Chapter 343: Nine-Colored Deer

Behind the seven-foot screen,

was the shadow puppet troupe Qin Feng had invited earlier.

The elders, invited this time to Dunhuang,

felt a unique artistic atmosphere alongside the young people!

Meanwhile, in the fusion of inherited intangible cultural heritage and modern visual effects technology,

they glimpsed a different artistic world!

What was different from before was!

In traditional shadow puppetry, the instruments used were mostly banhu, erhu, men di, sanxian, suona, sheng, and others.

But this time, the shadow puppetry depicting the Flying Apsaras murals in Dunhuang!

used extremely special instruments!

Under the illumination of the lights,

the uncles, fathers, and grandfathers of the shadow puppet troupe manipulated shadow puppets in the style of Dunhuang murals.

They performed the story of the "Nine-Colored Deer" from the "Jataka Tale of the Deer King"!

Yo—

Cameraman Ni pulled the camera lens back!

From the accompanying instruments nearby, melodious music flowed!

Dunhuang pipa, konghou, and xun, thanks to Qin Feng and the efforts of the National Imperial Capital Instrument Research Institute,

had been partially restored, and Qin Feng had also reconstructed parts of the musical scores!

These instruments, ordinary audiences hadn't even seen, let alone heard of!

These instruments—ordinary audiences haven't even heard of them, let alone seen them!

Dilraba murmured softly, "What a unique flute! The tone is also very special."

Qin Feng replied, "That is a chi, fourth tone. Unlike hollow flutes, both ends are sealed, and there is no bamboo membrane." In the Song Dynasty, Chen Yang wrote in the "Book of Music":

"The chi is a flute with a bottom, played horizontally."

This is also an instrument appearing in Dunhuang murals!

Because its tone matches the 'bi' very well,

there is the allusion of the 'friendship of the bi and the chi', saying 'the elder brother blows the bi, the younger brother blows the chi'.

After hearing this, Dilraba's expression: OvO!

It sounds very impressive.

Although I haven't heard much of it, my boyfriend knows a lot about it!!

--【Brother Feng still knows so much~】

--【Wow! I remember watching the animated film 'Nine-Colored Deer' when I was a kid. My youth is back! No, my childhood is back!】

--【Brother Feng used the Dunhuang murals as a blueprint and recreated the story of the Nine-Colored Deer through shadow puppetry!】

--【All the instruments are ancient Chinese music! How did a harp randomly appear?】

--【That's not a harp!! That's a konghou!!! Our Chinese konghou!!! Not the Western harp!!】

--【Brother, don't get excited. Trust that after Brother Feng puts on such a performance, everyone will know about the konghou.】 In the camera shot, three students from the Yinyuexue Academy.

【Brother, don't get excited. After Brother Feng puts on this performance, everyone will know the konghou.】 In the camera frame, three students from Yinyuexue Academy.

diligently plucked the strings of the konghous in front of them.

Qin Feng saw Dilraba about to ask a question.

So he didn't wait for her to ask.

As if predicting her thoughts, he said, "This stringed instrument called the konghou is different from the Western harp."

Dilraba nodded, "The konghou is more beautiful! It has a beauty of a thousand years of accumulation!"

Qin Feng shook his head, "That's too abstract. Actually, it's very easy to distinguish; it has double rows of strings and can play two piano ranges simultaneously. Besides the playing techniques of yin, rou, la, and zhen,

it also incorporates the 'shaking finger' technique commonly used in the guzheng and pipa."

Whether in terms of wide range, numerous techniques, long history, or other aspects,

the Chinese konghou is not something the Western harp can be compared to.

The Huaxia konghou is not something the Western harp can be compared to.

Qin Feng didn't like to put others down; since something is good, its value isn't demonstrated by trampling on opponents.

Instead, it is to make ordinary people intuitively understand

why it is better and why it is awesome~

Dilraba listened so seriously; she had never been this serious in elementary school!

She just loved being bombarded with her boyfriend's little bits of knowledge!

She just loved having her boyfriend's little bits of knowledge poured over her head and shoulders!

Dilraba smiled at Qin Feng and said, "After the performance ends, I want to learn this!"

Qin Feng: "You're sick again."

Just then, Dilraba nudged Qin Feng with her elbow.

She whispered, "The CCTV camera is filming us. Go ask Teacher Luo on Weibo: how many years is the sentence for Zhang San's unauthorized filming~"

Qin Feng, of course, knew his silly girlfriend was joking.

Afterwards, a director from CCTV walked over and shook hands with Qin Feng.

The two had met before.

The two had met before.

Otherwise, even if the CCTV filming crew could enter the Dunhuang scenic area, which is closed for maintenance.

They still wouldn't reach the studio set that Qin Feng planned and arranged.

CCTV Director: "Qin Feng, your explanation just now about the flute and the konghou was very simple and easy to understand. Can we edit it into our CCTV program?" Qin Feng: "No problem! Are you paying?"

Reba suppressed her laughter and nudged Qin Feng with her elbow.

CCTV has already been very generous!

How can you still have the nerve to ask for money~

Whether it was the CCTV International "Li Ethnic Culture Promotional Video" before.

Or the three-minute exclusive "Blue and White Porcelain" segment on the News Broadcast afterwards.