It is certain that a princely palace with a long history like Lu Fan has a similar etiquette and music team to the Forbidden City.
But Zhang Dai, who likes music and drama, mentioned to Zheng Haizhu that there are two completely different classes of musicians in the prince's palace.
The music and dance students who presided over the ceremonial music had a much higher status than ordinary music households, and they might even be talented students themselves.
At this moment, Zheng Haizhu saw that the man holding the piano in front of him had a vaguely proud and solitary attitude of a scholar. The words and sentences he opened his mouth were not only not arrogant, but also had a critical flavor unique to scribes. As expected, he agreed with what Zhang Dai said. , most music and dance students are scholars.
His surname is Zhu, could it be that he was selected from distant relatives in the clan?
"I've met Mr. Zhu." Zheng Haizhu gave a brief salute, but was not ready to continue to answer the other person's words, and the corners of his mouth were also flat.
A simple principle is that if I have a dispute with my own family members, how can I criticize him as an outsider like you in the blink of an eye?
"Study makes me stupid". It's not your turn to give these five words to Lu Xiangsheng.
In the setting sun, Zhu Yuewen noticed Zheng Haizhu's indifference, so he wiped away the harshness in his previous tone and explained calmly: "I came here to observe the ancient pines, and I didn't mean to eavesdrop."
"Sir, there is no need to say anything more. The pine has been cleaned. Sir, you can watch the pine and play the harp. I'll take my leave."
Zhu Yuewen returned the gift with his qin in his arms, went to sit under one of the ancient pine trees, and raised his hand to pluck the strings.
Zheng Haizhu had already turned around and left. When he could distinguish the music that hit his ears, he stopped.
When Wang Yuesheng was still alive, Zheng Haizhu often listened to her playing the piano. Even though he was a layman of musical instruments, he could immediately tell at this moment that the quality of the piano sound played by Zhu Yuesheng was wrong.
Moreover, although Zheng Haizhu cannot play the guqin, after all, he has a basic understanding of the heptatonic scale of modern people. He quickly heard that Zhu Yuewen was playing a heptatonic scale, which is different from the pentatonic scale of plucked instruments such as the guqin. no the same.
Zheng Haizhu turned back and stopped in front of Zhu Yuewen. This time he took a closer look and finally saw clearly that his piano was indeed unusual.
The panel is wide, with curvatures at the top and bottom. There are two rows of holes for strings in the center, and a row of wild goose pillars not far away on the left and right.
There are wild goose pillars, which is obviously not a harp but a zither, but the zither is not that small, and the zithers are opposite to each other, clearly like two zithers in one.
As Zhu Yuewen's fingers flicked out the two higher octaves, Zheng Haizhu felt his heart beat faster.
No way? Could this person be...
"Are you playing the Twelve Equal Temperature?" Zheng Haizhu asked blurtly.
When the sound of the piano stopped, Zhu Yuewen raised his head and expressed surprise: "What is the equal temperament?"
Zheng Haizhu suddenly smiled at his own imagination.
This Le Wusheng was an ancient aborigine. He thought too much, and in the flash of lightning, he actually thought he was a musician from time travel.
But that's not right. When he played this strange instrument, he was clearly following the path of free modulation of Western instruments like the piano.
She then pointed to the strings and said, "Mr. Zhu, your piano, or zither, can be tuned without being harsh and out of tune. It is an equal temperament."
Zhu Yuewen's eyes reflected the afterglow of the setting sun, and there was surprise: "Madam also knows the rhythm, and it is the new rhythm of the secret law? That's right, Gong Shang Jiao Yu Yu, plus Bian Yu and Bian Gong, there are seven tones and eight tones in total , is a process of formal music. However, the teacher is talented and has a unique law. He has also deduced the law of twelve equal intervals. In this way, starting with any one of the sounds, you can wait until the perfect and harmonious one. The octave. Madam mentioned twelve and also mentioned the melody. Could it be that she knows my master?"
When Zhu Yuewen said the last few sentences, his joy at meeting a close friend by chance was mixed with a bit of research and scrutiny.
His mentor passed away ten years ago, and he had served his mentor for more than ten years in his later years. He had never seen his mentor have a female disciple, or a female master from an old family came to pay him a visit. The female official from the capital in front of her was under thirty years old. It was impossible for her to learn new secret laws from her mentor.
On the other side, Zheng Haizhu also pretended to be humble and said: "Mr. Zhu, I don't know how to play a musical instrument. I only know a little bit about the equal temperament from the missionaries in Europe and the West. May I ask Mr. Zhu where his teacher is?"
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Zhu Yuewen raised his hands to the sky and said, "My master is the crown prince of Prince Zheng. His name was uploaded to Xiayu, and he left for the west ten years ago. When I was still a young boy, I was adopted by my master, and my name was also given to me by my master." .”
"Zai" character generation? Zhu Zaiyu? Is that the clan peer of Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaiye, the grandfather of the current emperor Zhu Changluo?
He has a very high seniority.
The most important thing is that Zheng Haizhu, a professional researcher of Ming history, finally remembered that there was a prince in the Ming Dynasty. Because the father of the vassal prince bluntly remonstrated with Emperor Jiajing and rebuked the emperor for taking elixirs, he would become a fool. Jiajing was furious. He was imprisoned and his son was beheaded.
When the prince was young, something happened suddenly, but he did not sink. Instead, he traveled among the people and made many achievements in the fields of mathematics, music and other fields.
Because the clans in the Ming Dynasty were full of waste, it was difficult to produce such a great talent. Naturally, many people in later generations will remember him. Not to mention that he discovered the "Twelve Laws of Equality" earlier than Westerners.
"It turns out he is Crown Prince Zheng!" Zheng Haizhu said respectfully, "When I was traveling with scholars and music lovers in southern Zhili, I heard that Crown Prince Zhu was proficient in music and dance. But when the scribes in the south played the piano at the elegant gathering, they still played the five notes in the right tone. .”
When Zhu Yuewen heard this, he originally wanted to say, "Those who claim to be orthodox among scholars, no matter whether they are new or old, are actually just conservative people." Then he thought about it and realized that the lady in front of him seemed to only like to argue with those who disagreed in person. He was happy to talk about people behind his back, so he returned to silence, and his hands returned to the strings.
Zheng Haizhu also sat down on the stone under the pine tree and asked harmoniously: "This little zheng of yours can be tuned without moving the pillars?"
Zhu Yuewen said: "I have made this plan, but it is still under trial production."
"Well, the European and American missionaries said that the low pitch is related to the length and relaxation of the strings, but it's easy to say that. To tune and tune the strings without moving the keys, the arrangement and number of the strings and pillars are much better than now. It’s much more difficult to play the zither, zither, ruan, and pipa. How many twelve equal intervals can you play with these strings?”
Zhu Yuewen rubbed the hook with his ten fingers and demonstrated to Zheng Haizhu.
The musician who had just passed by felt that the tone of the woman of similar age opposite him was completely different from the sternness when he defended his companion, and the vigilance when he first saw him. She now appeared gentle and gentle, with a hint of interest. Vigor asks for advice.
After Zhu Zaiyu's death, Zhu Yuewen was introduced to the Prince of Lu's Mansion by a descendant of King Zheng. Although he was respected, he had no close friends in the development of new rhythmic instruments. The music and music students and music households who come and go around them all act like monks who work against the clock every day, just looking for a monthly salary.
But at this moment, when the last ray of light on the horizon was about to dissipate, an outsider who claimed not to know how to play a musical instrument made Zhu Yuewen feel clear and comfortable for the first time many years after the death of his teacher Zhu Zaiyu.
