her, I'm afraid not only you, but even the officials of our country of Qi will probably feel slanderous in their hearts."

"You... you have accepted a woman into the palace, who would dare to slander you?" Luo Yuru giggled, "You are the master of my Hanzhou, the king of Qi."

"The ratio of men to women in the country is seriously unbalanced, and there are many unmarried men who have immigrated for several years. They are still waiting for us to distribute women to them. But their king wants to admit more women into the palace. Embrace the right and enjoy the blessings of being equal to everyone.... This will make people stick a villain in the back!"

"Hehehe..." Luo Yuru couldn't help laughing, "I'm afraid you really want to accept Miss Bai in your heart, but you are afraid that people will say you are licentious!"

"Well, I have such concerns." Qi Tian thought for a while, then nodded seriously and said: "Everyone has the desire to yearn for beautiful things, and also has the desire to possess more beautiful women, especially if they have a certain amount of power and status. Didn’t the ancients say that drunk lying on the knees of a beauty, awakened to hold a murderous sword, don’t ask for a city wall, but a murderous sword!”

"Then why don't you also say the last two sentences, the Huns are not destroyed, so why are you doing your home?"

Hearing this, Luo Yuru looked at her husband with hatred, rolled her eyes, and took her daughter away from Qi Tian's arms.

"As the king of a country, he said such straightforward and shameless words. Don't teach the children badly!"

"I'm telling the truth!" Seeing Luo Yuru leaving with the child in his arms, Qi Tian couldn't help laughing bitterly, "It's just that I can control my desire and temptation for the time being."

(End of this chapter)