Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra: The Beauty of Drums from Chang'an to the World

In Xi'an in the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, there is such a world intangible cultural heritage. It is known as "the activation stone of ancient Chinese music" and witnessed the history of music development in ancient China. "".

As a characteristic culture of Xi'an, Xi'an Drum Music has also been inherited in contemporary society. The Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra is a typical representative of the new generation of Xi'an Drum Music.

In mid -to -late May of this year, the sound of drum music from the ancient capital of Xi'an in Xi'an, the national economic development, sounded the Nanshan Cultural and Sports Center Theater. Bell and drum 磬, General Guan, a song, seemed to bring everyone back to the Tang Dynasty court again, and this is just the first stop of the Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra in 2022.

They are bringing Xi'an Drum Music to the cultural world of young people, step by step from Xi'an to the country, and lead to the world.

inherited

Xi'an drum music originated from the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, it continued to absorb and integrate a variety of artistic essences in the development of history. A complete large -scale classical music form is formed, and it still retains quite complete tracks, spectrals, structures, musical instruments, and performance forms. In May 2006, Xi'an Drum Music was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

The Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra is a typical representative of the new generation of Xi'an drum music. Since its establishment in 2016, the ancient orchestra has always adhered to the spirit of inheritance and innovation, continuously promoted Xi'an Drum Music, from Xi'an Zhou to Baoji Mei County, and then to Zhengzhou, Henan, Suzhou, Jiangsu, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, etc. The remaining provinces and cities have also been appointed by the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism to visit dozens of countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, and Japan.

In 2022, the first stop of the large -scale concert of "Datang Yayun · Zhongming Drum" came to Shenzhen. This performance is the re -upgrade based on a large number of live performances in the early stage. The track further integrates inheritance and innovation, hearing and vision. The development of development. The applause at the performance scene was thunderous, and the audience wandered in the Tang Dynasty palace feast, cheering in the new editor of Minle Music, and many young people in Hanfu also came to check in to watch, showing the strong attraction of traditional culture.

Wonderful performances are inseparable from school support. The Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra is composed of more than 30 masters and doctors who graduated from well -known at home and abroad music colleges at home and abroad. It is a high -quality, highly educated internationalization, and professional art group mainly based on ancient music performances. In Xi'an Foreign Affairs College, in addition to large -scale performances, they are also constantly passing the ideas of non -heritage culture to students in schools.

Xi'an Foreign Affairs College attaches great importance to the education function of ritual and music. As early as 2016, he began recruiting unified enrollment in the direction of the undergraduate Guqin in music performances. The practical teaching of teaching brings sustainable talent guarantee for each live performance.

The guarantee on the hardware, Xi'an Foreign Affairs College is also unambiguous. The school has established a well -equipped Guqin classroom for students to learn Guqin, and also established the Zhengmeng Academy, Guqin Art Workshop and the Clock Hall to further promote and inherit the traditional ritual and music culture. Essence

With the full support of such manpower, material resources, and space, after the establishment of the ancient band of Xi'an Foreign Affairs, it became a "high -match" organization in the industry.

Innovation

Professor Huang Teng, chairman and principal of Xi'an Foreign Affairs College, as the founder of the ancient orchestra, once said in the interview: "We should let Xi'an Drum music live and grow in the original appearance. This is the real purpose of our establishment orchestra."

In order to achieve this goal, Professor Huang Teng has been doing his best. He composed of his lyrics, "The Peace of Wanshi", "Honor Dao Guide", "Rain Playing Pear Flowers", "Shake the Satellite Satellite to welcome you", and many other ancient songs such as the ancient orchestra reflected the continuous innovation in the inheritance.

Of course, all members of the Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra are also working hard for this goal. The members of the ancient orchestra are very hard in daily training. There are at least three large rehearsals per week. The progress of a single rehearsal is very compact, so that the training between members can be more tacitly tacit and the tune reaches a higher degree of integration. In addition to inheriting the existing Xi'an drum music, they are also constantly seeking innovation. For example, adding clocks, editing, 埙, Sheng and other instruments to the original instruments, re -arranging the schedules to make Xi'an drum music plump.

At the beginning of the New Year in 2021, the ancient orchestra received the invitation of the third quarter of the CCTV non -heritage cultural innovation program "Very Legend". Xi'an Drum Music was brought to the audience across the country.

After receiving the invitation, the Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra made an excellent arrangement on the track, and the team made a very detailed process from the perspective of professionalization. For example, the traditional instruments such as Guqin, Shuangyun, and pipes are added to the "Song of the Kings" that young people like to enrich the public's auditory experience. The ancient orchestra also re -arranged the theme of the popular TV series "The Twelve hours of Changan", and invited Chinese pop female singer Zhang Zining to complete the show together. The effect was very amazing.

Adding more elements to music is just a kind of innovation. How to use dance packaging to make programs present more visual impact and is the direction of the ancient orchestra to try to break through. To this end, every tour of the ancient orchestra is built with his professional stage and lighting master. At the same time, the ancient orchestra also invited the dance teacher to add dance and interaction that conforms to the scene during the interpretation, which changed the form of simply sitting on the music to make the performance more dynamic. In terms of makeup styles, the ancient orchestra invited the very professional imitation Tang retro makeup team in Shaanxi to build it for them. While restoring the Tang Dynasty's style, some improvements and innovations were also brought to hearing and vision. The public feels different. "Put on this dress and pick up the musical instrument, it feels like returning to the court music of Datang." Gao Yan, a member of the ancient orchestra, told us.

Innovation has become an indispensable part for the ancient orchestra, and has been exploring and practicing. As far as the Shenzhen tour is concerned, the ancient orchestra has invited Wang Jianan, a well -known domestic artist Wang Jianan as the director of the concert. The entire performance of his director applied more advanced dance design and technology integration to upgrade all programs. The upgraded "Datang Yayun · Zhongming Drum music" not only reflects the great charm of the art of the Tang Dynasty, but also releases the extraordinary charm of contemporary music performance art, so that the "Millennium Live Fossil" is displayed in the new form of the public.

From "The Song of the King" to "Qingpingle", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Big Fish", to "Qing Shanle" and "Broken Formation" and other works, this member of this member is only 30 years old. The method of walking with Xi'an Gulo entered the TV screen, the district, county, and provinces and cities, and then moved forward along the Silk Road and moved towards the world. They let the ancient rhyme and Xi'an Guliang inherit and continue to innovate, so that traditional culture has glowed with new vitality.

To the future

"At the beginning of our creation, it was also to meet the aesthetics of our young people today, rather than bringing these to the museum. We want to let it live." The Guqin performer in the ancient orchestra said, "Let those music with thousands of years of history Walking into the public's vision, Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra has been working hard. "

After the popularity of Xi'an Drum Music Edition "The Song of the King", the "Song of Xi'an" and the "Xi'an Song" and the "Xi'an Song" and the male singer Tengger, Mainland Chinese Mainland, also received a lot of attention on the Internet. The cheerful music is accompanied by Xi'an Gulo music. Charm forms a distant history of history and modern culture. On the social media platform, the "Datang Yayun · Zhongming Drum music" concert also tried this attempt to interpret traditional music from the perspective of modern people, leading young people into the theater to listen to national music.

This "combination of ancient and modern" has more possibilities for the creation of the ancient orchestra. Nowadays, under the continuous inheritance and innovation of Xi'an drums, they have carried the music genes of more than a thousand years in ancient China. On the basis of preserving the original art, after years of careful creation, it has become a beautiful cultural business card in Xi'an in the ancient capital.

Zhao Peng, who led the team to domestic and foreign tour at home and abroad, has always spared no effort to perfect the ancient orchestra. He said, "I hope these brilliant national treasures can be cherished by the world and carry forward."

His sentence is the ancient band of the entire Xi'an Foreign Affairs, and it is also the common voice of all non -genetic inheritors. With the successful end of Shenzhen's performance, the ancient orchestra has embarked on a new journey. The large -scale concert "Datang Yayun · Zhongming Drum music" will be successively went to Nanping, Suzhou, Zhoushan, Jiaxing, Rizhao, Shijiazhuang and other cities to play the millennium ancient charm of the Tang Dynasty.

Facing the future, Professor Huang Teng, the founder and head of the Xi'an Foreign Affairs Orchestra, said: "Art should progress with the times. Since we were born in the contemporary, we have the responsibility to do it before, and do it as much as you can do. How big, do your best to do it. "

Strive to take root in the education of the Chinese land, and deeply dig deep into the function and value of the excellent traditional cultural culture and educating people. Link together and connect China and the world tightly. (Text/Li Haogao Yinghui)

[This article is the first batch of practical projects (number: 2021SPWSXM-C-48) in the first batch of practical projects (number: 2021SPWSXM-C-48) in Shaanxi University]

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