What are the top ten ancient Chinese songs?
China's top ten ancient classical songs "High Mountains and Flowing Water", "Spring River Flowers and Moonlight Night", "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms", "Hu Jia Eighteen Pat", "Ten Faces Ambush", "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace", "Guangling Powder", "Sun Spring and White Snow", "Fisherman's Questions and Answers", "Pingsha Falling Goose". Just listening to these names has already been won by God, and the beauty of Chinese charm can be seen from this.
1. High mountains and flowing water
Legend has it that Boya, a piano master in the pre-Qin Dynasty, once played the piano in the barren mountains and wilderness, and the woodcutter Zhong Ziqi could actually understand that this was a description of "the majestic ambition is in the mountains" and "the ocean is in the flowing water". Boya said in surprise: "Good, the heart of the son is with me." After the death of Ziqi, Boya lost his soulmate, broke the strings of the piano, and did not exercise for life, so there was a song of mountains and flowing water.
2. Spring River Flower Moon Night
The original name is "Sunset Xiao Drum", which has a profound artistic conception and a long musical sound. Later, it was renamed after the famous Tang poem "Spring River Flower Moon Night". "Sunset Xiao Drum" is a famous traditional pipa melody, which has long been passed down in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
3. Three lanes of plum blossoms
"Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms" is a guqin piece adapted from a flute. The overtone tune in the piece is repeated three times on different emblem positions, so it is called "Three Alleys". The whole piece expresses the noble character of plum blossoms that are white and proud of snow. According to legend, Jin Huan Yi composed the flute "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms", which was later transferred to piano music. The music praises people with noble sentiments by praising the tenacious character of plum blossoms who are not afraid of frost and fight snow in the wind.
4. Ambush on all sides
"Ambush on All Sides" is a traditional set of martial music for the famous pipa, formerly known as "Chu and Han" in the Ming Dynasty. It describes the scene of the final battle of the Chu-Han War in Haixia in 202 BC. Xiang Yu killed himself in Wujiang, and Liu Bang won.
5. Autumn Moon in the Han Palace
"Autumn Moon in the Han Palace" was originally a pipa music of Chongming school, but now there are a variety of notation books, which have evolved from one musical instrument score to different notation books, and use their own artistic means to recreate to shape different musical images. This is a common situation in the circulation of folk instrumental music. The current performance forms of "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace" include Erhu music, pipa music, ancient kite music, Jiangnan silk bamboo, etc. It mainly expresses the sorrowful emotions of ancient palace maids and a helpless, lonely and cold life mood.
6. Sunny spring and white snow
"Yangchun Baixue" is a pipa divergence composed of multiple variants of the folk instrumental music card instrument "Eight Plates" (or "Six Plates"). According to legend, it was written by Shikuang of Jin State or Liu Chuanzi of Qi State in the Spring and Autumn Period. "Yangchun" means that all things know spring, and the wind cleans it, and "Snow" means the sound of being clean and snow bamboo.
7. Yuqiao Q & A
"Yuqiao Question and Answer" is a famous guqin song that has been passed down for hundreds of years. "The rise and fall of ancient and modern times are like the palm of the hand, but the green mountains and green waters are solid. A thousand years of right and wrong, all pay for the words of Yuqiao". This song reflects the yearning of a reclusive person for the life of a fisherman and a woodsman, hoping to get rid of the fetters of the mundane world. The music is vivid and accurate.
8. Hu Jia eighteen beats
"Hu Jia Eighteen Beats" was originally a piano song, which is said to have been written by Cai Wenji. It is a vocal suite composed of 18 songs, accompanied by the piano, which expresses Wen Ji's homesickness, ion's sadness and vast grievances. Now the piano music is the most widely circulated.
9. Guangling powder
"Guangling San", Guqin song, also known as "Guangling Stop". According to the records in "Warring States Policy" and "Historical Records", the Korean minister Yan Zhongzi had a feud with the prime minister Xia Lei, while Nie Zheng was friendly with Yan Zhongzi. He assassinated Han Xiang for Yan Zhongzi, reflecting a sentiment of "a scholar dies for a confidant". This is a relatively common view, and the title of this song in "Magic and Secret Score" is derived from this story.
According to "Qin Cao" records: Nie Zheng was a Korean during the Warring States Period. His father was killed by the King of Han because he broke the deadline for forging swords. Nie Zheng failed to avenge his father's assassination, but after he knew that the King of Han was happy, he was disfigured and went to the mountains to study piano skills for more than 10 years. When he returned to Korea with a stunt, no one knew him. So, when he found an opportunity to enter the palace to play the piano for the King of Han, he pulled a dagger from the belly of the piano and stabbed the King of Han to death. Of course, he himself died a heroic death.
10. Pingsha Fallen Goose
"Pingsha Falling Goose" is a guqin melody, melodious and smooth, through the sound of geese, describing the scene of geese circling in the sky before landing.
