Guqin, also known as the lyre, Qin Yu, Stone and lyre, is a traditional musical instrument in China with a history of at least 3,000 years. So what are the benefits of children learning guqin? Let me introduce you!
1 Stimulate children's love for traditional culture
In the long historical stage of ancient China society, Qin, Qi, calligraphy and painting have always been regarded as the only way for literati to cultivate themselves. Guqin, with its clear, harmonious, light and elegant musical character, embodies a lofty and detached attitude towards life of the literati Ling Feng. Playing the flute and playing the piano, reciting poems and painting, climbing high and traveling far, and singing wine songs have become a vivid portrayal of literati life.
"Qin, love also; Offenders are prohibited. " Playing the piano and enjoying music are the highest realm of gentleman's cultivation, and the unity of man and music embodies a peaceful and honest manner. In the era of Confucius, Qin music was not only the personal cultivation and enjoyment of later gentlemen, but also the sacred music to accommodate heaven and earth and educate the people. In Yu Qin's music, Confucius heard the voice of King Wen Sheng, and Shi Kuang heard the voice of the subjugation of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The ancients believed that the weather of heaven and earth was contained in it, and people worshipped it and gave it moral belief.
As a kind of "pronunciation", Qin Le embodies China's orthodoxy and culture for thousands of years. Guqin left us many touching stories: Boya played the piano and met a bosom friend; Zhuo Wenjun expressed his love with Qin; Ji Kang was facing death, and he also played a song "Guangling San"; An empty city cleverly designed by Zhuge Liang, his leisurely piano sound, the story of Sima Yi's defeat of 100 thousand troops, the story of Tao Yuanming playing strings and so on. , have been sung through the ages. Liu Yuxi, a scholar in the Tang Dynasty, outlined a picture for us in his famous book "Humble Room Inscription": "You can tune the pipa and read the Golden Classics. The indifferent realm of "no confusing ears, no complicated work" Guqin is widely recognized by people. Three of the four classic novels have a clear description of it. Ancient poetry, history books, novels, operas, paintings and antique porcelain are all inextricably linked with guqin.
It can be seen that guqin is closely related to the traditional culture of China, such as Qin, chess, books, paintings, poems and essays. While learning guqin, children will also participate in these aspects of understanding, laying a solid foundation for further study of traditional culture in the future.
It is helpful to learn Chinese characters.
Guqin often uses a notation, which is characterized by memorizing finger positions and playing skills with left and right hands. Because it combines the fingering and terminology of Guqin's character spectrum, it is named "Minus Spectrum". Subtraction spectrum is actually fingering spectrum. The Guqin Zipu, founded by the pianist Cao Rou in the late Tang Dynasty, was restored from the Zipu. This notation is to record fingering by pressing strings with the left hand, and to play fingering with the right hand is to spell subtraction words into some symbols. It is a notation that only records the playing method and pitch, but not the name and rhythm. Its characteristics are "concise, concise and fluent". Subtraction notation is a major reform of notation, and it is an ancient notation that has been used for thousands of years and has not been replaced.
The spectral words of subtraction spectrum are mostly composed of right-handed fingering, left-handed fingering and general terms. There are eight basic fingering methods for the right hand, commonly known as "four fingers and eight fingers", that is, the corpse (split) palm (support) of the thumb, the wooden palm (wipe) palm (pick) of the index finger, the hook (hook) hook (easy) of the middle finger and the ding palm of the ring finger. Other fingering methods are actually composed of eight variations. Fingering with the left hand mainly includes: one (Yin), one (Yan), no (poke), lift (note), up, down, clip (Jin Fu), root (hot compress) and lattice (one).
Some people think that children have poor understanding ability and it is difficult to understand ancient genealogy. In fact, children began to know the radicals in the first grade, and it is easy to understand these ancient genealogies. Subtraction spectrum mostly selects a radical of Chinese characters to represent fingering. Therefore, children know these subtractive chromatograms, which is also beneficial to the understanding of Chinese characters.
By practicing guqin instead of music teaching and entertaining, children's thirst for knowledge and love for traditional culture will be further stimulated. In the process of learning Chinese classics, children can adjust their body and mind and cultivate a quiet and peaceful attitude by practicing guqin, which can be said to complement each other. After children master the fingering and skills of guqin, they will gradually understand the contents of guqin with the improvement of their cultural level.
3 Develop intelligence and cultivate temperament
Guqin music is mainly influenced by Confucianism's thoughts of harmony, softness and softness, and Taoism's thoughts of conforming to nature, laughing loudly and being simple and elegant, with the characteristics of harmony, elegance and simplicity and lightness. Because the shape, timbre, theme, connotation and structure of its musical instruments are closely related to the traditional culture of China, its musical style tends to be static, simple, implicit, plain, gentle, lyrical and elegant. Therefore, learning guqin can calm children's lively and active hearts, cultivate their inner temperament from an early age, awaken their inner temperament and inspiration, and let them have a deeper feeling and experience of the world and life.
The human brain is divided into two parts. The left hemisphere is responsible for language processing and grammatical expression, such as words, syntax, naming, reading, writing, learning and memory. Spatial skills are related to the right hemisphere, such as perception of three-dimensional shapes, spatial orientation, self-dressing ability, music appreciation and singing. It can be considered that the left hemisphere is scientific and the right hemisphere is artistic. Simply put, there are many thoughts in the left brain canal and many movements and arts in the right brain canal. For example, learning guqin must make full use of two parts of the brain. When practicing guqin, you should move your right hand, pick, hook, wipe ... your left hand, sing and pluck, and pay attention to ... your left and right hands need to be coordinated, your eyes need to look at the music score, your ears need to listen to the pitch, and you need to remember the music score in your head. It can be said that you are really multitasking. At this time, the left and right hemispheres of the brain are mobilized, the left brain and the right brain work at the same time, and thinking and action are mobilized. This is the best exercise and balance of brain kinetic energy. In this multitasking state, you can no longer be distracted by other things, which is also of great benefit to cultivating people's concentration. What's more, guqin is usually played at night, which is in line with the style and artistic conception of guqin music and does not affect children's learning. In the process of learning guqin day after day, children will eventually achieve the goal of "God is at ease and everything is quiet". Jade refers to the ice string, and the business intention of the palace has been passed down to this day. Sad and romantic, write a few eternal meanings. Back to the realm of sleepless nights, the sound of the night is in my ear.
Master a skill
At present, many children want to learn a specialty for many purposes. If you want to take an art major and learn an art in a short time, you can't do it without a foundation. Specialty is not necessarily a hobby, it is a skill, which needs a long time to accumulate and precipitate, and six or seven months is enough to get started. Guqin, as a skill, allows children to master a skill from an early age. Through years of unremitting study, it will be helpful to the future entrance examination, career development and life. Qin, chess, calligraphy and painting were once the four skills that ancient China literati were proud of, and they were also the four arts. Among them, Qin Le is the oldest and longest-lasting form of instrumental music in the history of China. Children who learn piano well from childhood will benefit for life.
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