This was the profoundness of the Chinese language!
It was just one word, but the meaning was like heaven and earth.
Facing Cheng Youlan's question, Su Ming nodded solemnly." Yes, I've heard of it.”
What he didn't say was that he had not only heard it before, but he also knew the song. Of course, that was if he didn't count the three bird calls.
But even so, it was enough to shock Cheng Youlan.
"Among all kinds of musical instruments, the suona is king. When the suona sounded, hundreds of birds paid homage to the phoenix!
Su Ming, you…Where did you hear this song? When this song was played, there was really a phenomenon of birds descending?!”
Su Ming smiled." Actually, it's not as mysterious as the legends say. You should know that the earliest use of Chinese instruments was not for performance, but for hunting.”
Cheng Youlan was worthy of being the dean of the folk music faculty. She instantly understood what Su Ming meant." Indeed, the bone flute and bone whistle from thousands of years ago were first used for hunting.
Imitating the cries of animals to attract their own kind, making it easier to kill prey.”
"Yes!" Su Ming replied," It's the same for all birds to pay homage to the phoenix. Because the pronunciation of the suona is special, the whistle of the suona is placed in the mouth. The shape of the tongue and the type of air used to blow it will cause the sound of the suona to change.
Therefore, they could imitate the sounds of all kinds of birds. If they could imitate the sounds too vividly, they could also figure out the meaning of the birds 'calls. The birds would gather together as if they were their companions.
This was why there was the so-called phenomenon of hundreds of birds flying and phoenixes chirping.”
Cheng Youlan was speechless. What a beautiful song!
Today was really an eye-opener!
At the same time, he was also glad to have met such a suona craftsman in his lifetime.
Looking at the time, the two of them had been chatting for nearly half an hour. However, he was still reluctant to let Su Ming leave, so he quickly continued asking.
"Su Ming, can you tell me where you heard the song?”
Su Ming thought for a moment and said," When I was young, I heard an old suona craftsman play it. He only learned this song when he was sixty-two years old.”
Cheng Youlan's eyes were burning with passion." Legend has it that the real song of all birds paying homage to the phoenix is a song of great sorrow!
Only the venerable dead deserve to enjoy it, right?”
" Yes…" Su Ming nodded." There are three types of tasks for our suona class.
Four suona, called four, ordinary people could afford it.
Four suona, plus an erhu, flute, sheng, drum, or cymbal, called eight sets. In the past, only wealthy families could afford to hire them. The scene was bigger, and the musicians were more expensive.
As for the hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix, only the old suona craftsman could play it within a few hundred miles. Only the truly respected dead were worthy of enjoying this song.”
Cheng Youlan was extremely fascinated." The idiom 'all birds pay homage to the phoenix' is used to describe a person of high moral standing. For the Chinese people to be able to develop such a song, can you tell me about the time you heard it?"
What kind of person was the deceased?”
After saying that, Cheng Youlan felt a little embarrassed. She was the one looking for Su Ming.
In the end, he had to ask Su Ming for advice.
The old suona craftsman that Su Ming mentioned was none other than his master.
The reason why he hid it from Cheng Youlan was that he was afraid of attracting too much attention. Moreover, this song had an extraordinary meaning. In the past, the old master had offended someone by refusing to play this song for others. Now that the old master was old, it was difficult for him to play the suona. He had specially instructed Su Ming to keep a low profile when he was outside.
He probably felt embarrassed that he had kept this matter from Cheng Youlan, so he was a little more patient." I was still very young at that time, so I don't remember it clearly, but I heard someone talk about it later.
That person had experienced a fire when he was young. Other than himself, his family was gone. He grew up eating a hundred families 'food.
His face was severely burned. After he recovered, his face was very scary. Even children were afraid to see him.
After growing up, in order to repay his kindness, he would give all the good things to one family or another. He did not marry a wife in his life and did not save anything.
He didn't care about having no children or descendants, but he would occasionally joke that no one would send him off when he died.
When he was sixty years old, a few human traffickers came and kidnapped a total of six children from four nearby villages.
He had found out. At that time, it was too late to call for help, so he had to fight the human trafficker barehanded.
The five children were saved by him alone. His body was also full of holes from the human traffickers 'knives.
When the villagers rushed over, he took his last breath…"
At this point, Su Ming picked up the cup and looked out the window." I heard that on the day he was buried, the six children he saved were his descendants.
The four villages, regardless of age, were all wearing mourning clothes.
It was also during that funeral that the old suona craftsman sat on the armchair and played the rare song of birds paying homage to the phoenix.
At that time, it was early spring. Birds were flying and chirping like phoenixes…"
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