Pipa has been inherited for thousands of years, and the image of the pipa has appeared many times in the murals. Poets are keen to express their love for the pipa in the poems and songs. In the pipa music and Gongchi music of Dunhuang, the sound of the pipa has spread continuously, and the "printing" and "painting" have contributed greatly.
Recently, the China Modern and Modern Press and Publication Museum created a parent-child theme concert "Time and Space Printing Painting", which integrates printing culture and traditional music culture. The cave itself has a natural reverberation effect, in which the audience sits on the floor, enough to feel the dialogue through time and space. Multiple groups of parent-child families explore the secrets of treasure hunting, find the inner connection between traditional printing and modern digital life in the light and shadow waves, immerse in the beauty of sound and painting art brought by the non-heritage pipa, and linger.
The idea of the concert came from the image of the Pipa girl on the photocopper-plate in the collection of the China Modern and Contemporary Press and Publication Museum. The activity adopts the form of immersive concert, so that young people can "resonate" and "empathize" with Chinese excellent traditional culture, so that intangible cultural heritage and red culture, Shanghai culture and Jiangnan culture can communicate and integrate, and help young people to understand and participate in the inheritance of Chinese excellent traditional culture through diversified new forms such as education and entertainment, parent-child interaction and stage performance.
The series of performances is planned to continue in different solar terms in 2024, bringing visual and spiritual enjoyment to audiences of all sizes who love traditional culture, and creating a window to showcase Chinese culture. The pipa players of Shanghai East Palace Art Troupe took the strings as the medium and the music as the guide, bringing the "Tang Pipa", "five-stringed pipa", "Ming and Qing Pipa", "modern pipa" and "electric pipa" to the scene, presenting a journey of sound and painting across time and space for the audience.
The first piece of Yingzhou ancient tune "Yue Er Gao" played on the second floor of the museum, the performer made up to restore the female image of the pipa of the photographic copper plate of the cultural relics in the collection, holding the pipa of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the unique ancient sound of the silk string slowly sounded. As early as the Tang Dynasty, there were words such as "combined four feet on the work of six and five" to indicate the pitch, and special characters marked the finger position to mark the score. The song uses the Gongchi score of Yue Er Gao as the main visual element to show the inseparable relationship between music and publishing.
The three original pieces featured in the show are thematic and stylistic. "Shin Dong Beats West" begins in the printing workshop, where the players play a rumbling metal melody next to the sleeping old printing machinery. In the "Yao" sounded in the Qiuci caves, the two players played the "sun" and "moon", and the Tang lute and the five-string lute sounded like the sun and the moon, reflecting the situation in the murals. "Time and Space Printing Painting" is played in a digital publishing hall full of science and technology. The electric pipa opens with a sound. Technology and culture collide and intertwine, drawing a beautiful time and space printing painting.
The time and space collision between intangible music and modern publishing is the Yingzhou ancient melody inheriting in the Gongchi ancient music, the anonymous pipa Qinji left on the photographic copper plate, the modern publishing melody played in the mechanical clang, the music and dance flying through the millennium in Qiuzi Grottoes, and the beautiful fantasy of the collision between scientific and technological currents and ancient music culture. The activity divides each floor of the venue into time and space. The fine excavation of cultural relics in the museum can be called a "tailor-made" traditional cultural journey.
The museum staff introduced to the participants the digital technology restoration cave exhibition on the third floor, which restored the domes of caves 38 and 17 and Kumtula in Kizil Grottoes in Xinjiang. Among them, 38 grottoes have the reputation of musicians' chorus grottoes. The Musical Instruments appearing in the murals of Tiangong Chi Music include transverse flute, Ruan Xian, Konghou, pipa, Tartar pipe, brass cymbals, pan flute and wax drum, which witness the history of the fusion of Silk Road music and dance art in ancient Qiuzi.
Interactive game session, in the printing technology Museum on the third floor to find a collection of photographic copper plate with the image of the pipa woman, can get the museum's exclusive seal, the audience in the flip flip board to find the teaching book in the colorful stone printing "golden Pipa" pattern and get a New Year gift with pipa elements.
It is reported that the "Time and Space Printing Painting" immersive parent-child theme concert (Pipa special concert) is sponsored by China Modern and Contemporary Press and Publication Museum, Shanghai Research Center for Caring for the Next Generation, co-organized by Hudong Workers' Cultural Palace, and hosted by China Welfare Association Children's Education Media Center.
Wen Hui reporter Xu Yang
