Taipingchun

The cold wind intensified, and Xu Xiu, who hadn't gotten out of the haze of Qian Fu's death until now, was shocked, and she finally tasted the almost non-existent worries of life and death in this life.

"Be careful of catching a cold."

The lamb held a cloak and beckoned him to put it on.

After Xu Xiu took it and put it on, she pointed to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and said, "Look at how energetic these tens of thousands of boats are competing for."

Xiao Yang smiled and said: "Then how can you be so angry, Niu. Mr. Hetan is gone, you should wait and see ahead." Although you can say this with a smile, Xiao Yang's heart is extremely painful, and he feels blessed. After leaving, Er worried whether A Niu would go crazy again.

"Yes." Xu Xiu nodded, just standing at the bow of the boat, looking at the canal as crowded as the road, without saying a word for a long time.

Walking to the Tianchao of the Yangtze River, the turquoise water of the river is as wide as the eye can see, and the vast number of transport ships scattered on it seem to disappear like dots. The congestion in Xu Xiu's chest can't help but be affected at this moment.

Xu Xiu, who was holding on to the railing, walked carefully to the tip of the boat.

Shrugging his nose, he said with emotion: "What a river view!"

When he was young, he sang in his slightly hoarse voice:

[New Water Order] The big river goes east to the waves, and takes advantage of the westerly wind to drive a small boat.How could it be better than the Nine Layers of Dragon and Phoenix, the early exploration of the tiger and wolf lair, the man's heart is strong, the man's heart is strong...

[Zhuma Listening] Where is the young Zhou Lang now? Poor Huang Gai is hurting secretly, but the river is still hot with fierce soldiers. This is not water, but the blood of heroes that has flowed inexhaustibly for 20 years...

Xu Xiu, in plain clothes and white clothes, with only a simple blue cloth belt tied around her head, looked at the river, and the worry that was condensed on her brows disappeared.

"Jun Yi will live up to Mr.'s expectations."

This heart is bright.

Grief away, in heaven.

……

On the boat.

"Guan Hanqing's knife will be able to sing like this."

"It's a pity that the tone is not good, and there is no feeling of piercing clouds and collapsing rocks."

"Don't you think that a hoarse and deep voice fits well? You see, that brother doesn't look very old, and his voice hasn't changed completely yet."

"Priority, high and low, clear and turbid, according to this palace. The words come out between the lips and teeth, and the changes are clever, so as to help them be miserable."

"Why?"

"Mr. Yunming said it. This brother probably sang the new voice that has recently emerged from among the scholars in Wuzhong."

"This is Xinsheng?"

"Probably."

"Brother Zicai, you are from Kunshan County, can you understand what kind of rhyme it is?"

The person called Zicai frowned and said, "It seems to be the rhyme of the Central Plains, it seems to be the rhyme of Hongwu, it seems... I don't understand."

"Where's Brother Weixian? You're from Wuzhong."

"I don't understand the melody, and I don't understand this way. I only know that Lord Zhu Yunming spread new voices everywhere."

"Okay, okay, you can continue to toss your arithmetic."

"With entering sound, it should be Hongwu Zhengyun, but it also has the meaning of Zhongzhou rhyme"

"I don't understand."

"Ha, it's normal that you can't understand, you can't even speak official Chinese well."

"Humph."

"It's better to invite this brother to go forward together, we can't figure out why even if we analyze blindly here."

"Very good. Boatman, lean over."

……

"My lord, the Chaoguan is coming."

"Okay, don't worry, the boat owner." Xu Xiu put down the ancient book in his hand and nodded.

Bending down out of the cabin to the bow of the ship, because the twelve banknote customs on the canal collect taxes, as long as there are Juren and Scholars, they can be exempted from taxation, so merchants love to carry Juzi going north for the exam all the way .

Poor Daming's merchant tax is extremely low, but merchants still have the idea of ​​tax evasion.Xu Xiu shook her head, this is not something she is considering now.

"Brother!"

"That brother in white!"

Xu Xiu turned her head and saw a young man jumping over the transport boat and running over.

Reaching out to support him, he asked, "What's the matter?"

The young man gasped and said, "Dong Qi, Dong Wenyu, just now in the boat, I can't help but yearn for my brother's singing. I hope that my brother will come to our boat to talk and talk." After he finished speaking, he gasped again. It's strange to wish for a change of breath.

"Uh, this..." Before Xu Xiu could speak, the merchant said anxiously, "There are still seven or eight banknotes closed in the back, how can this be done."

Dong Qi rushed to Linchuan, who was about to pass through the bank pass, and said: "Zicai, Zicai, come quickly." Soon a man jumped over to help.

The man called Zicai didn't say anything, and stuffed a stack of treasured banknotes into the merchant's hand, and the merchant waved his hands repeatedly: "How can this be done?"

"Why can't it be done, don't you put it in your arms, walk and walk, brother, please come to our boat and have a talk." Dong Qi gasped.

"This..." Xu Xiu hadn't seen such an enthusiastic person for a long time, she couldn't help but couldn't cope, she looked at Xiao Yang, and saw that he was also speechless, so why not go.

……

"Wei Xiaowei, Wei Zicai. From Kunshan, I have met my brother."

Seeing that he is only about twenty years old, he looks very pleasing to the eye, the corners of his eyes are slightly raised but not as obvious as Tao Ji's Danfeng eyes.

"Meet my dear friend."

"Dedicate the word Shuxian below, a person from Nanhai County, Guangzhou Prefecture."

Xu Xiu hesitated for a while before saying: "I've seen my dear brother" because it was difficult to hear clearly, so I couldn't help thinking for a while.

This person looks like a typical southerner, and his age is about the same as Wei Xiao.

"Shao Ting Ai, with cute characters, is from Huai'an in Fuzhou Prefecture, and I have met my brother."

"Cough... I've seen my lovely brother."

Shao Tingxuan touched his cheek in confusion and said, "Brother Junyi, do you know me?"

"No, I just took a sip of Jiangfeng, and I was a little worried." Xu Xiu concealed it.

Anyone who hears such a name will cough, Xu Xiu thought.

"Gu Yingxiang's name is Weixian, people in Wuzhong are very familiar with his name, and Mr. Zhu Yunming preaches everywhere."

"Don't dare, I have seen my dear friend."

"I'm Yang Shen, Xingda, a native of Xindu, Sichuan. I haven't written any words yet. I have met brother Jun."

"Meet my dear friend."

and many more.

Although her complexion was not obvious, the shock in Xu Xiu's heart was not light at all: here he is, the most famous person he has ever seen besides Tang Bohu Zhu Zhishan is here.

He looks very slender, half a head taller than himself, and the childishness on his face is still a little bit arrogant, but he is a proud little brother.

"There's me and me. I didn't count it just now. Let me introduce it again. Dong Qi, Dong Wenyu, a person from Kuaiji County, has met Brother Jun." Dong Qi hurriedly said, and Xu Xiu couldn't help rubbing his ears and laughing: "I met Brother Wenyu."

Except for Yang Shen who is a little younger, these six people are all about the same age as Xu Xiu, and people of the same age are familiar with each other very quickly. After a few introductions, Xu Xiu doesn't feel that there is anything unfamiliar.After meeting with these six people one by one, everyone sat down in the small cabin.

Dong Qi said: "The six of us met each other in Nanjing, so we decided to go to Beijing to take the exam together. Is it the same for Brother Jun?"

"I'm also going to Dabi."

Dong Qi proudly said: "Oh, we are all candidates in this year's autumn exam, and I am Yayuan in the Zhejiang Provincial Examination! Where is Brother Jun?" He took a breath slightly.

"In the 14th year of Hongzhi, I was ninth in the provincial examination in Yingtianfu. Brother Wenyu, you are really good." Xu Xiu joked, "But I am still a senior."

Yang Shen coughed, pointed at Dong Qi and Xu Xiu, and said, "Brother Jun Yi, you don't need to pay attention to him, it's a good thing he's not Jie Yuan, otherwise you'd have to show off."

Dong Qi dissatisfied: "You don't know! We Zhejiang Jinke has tens of thousands of people."

Wei Xiao said: "I seem to be the No.2 Yayuan too. Yingtian Mansion is no less populated than Hangzhou Mansion."

"Okay! Then we will try and compare!"

"Okay okay."

"Yeah, you guys are going to Beijing to catch the exam and I'm going to Beijing to find my father." Yang Shen said weakly while lying on the table.

Xu Xiu knew that Yang Shen would be the number one scholar in the future, so she comforted her, "Mr. Ling is a great talent, Mr. Yang, you also want to be named on the gold list. You don't take this subject, and you will take it next time."

"Well, my father is very strict." Yang Shen shook his body and pretended to be afraid.

"Ha ha,"

Dong Qi said: "Brother Jun, did you sing the new voice of Wuzhong on the river earlier? Can you tell us about it?"

Xu Xiu knew that Zhu Zhishan talked about his concept of cultural music everywhere, and also reminded him to study the rhymes of the two rhyme books "Hongwu Zhengyun" and "Central Plains Rhyme". Tune.

I can't help but smile bitterly, I can only say that I am too presumptuous, things have a historical process, how can it be artificially accelerated so easily.

Dao: "It's a new sound, but it's just improved based on the Kunshan tune that is spread in Kunshan, and also absorbed the impassioned income of Beiqu. It's just the rhyme from the two rhyme books of Hongwu and Zhongyuan. It's not worth mentioning as a game."

Gu Yingxiang nodded and said: "There is a kind of accent in Kunshan. It's high and talented."

Xu Xiu said politely, "I dare not do it."

Wei Xiaodao: "The law is what Mr. Yunming preached, so what is the explanation for this law?"

Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, Xu Xiu said cautiously: "The law, the law of poetry, the law of words, and the way of using music also need law."

Dong Qi asked curiously, "How should I say it? What kind of law?"

This is the bad style of study in the Ming Dynasty. You have to find out the root of everything. It was the same in Wuzhong before, but now it seems that you can't avoid it.

Xu Xiudao: "Then let my younger brother explain this law to you."

The six people cupped their hands and said solemnly: "Please."

It should be so polite to treat learning.

Xu Xiu slowly said: "In the early Tang Dynasty, it was very popular to incorporate regulated poems into songs. The titles of Yizizi and Kunlunzi were all derived from Wang Weilu's poems composed by Li Guinian and others. Li Taibai composed three chapters of Qingping Diao In Taibai's view, it is nothing more than writing three seven-character verses..."

"It is not entirely accurate to say that Lü Ci started in Jiaofang. However, it cannot be denied. Song Rendao: Because of the old name (the name of Tang Jiaofang), it also relies on the new voice. This can also explain. Lü Ci was originally a long and short sentence. Later it was called Shiyu, and then it was called Ci."

"Where there is well water to drink, you can sing Liu Ci. This is what the envoys who sent Xixia back to the country in Yemengde's "Summer Records" in the former Song Dynasty said. You really think that Liu Yong's Ci is thousands of miles away. Wherever you go, can you sing with different dialects? Can you sing in the same way?"

Yang Shen asked: "Then how should we explain these words?"

Xu Xiudao: "It's not complicated to say. Liu Yong was the first to open the rhythm of the slow tune. The words have "live" (that is, beat), and you can sing according to the sound of the words."

To put it simply, through the tone of the word, through the beat in the word, and changing the rest, the lyrics can be sung.

Dong Qi clapped his hands and said happily: "As long as you get Liu Yong's rhyme, you can sing according to the rhythm of the style, and how to deal with the melody, you can sing or chant according to the font and accent. It varies from person to person, only those who can read and write, such as high-class singers, can sing slow words well."

Xu Xiu smiled and said, "Of course. Brother Wen Yu, you can slow down, don't suffocate to death."

Dong Qi coughed slightly and waved his hands, "No problem, no problem, no problem, no problem."

"The seventeen notations written by Jiang Baishi in the former Song Dynasty said: At the beginning, the outspoken meaning was long and short sentences, and then it was combined with the rhythm. What do you understand? If it is not a rhythm sentence, the melody is unclear, flat and without cadence, and it is difficult to have a beautiful voice, or it is difficult. into singing."

"In a nutshell, according to the sound of the characters and the tune, the four tones of the flat tones are flat, flat and circumflex. The rhythm of the former Song Dynasty is extremely brilliant. The Secretary of Jiaofang composes the rhythm and forms a Sanqu. We only need to write lyrics according to the music. It can become a play."

"As for the singing, I will use the Kunshan accent as the basis, which incorporates the northern sound. You can refer to the two rhyme books of Hongwu and Zhongyuan. However, there are too many rhymes in these two rhyme books. Let me use my mouth to say the rhymes. It’s impossible, so it would be great to have a rhyme book dedicated to Sanqu.”

Xu Xiu thought: Hongwu Zhengyun has about [-] rhymes, how could someone be able to read them all?Still use it to sing?This is the reference book used for the imperial examinations. It is really unreliable for future generations to use this kind of official rhyme books of the past dynasties to verify ancient Chinese. Those videos of ancient Chinese are purely taken for granted.

Wei Xiaodao: "Brother Jun Yi, did you ever write a rhyme book for this Sanqu?"

"I'm ashamed, I'm not very talented, I can't write rhyme books."

Xu Xiu is not humble either. Although he has a lot of research on opera, he can only do so. He knows that the textbook of Kunqu Opera is "Learning the Rhythm of Lizhu", but it was only in the Qianlong period. Since then, the talent for singing Kunqu opera Don't look at the two rhyme books of Hongwu and Zhongyuan.

"These concepts are already excellent. I only hate that Meng Yuan cut off the inheritance of our Han family and ended up with the laws that existed in the previous Song Dynasty. It ends here."

This is natural. Those who play this kind of cultural music game are all high-level intellectuals, but they must first be proficient in rhythm and poetry, and then they must understand rhyme, and they must also understand flat tones, so that they can be called playing, not singing. After entering the Central Plains, they will definitely be hit hard, and then the North and South songs that fit their aesthetics will become popular.

Most of the so-called exquisite Yuan songs can only be watched, that is, read and played by yourself on the desk. At that time, there were basically no songs, or very few songs.

Yang Shen said with enthusiasm: "We must drive the Tartars back to the north of the desert."

For a while the crowd was excited, Xu Xiu smiled and said nothing, the concept of the ancient nation was deeply rooted.

……

The unfamiliarity of meeting for the first time gradually dissipated among the people as the communication deepened. They chanted poems and made pairs along the way, performed tea orders, and talked about Sanqu, which was very in tune.

When you come to Jinan Prefecture, you will not see the southern scenery on both sides of the strait, but the wide field of vision brings you a unique landscape.

The boat went all the way to the north, and it didn't realize that the mountains had passed, and it arrived at Hejian Mansion, which was not far from the capital.