In this age of information explosion, who hasn't heard a few sacred songs.
Whether you are walking on the street, or open the phone, as long as there is background music exists, we can enjoy the effect of 3D surround every day.
For example, this super god song of 2019, one, two, three, go:
"Sen Lei Di Fa, wo want yo bring Lei back to Karma in that late-night dog bar, spicy tube he is gold department Karma ......"
Many people listened to this
Many people have listened to this song and said that the song goes around the beam for three days, which makes people not think about their meals, and make them restless and hard to sit up and stand still.
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And the more you try to get it to stop, the harder it sings.
From "Seaweed Dance" and "Learning to Catcall" to the Northeast-plus-Cantonese-flavored "Coyote Disco" and the jitterbug softie "Dada Houshengzai," these mouthfuls of songs that have been held up as sacred are almost as hot as the one that came out.
Is the song toxic, or is it just out of its own league?
Why do we love sacred songs so much?
There are songs you clearly haven't heard in their entirety, but they go round and round like the magic of love, on a single loop in your head.
"You are my little ah little apple
How to love you is not too much
Red little face warms my heart
Light up the fire of my life ......"
"The boundless sky is my love
Flowers are blooming at the foot of the sheer green mountains
What kind of rhythm is the most ah most swinging
What kind of song is the most cheerful ......"
Why can't we stop when we sing the the song, we can't stop singing it?
Phoenix Legend
Shengyu tends to use the most easily catchy melody, so that the person listening to the sensory stimulation, sensory stimulation of the dimensions of each increase in a kind of pleasure will be doubled.
So, listening to brainwashing Shenqi is like eating spicy food, the more you eat, the more you get high, and you can't control yourself at all.
But don't worry, it's not a disease.
According to studies, 98% of us have experienced brainwashing by God's music, and we get brainwashed by God's music at least once a week.
Also, women are more likely to be brainwashed than men.
So you know why the aunts and grandmothers in your neighborhood love square dancing, right?
Popularity is not vulgarity, let alone vulgarity
During the Warring States period, someone sang in the city of Chu, and when he began to sing "Lower Li Ba Ren," there were as many as 1,000 people in the audience who were able to sing along;
and then he sang "Yangling Caiwei," which was sung by only a few hundred; and then he sang "Yangchun Baixue," which was sung by only a few dozen people who were able to sing along.
The phenomenon of "the music is high, the harmony is low" has been around for a long time, and the more elegant the art form, the smaller the audience, and on the other hand, the popular and grounded, the audience will naturally be more.
The threshold of pop songs is the lowest, and I don't mean to belittle it. There are a lot of classics in pop songs, and the so-called "low threshold" refers to their popularity, which is inevitable because they are popular.
However, popularity is not vulgarity, let alone vulgarity.
If it's just catchy, it's still tolerable, but some of the internet songs are just too low, vowing to be the "prettiest boy" in the crowd.
Randomly take out a few lines to give you a taste:
We learn to catcall together, together with meow meow meow meow ~ (sounds no problem)
Front child where to come to the big manhole cover, I take the foot to step in ~ (I respect you are a man)
Your smile like a vicious dog, bumping my heartstrings ~ (the bottom line of the ancient style in the)
Look at! These lyrics, there is indeed a reason for the fire, after all, "the text is like looking at the mountain is not like flat", three-eyed monster is always more appealing than the two-eyed passer-by.
No wonder there is now a buzzword called "ugly", too much want to be new and different, eye-catching, and gradually lost the lower line, they began to ugly for beauty, superficiality for beauty.
What's scary is that this kind of deformed aesthetics is still so marketable, and it seems that Chinese music aesthetics have been replaced by low?
In response to this phenomenon, some people believe that it is because Chinese people from ancient times to the present day have no musical cells.
And China's ancient people said, "We won't take the blame!
Chinese musical genes
In the 1980s, a batch of bone flutes were unearthed in Jiahu Village, Maoyang County, Henan Province, the earliest of which was more than 9,000 years old and was able to play a complete pentatonic scale.
It seems that China's claim to a long history of 5,000 years is inaccurate, as the Chinese have been able to trace their history of playing music alone back 9,000 years.
During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou instituted a system of rituals and music, and since then, music has not only symbolized personal cultivation, but also embodied the country's etiquette, which has given rise to China's nickname "The State of Rituals and Music".
Confucius regarded music as the highest standard for a gentleman, and successive founding kings made the development of rituals and music one of their top priorities.
In addition to the official ceremonial music, each era has its own unique musical style.
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such as the ancient period of music and dance, the Zhou dynasty of elegant music, the Spring and Autumn period of the "Zheng Wei voice"; Qin, Han, Sui and Tang dynasties, and began to popularize the hundred plays and songs and dances; the Song dynasty of the song lyrics, rapping; the Yuan dynasty of the miscellaneous plays, loose songs; Ming and Qing dynasties of secular songs.
It seems far-fetched to say that a civilization that attaches so much importance to music has not had musical cells since ancient times! In fact, not only do we have musical cells, but we have utilized them to the fullest extent.
We grew up memorizing the national classics, such as the pre-Qin Dynasty's "Poetry Scripture" and "Chu Ci", the Han Dynasty's "Lefu Poetry", and then the most popular Tang Dynasty poetry, Song Dynasty lyrics, and Yuan Dynasty compositions, which are regarded as the classic forms of literature throughout the ages, were all songs at the beginning of their birth.
Taking the Book of Songs as an example, the Book of Songs is a collection of songs from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period, in which the "winds," "elegance," and "ode" are folk songs, court songs, and ritual songs of the Zhou Dynasty, respectively. The "Feng", "Ya" and "Ode" are respectively the folk songs, court songs and ritual songs of the Zhou Dynasty.
Confucius once said, "The chaos of Guan Ju, the ocean is full of ears!" It is the climax of the song "Guan Ju" that is praised for its rich sound, which seems to fill the ears.
During the Tang and Song dynasties, the poems of the literati were widely loved, and were sung by songstresses and musicians, so many literati had close dealings with musicians.
Bai Juyi's famous poem "Flower is not a flower, mist is not a mist" describes her honesty in her dealings with a songstress;
Bai Juyi in movies and TV dramas
Du Fu's famous poem "Meeting Li Guinian in the South of the Yangtze River" is a reflection of the deep friendship between the literati and the musicians.
The lack of a way to preserve sound in ancient times led to these songs eventually becoming purely literary forms, and those famous songwriters, too, were reduced to being literati.
In fact, songs were not the only kind of music that ancient literati were associated with!
Nowadays, the qin, chess, calligraphy and painting are often used to measure the cultural cultivation of a literati, why the "four arts of literati" put the guqin in the first place? Because in ancient times, it was said that "a scholar should not play the qin and sepulcher for no reason", and the literati needed to use the neutral and peaceful sound of the guqin to cultivate their bodies and cultivate their sentiments.
There were many typical literati zither players during the Wei and Jin dynasties, such as Jikang, Ruanji, Cai Wenji, etc. The representative zither songs were "Guangling San", "Wine Madness" and "Hu Jia 18 Beats".
Tao Yuanming in the same period, even if he could not understand the rhythm, he also put a "stringless zither" at home, and every time he got drunk, he would take it out and play with it, to support his feelings.
Where are the ancestral musical genes
Strange, we have such a long history of musical roots, so brilliant musical achievements, why today's music is going down the drain?
Leaving aside the lackluster Internet songs, even if there are some classics, most of them are copied from the West, such as the popular rock, rap and country styles, with very few of the original traditional styles appearing.
Nowadays, there is no lack of people who worship the foreigners, advocating how western music is, how the five-line score is, how the meter is, in fact, we are proud of our own music score and meter achievements.
The earliest surviving sheet music in China is a hand-copied version of the Nanliang text score "Jieshi Tune - Yu Lan" by a Tang Dynasty man, which means that sheet music already appeared in China at least in the period of Nanliang (502-557), and the minuscule sheet music tailored to the guqin by Cao Rou in the Tang Dynasty is still in use until now.
As for meter, as early as the Spring and Autumn period, the "Three-point Loss and Gain Law," which uses mathematical calculations to find meter, was already recorded in the "Guanzi (The Book of Guan Zi)" (管子-地员篇).
Ming Dynasty's royal aristocrat, Zhu Yuanzhang's ninth grandson Zhu Zaiyu is the first calculation of the "twelve average law", this initiative in the field of music is what concept? To put it plainly, there is no "twelve equal temperament", the emergence of the piano is just a distant dream.
Where have the musical genes of our ancestors gone? Is the development of our own music a copy of the West?
Of course, there is nothing wrong with borrowing the best of Western music to develop our modern music for the sake of our own growth, but there is always a misconception that "modern" must be opposed to "traditional". "The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California, Berkeley.
As a result, many young people have begun to isolate themselves from tradition, or even to reject it, thinking that a funky rap on their lips will make them look good, regardless of the cheap tunes and cringe-worthy lyrics.
In the final analysis, we are now a little lost in the impact of foreign culture, leaving behind tradition and seeking the new, and over time, the basic cultural qualities have been lost, leaving a pile of strange and empty shells.
Thousands of years ago, pipa, erhu, suona was also imported, however, the ancient people in the fusion of the national music tradition on the basis of their integration and innovation, and ultimately, from the "outsiders" to become the roots of the national musical instruments.
Innovation needs to be built on the basis of inheritance, and the absorption of foreign cultures is even more so, without the tradition as the basis of the new, can not be avoided to return to the commonplace.
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