The prince does not fight for the heir

When the catkins flew in, Yan Ruhua was reprimanding the little disciple: "This ditty is in a commercial tune, not a palace tune. Your voice is too low, so you have to raise it as a whole. There is also this section, your tempo is wrong. Yes, come back!"

The little disciple feared to be taught, took the sheet music and began to play again.

Only then did Yan Ruhua turn her head to look at Liu Xufei who appeared at the door of the piano room: "Come in, what's the matter with you?" Master Yan, who had an aloof temperament during the performance, was even stricter in private. through.

Finally, Liu Xufei got used to the master's temper, and really felt that the matter was serious, so he didn't retreat timidly, instead went up to greet the master, and first saluted the master: "Xu Fei has met the master."

Yan Ruhua nodded and frowned: "Say something quickly."

"Master, this disciple just got a brand new notation method." Liu Xufei quickly took out a page of numbered notation that he got from Fu Xuechen, and handed it over with both hands.

Yan Ruhua took the numbered notation and glanced at it. At first, she felt that it was full of ghostly symbols, and she couldn't understand it at all.

Liu Xufei stepped forward, starting with the seven basic note symbols, and then going to bass marks, treble marks, beat marks, syllables, etc., explaining the meanings of various symbols used in this numbered musical notation. over again.

In fact, there are not many music symbols involved in the numbered notation, just a few of them can cover everything, no matter how complicated the melody is, it can be completely expressed with these symbols, except for a few Chinese characters expressing the modulation, It does not use any other Chinese characters, and the simplicity and labor-saving writing alone is ten times stronger than the original notation.

Yan Ruhua's expression changed from inadvertent at the beginning to surprise, she raised the numbered notation in her hand, and looked at her apprentice seriously: "This doesn't seem like something you can think of, where did you get it from?" ?”

"Master, didn't you recommend me the day before yesterday to go to Jingbei Marquis Fu's mansion to teach the Fu family's daughter Guzheng?" Liu Xufei was still a little shocked when he said this: "That Miss Fu's talent in rhythm It’s like no one in a hundred years! In just half an hour of teaching, she has learned and mastered all the knowledge of music theory.”

"Huh?" Yan Ruhua frowned, why didn't she realize that Liu Xufei was such an exaggerated person?
Liu Xufei has not yet realized that her reputation in the eyes of her master has dropped sharply, and her tone is still full of admiration for Fu Xuechen: "This method of notation is just something she came up with impromptu for the convenience of learning and memorizing!"

Yan Ruhua carefully observed her apprentice's expression, and was puzzled to find that although the other party's expression was a bit exaggerated, it didn't look like he was lying, but was very sincere, and she really felt that he was amazing.

But as far as she knew, the young daughter of the Fu family who was studying guzheng was at most thirteen years old, and the people of the Fu family even said that the daughter of their family had never learned any rhythm knowledge before.

Now you tell me, that's a genius?Not only did he learn all the knowledge of music theory in a single lesson, but he also created a new type of music notation that is simpler and more direct, and allows people to master the rhythm faster?Why is she so unbelievable!
"Master, do you think we should give it a try and use this method to record scores instead?" Liu Xufei finally suggested that she really wanted to rewrite all the scores she had in hand with this new method.

"As long as that daughter of the Fu family does not object, you can use it if you want." Yan Ruhua glanced at her, and said lightly: "Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, you will continue to teach that little daughter according to your plan. Arbitrary, after only one lesson, he was identified as a genius, observe and observe more, so as not to be mistaken!"

Liu Xufei didn't think she would be misjudged, so let's just say, learning the guzheng is just a hobby for the daughter of a dignified houfu, and it's just for cultivating one's sentiments. What's the point of lying to her if she doesn't rely on it for food at all?
But Liu Xufei didn't dare to disobey his master, so he obediently answered "yes".

Seeing her listening to the teaching, Yan Ruhua nodded and said: "You go back! Keep this score with me first, remember not to spread this unproven private notation method lightly."

Liu Xufei agreed, as long as the master is willing to keep the score for study, it means that the master also thinks the new score is good, and she believes that it will not take long before the master can't help but agree to use this simplified score to replace the previous Chinese character score.

After being busy with all kinds of affairs throughout the day, Yan Ruhua, who has no performance tasks, is rarely able to stay at home and enjoy a moment of tranquility of her own.

Leaning on the comfortable and soft imperial concubine's couch, she picked up the script that she hadn't finished reading after many days. Yan Ruhua planned to read the rest of the script before going to bed, but when she opened the script where the bookmark was located, On that page, a casual glance made her sit up straight suddenly, and turned the book carefully.

Nothing else, just that the footer of each page of this storybook is marked with a symbol expressing the page number. She never paid special attention to these symbols before, and it was just a symbol made by the bookstore for her own typesetting. But she recognized it just now, and some of these symbols are exactly the same as the numbered notation symbols Liu Xufei left her!
Seven new-style phonetic symbols, 1234567, Liu Xufei sang them as "Duo La Mi Fa Suo La Xi", and a symbol 0 that means rest, plus 8 and 9 that are in the storybook but not in numbered musical notation , Yan Ruhua suddenly realized, she actually understood the meaning of these symbols on the footer of the script!

If she is not mistaken, 1 is the number one, 012345678910, which clearly represents the numbers zero to ten!Then 11 is eleven, 12 is twelve... 20 is twenty, absolutely right!

It turns out that this is where the inspiration for the young daughter of the Fu family to come up with the new music notation recording method came from!
After understanding the page numbers and symbols on the storybook, Yan Ruhua couldn't help flipping through the storybook, and specifically identified these numbers and symbols two or three times, the more she looked at it, the more amazing it became!

Compared with the original number writing method, the new number symbols in this script are too easy to recognize, memorize and master!I'm afraid that even five or six-year-old children can easily learn these numbers.

Yan Ruhua thought of the musical notation 1234567 made by the daughter of the Fu family.

If the little girl had learned and mastered these number symbols in the script, then it would not be completely unimaginable for her to create new musical notation symbols based on them at a young age.

Maybe he is a smart genius, not what he thinks, he plagiarized something from someone.

etc!The circulation of story books is very large. As long as they can read and have a good family background, people will buy some story books as a pastime. It is impossible to say that only the daughter of the Fu family and her Yan Ruhua discovered that the page numbers in the story book corresponded to each other. It is the numbers zero to nine, and there must be many people who also understand these new number symbols.

In that case, when more and more people are familiar with these digital symbols and use them, she wants to promote the new music notation recording method based on digital symbols, wouldn't it be more effective with half the effort?
Yan Ruhua gradually became excited, but she didn't know that Emperor Yuan'an had ordered the Ministry of Rites to do preparatory work to promote the use of simplified Chinese characters, and that set of simplified characters contained the new set of number symbols 012645789.

But she has her own judgment. Such a simple and easy-to-use number symbol can easily be recognized and loved by people. With the release of the storybook, it will be popularized and adopted by more people sooner or later.

"Yinger! Yinger!" Yan Ruhua called out to her personal servant girl loudly.

"Miss, I'm here." Ying'er quickly appeared outside her bedroom door: "Miss, what are your orders?"

"Call over the little girl I took in last month, call it Xiaowan."

Ying'er was slightly surprised by Yan Ruhua's instructions, but she didn't ask any further questions, she just went away, and soon brought a thin, sallow girl of seven or eight years old from the next room.

The little girl's father, Yan Ruhua, does not know who it is, but the little girl's mother is a good friend Yan Ruhua met in Jiaofang when she was young. That good friend was married back to be a concubine. I thought it would be a happy ending, but unexpectedly The man's family fortune declined quickly, and he was unable to revive his family business, so he finally abandoned the good friend, mother and daughter, and slipped back to his hometown.

At the beginning of the year, her best friend died of illness, and the little girl was unable to go all the way to join her biological father, so she had to follow her mother's advice before she died, and asked Yan Ruhua to come to Yan Ruhua's door. At home, how to settle this little girl in the future, she has not yet found a good plan.

"Xiao Wan met Aunt Yan!" Although the little girl was small, she knew how to be polite, even if she was a little timid.

"Don't be afraid, Xiaowan, Auntie just wants to ask you something." Yan Ruhua tried her best not to look so cold, showing a kind smile to the child.

Xiaowan nodded seriously: "Auntie, ask."

"Have you ever learned to recognize music scores? Has your mother ever taught you how to sing?" Yan Ruhua asked.

Xiaowan's expression collapsed, and she shook her head: "No, Mom has only hummed songs to me, but never taught me to sing."

"It's okay!" Yan Ruhua asked softly, "Then, will Auntie teach you?"

Xiao Wan raised her head, her eyes lit up, and she nodded vigorously: "Okay! Okay! Thank you, Auntie!"

"Okay, then Auntie will teach you the seven phonetic symbols first!" Yan Ruhua took Xiao Wan to the table, wrote down 1234567 seven numbers on the paper, and began to teach...

Two quarters of an hour passed quickly, and Yan Ruhua was surprised to find that Xiao Wan quickly learned and mastered the seven phonetic symbols in this short period of time, and with the help of doremi, shrieking and laxi, seven different phonetic symbols Pronunciation, even after Yan Ruhua messed up the order of the seven phonetic symbols, she can still sing the corresponding tune accurately.

Even though they were all short and simple tunes with no change in key or tempo, Xiao Wan learned them too fast!Surprisingly fast!

Yan Ruhua then taught the treble with small black dots on the top, the bass with small black dots on the bottom, and the barlines representing the beat. Xiao Wan also mastered them smoothly after a while.

At this moment, Xiaowan has just started to learn, and she doesn't know a few words. According to past experience, Xiaowan should have learned a lot of Chinese characters first. Without Chinese characters as a foundation, she would not be able to learn music at all.

"Auntie, is it so easy to learn the tune? Why didn't mother teach me?" Xiao Wan was both happy and confused.

"..." Yan Ruhua was speechless, what should she say?Tell Xiaowan, in fact, she just met the music notation of this set of scores today?If Xiao Wan's mother wants to teach her, she must first teach her to recognize the characters such as Gongchifan?
"Maybe your mother hasn't had time yet?"

In the end, Yan Ruhua had no choice but to prevaricate with other reasons, and drove Xiao Wan back to her own room to rest on the grounds that it was too late and the children had to go to bed early.

Although Xiao Wan can learn it so quickly, it is because she probably has a very good temperament talent. It is an example. Yan Ruhua recognized the power of this set of numbered notation, she gradually felt the weight of this notation that was light in her hands.

Xiao Wan's success also made her realize many things that she hadn't realized before.

Not to mention anything else, but among the many people engaged in temperament-related occupations in the country, how many of them can read and read music?The vast majority of the common people have no chance of literacy at all. Many of them can sing tunes or operas, and they really rely on memorizing them year after year!
There is an idiom called "passing on word of mouth", which originally originated from the teaching and inheritance method of quyi. The older generation of quyi masters pass on the tunes they have mastered to their disciples. If you don’t know, or if you don’t know both sides, then you can only teach sentence by sentence and memorize sentence by rote.

But if there is the newly released numbered notation method, even unliterate Mongolian children can easily learn it. Do those old folks still need to be afraid that their disciples will be illiterate, forgetful, and lose their inheritance?No need!
Just because there is no need for literacy, the merits created by the new musical notation are enormous!
The more Yan Ruhua thought about it, the more she couldn't sit still, and then she thought that her little disciple had a weak memory during the day, and he admitted that he had made a mistake in composing the wrong zither song, so he simply went back to the table, took a new pen and paper, and slowly, a little At one point, I tried to transcribe all the zither music scores that I taught my young disciples during the day into new-style scores.

It is also an aspect that needs to be investigated whether people who have already learned Chinese notation can adapt well and quickly master new-style notation.

The time soon came to the next morning, and Yan Ruhua's two future disciples called to him, and it took half an hour to teach them the symbols of numbered musical notation.

The fact is a bit unexpected. The two disciples who already had a foundation in rhythm learned the new score very smoothly. After they were familiar with and mastered the symbols of the seven digital phonetic names, they understood other musical notes more quickly. It's only a quarter of an hour, and both of them know it.

Only then did Yan Ruhua take out the zither score transcribed last night, and asked the two disciples to try to recognize the score while playing.

Although it was slightly jerky and far from being aesthetically pleasing, the two disciples bounced it off accurately without exception!This surprised both of them, and they praised the new score for being so easy to recognize and remember.

Yan Ruhua nodded secretly, it seems that the new score should be vigorously promoted.

On the other hand, Fu Xuechen didn't know how the numbered musical notation she produced would shock the musicians. She was still taking Zhu Jiuniang's painting class!Then I received a message from Mrs. Xie: The imperial concubine invited Mrs. Xie to the palace to enjoy the flowers, and by the way she and Fu Rushuang's two sisters were also invited. She has to tell the gentlemen that she is going to leave tomorrow!