Kong Jianhua, male, master of flute, founder of Zhongyuan flute music, and famous music educator. He is a native of Zhongmu County, Henan Province. In 1948, he engaged in professional literary and artistic work. He had mastered a variety of musical instruments, and then specialized in the flute. Now he is a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, president of the Hubei Ethnic Wind Music Society, member of the Wuhan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, director of the Wuhan Musicians Association, and Wuhan Song and Dance Theater. flute player.

In the 1950s, he transplanted the suona's cyclic ventilation method to the bamboo flute, and was the first to install a tuning sleeve on the Chinese bamboo flute, which solved the flute's pitch problem that changed with the temperature difference. In addition, he also made his own double bass. flute, xun and super piccolo, etc. He also scientifically verified and copied the chi that was unearthed in Suixian County, Hubei Province more than 2,000 years ago, and made it emit a melodious melody. In the past 40 years, in addition to performing in theaters in major cities across the country, he has also often traveled to industrial and mining, rural areas, and the army to perform for the masses. He has also visited Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Cambodia, North Korea, and Hong Kong with the Chinese Art Troupe. and other countries and regions. Known as the "Oriental Magic Flute" by international friends. He has composed dozens of dizi pieces, among which "Memories of Hometown" was rated as an excellent piece in the whole country, and was included in the excellent dizi piece collection for the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Published articles and teaching materials such as "Flute Questions and Answers" and "Flute Playing Method". He has successively served as a flute teacher in Wuhan Song and Dance Theater, Hubei Academy of Arts, Hubei Province Song and Dance Troupe, Hubei Provincial Theater School, and Wuhan City Theater School, and has trained a large number of professional and amateur students.

In the early morning of July 8, 2011, Mr. Kong Jianhua, a great master of Chinese flute, founder of Zhongyuan flute music, and a famous music educator, died in Wuhan at the age of 86 due to illness. Life of a living creature The sound of the jade flute is the same as the sound of the yellow crane returning to the king--Comment on the famous flute player Kong Jianhua One went to Changsha for a relocated guest, and looked west to Chang'an without seeing home. The jade flute is played in the Yellow Crane Tower, and the plum blossoms fall in May in Jiangcheng. This is an eternal quatrain written by Li Bai, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, when he heard the flute song "Plum Blossoms Falling". For thousands of years, countless literati and writers have always closely linked the jade flute and the yellow crane with great interest. Such as "sister flower", "and Tilian". Especially since the reconstruction of the Yellow Crane Tower in 1985, melodious and beautiful traditional Chinese music has been played in the sky above the golden tower and the silver lamps. The performance of Mr. often stops tourists from listening. The Yellow Crane Tower is located in the Central Plains, with outstanding people, scenic spots and famous songs. Kong Jianhua is a first-class performer of Wuhan Song and Dance Theater. Famous flute player. His name became famous both at home and abroad with his flute. As the cultural messenger of the Chinese people, he has participated in many Chinese art troupes to visit Japan, North Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, Hong Kong and other countries and regions, and has been praised as the "Oriental Magic Flute" by international friends.

In art, he widely collected Bona, based on the Central Plains, and took the essence of various schools, forming a unique style that is prosperous, euphemistic and lyrical, but also aggressive and unrestrained, combining rigidity and softness. His performance has distinct local characteristics, fluent musical language, strong dramatic color, and abundant emotional torrents. So listening to his performance can always make people feel flesh and blood, vivid and touching. In the 1950s, he transplanted the suona's cyclic ventilation method into the flute, and achieved "the perfect sound and appearance" when he played the difficult special long notes, which was praised as "a must" by Hong Kong musicians. At the same time, his down-to-earth stage demeanor also made many colleagues fall for him.

Kong Jianhua became an outstanding representative of the Central Plains Dizi School on the basis of mastering a wealth of folk music and absorbing the strengths of various schools of flute skills. In his 60-year artistic career, Kong Jianhua has integrated creation, performance, music modification and teaching. He has composed a large number of excellent flute solo pieces. Among them, his representative works "Memories of Hometown", "The Return of the Yellow Crane" and "Love in Rivers" are the most complete. Each reflects the different artistic styles of Kong Jianhua's Central Plains Flute School. Memories of Hometown was created in 1961. He designed the music for a play. The joys and sorrows of the people in the play strongly hit his heartstrings. His thoughts were endless, and he could not calm down for a long time. Therefore, he chose and refined and developed it based on the most popular Henan Opera music "carrying a sedan chair" and "slow 28". The music is sometimes excited and hearty, sometimes like weeping and complaining, the contrast between light and dark, ups and downs, vividly expressing the complex emotions of "memory". Due to his solid foundation, and the popular and well-known musical language, his voice and emotion are blended when he performs, and it sounds like the flow of his heart, which has reached a high degree of perfection. So that the audience has the perfect artistic enjoyment.

In 1963, Kong Jianhua performed "Memories of Hometown" in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong newspaper said: "Listening to Kong Jianhua's flute performance is like listening to a symphony. It contains rich connotations." Even though it is declining, it still has a strong stage effect, and it was rated as an excellent song by the whole country on the 30th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. If "Memories of Hometown" is rooted in the soil of Henan, rough, unrestrained and has a strong local color, then "The Return of the Yellow Crane", which is called the sister chapter of "Memories of Hometown", has a distinctive biography music. Style, simple and elegant. "Yellow Crane Tower", "Yueyang Tower" and "Tengwang Pavilion" are also known as the three famous buildings in the south of the Yangtze River in China. The Yellow Crane Tower has been repeatedly destroyed and not built, which is very regrettable. Kong Jianhua's excitement could not be restrained, his heart was tumbling, and he chanted: "The jade flute is in love with the Yellow Crane, what can I do if the crane is destroyed by the building, I am so excited to hear that my heart is flying again, and I have a long-cherished wish of 30 years to write a new song." Driven by this creative passion, he created the moving flute piece "The Return of the Yellow Crane". This flute piece draws on the music of Han opera with a long history as the material, and blends into the ancient and elegant Jiangnan silk and bamboo, making the music simple, fresh and unique.

The music is divided into four sections; first, the morning sun on the river; with melodious scattered long tones and quiet and dynamic accents, the audience is brought into the prescribed scene: the morning mist catches the river, the east is about to dawn, and water birds are passing by the river. With a crisp tweet, it woke up the sleeping Jiangcheng. 2. Clouds around the river building; the melody like a song depicts the beautiful picture of the golden building, the white clouds, the blue sky and the green mountains and green waters, the alternating appearance of the five national tones, and the playing style of the southern music flute, giving people a sense of Elegant, chic feeling. 3. All things compete in the show; the small allegro of the marrow jump, the lively syncopation, and the alternate appearance of two beats and three beats add to the vitality and dynamism of the music. Fourth, the Yellow Crane Lingyun, this is the climax of the music, which depicts the Yellow Crane chirping, dancing, spreading its wings and soaring in the sky. Finally, the golden tower and the jade roof are reproduced. Such a beautiful picture is neither the artist swiping, nor the poet chanting, but Kong Jianhua used a bamboo flute to vividly depict the beautiful scenery of the Golden Tower in Jiangcheng. In order to play this piece well, he used a variety of playing techniques, such as fast arpeggios, long cyclic ventilation, weak tone control, and difficult techniques such as third and fourth doubles. Many colleagues praised this piece of music and said: This piece is "deep in artistic conception, meticulous in handling, and high in skill". Kong Jian was born on the banks of the Yellow River and grew up on the banks of the Yangtze River. It was the rich milk of the two giant currents known in the world that nurtured the artist. Jiang He has a lover and love, and the two love each other with strong affection. Kong Jianhua spared no effort to make all-wise and all-powerful dedication to the people on both sides of the river. Even when he was over sixty years old, he still remembered the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

In his later years, the flute concerto "Jianghe Qing", with its rich connotation, majestic momentum, deep emotion, and perfect form, expresses the author's heartfelt words to people over the years. It seems to be a narrative poem that Kong Jianhua has been working on in the art gallery for 50 years, and it seems to be talking to his friends with a strong local accent? It is not difficult to distinguish the horn of progress, happy memories, wonderful singing and climbing. footsteps. The tail pushes the music to a climax, and brings all my mind into the surging river. At the end of the song, the meaning is still unfinished, and my thoughts are still galloping with the river.

The author of "Jianghe Love" is also ingenious in the use of musical materials. He skillfully combined the lively folk songs of Jingzhou on the edge of the Yangtze River with the singing of operas on the south bank of the Yellow River, and added various techniques of the flute. And the bangdi and the qudi are tied together and played, which not only expresses the high-pitched, loud, enthusiastic and unrestrained bangdi characteristics, but also exerts the deep, lyrical, vigorous, and inner function of the qudi. Because the author uses a variety of expressive means, the form and content, technique and art of this piece of music have achieved a perfect unity.

In addition to his representative work "Trilogy", he also created a large number of excellent works covering various themes and styles, such as "The Beautiful Scenery of Jianghan Plain", which describes the Jiangnan water town like a song and a painting. The powerful and enthusiastic "Boiled Construction Site" and the soft and lyrical "Little River Flowing", "Moon Night" and so on. Someone once asked incomprehensibly, "How come there are so many good melodies in Kong Jianhua's mind, and he plays a tune at a time". This question really deserves to be explored.

Kong Jianhua was born in Jingdian Village, Zhongmu County, Henan Province in October 1926. His father was an elementary school music teacher who was good at playing the organ, and his uncle was good at playing the flute and flute. Such a family environment has greatly enlightened the soul of Mengtong, who has a talent for music. Henan Province is known as the hometown of dramas. Henan Operas, Qu Operas, Yuexi Operas, Falls, and Folk Songs and National Musical Instruments are very rich and popular. Almost everyone can sing and hum them. He is immersed in his ears and eyes, nurtured and permeated, his ears are very good, and the melody can be imitated by his ears. To this day, the more flirtatious arias he heard in his childhood are still the reserved programs of the party.

He was omnipotent in playing the flute, drawing the banhu, playing the organ, and acting on stage, which laid a good foundation for his later artistic creation and practice. In 1948, the young man who could sing well resolutely joined a professional theatre company, which started a new era in his artistic field. He is even more powerful, full of passion to study skills, like a sponge absorbing water to ask for advice from his peers. Wuhan, Hubei is Kong Jianhua's second hometown. He is very fond of Hubei's folk art, especially folk music. He took advantage of the opportunity of the troupe to perform in the countryside to visit artists and collect folk music tirelessly. He traveled to Jianghan Plain and Western Hubei. , Hubei, Hubei and other vast areas.

Tian Mianhuayi, Donglu flower drums, and Enshi folk songs are all materials for his creation. He said: "Everything is inseparable from the soil, and music and art also need to be rooted in the people and absorb nutrients from the masses." It is precisely because he has a solid foundation of national folk music that he is very handy in creating. On the basis of mastering a variety of musical instruments, he specialized in the flute. After extensive absorption, hard training, and deliberate refinement, he finally climbed to the peak of art and became an outstanding flute performing artist. His name has been included in the "Chinese Artists Dictionary". He has made significant contributions to the reform of musical instruments.

In the early 1950s, he installed a tuning sleeve on the bamboo flute to solve the problem of the flute's pitch changing with the temperature difference. Now this type of flute has been adopted by major musical instrument factories across the country and has become popular throughout the country. In addition, he also made a double bass flute; Xun and ultra-piccolo, etc. He also scientifically verified and copied the chi that was unearthed in Suixian County, Hubei Province more than 2,000 years ago, and made it emit a melodious melody. Kong Jianhua is not only a performer, but also a composer and educator.

In the past 40 years, he has cultivated batch after batch of flute players, which can be described as "the world is full of peach and plum". Some of these students are professors or lecturers in music schools, and some are performers in art groups. The newspaper once published an article praising the high style of his followers under the title of "Education and Preaching, Being an Example". In the 1950s, he wrote and published a long article "Dizi Questions and Answers", which was the first to systematically synthesize various techniques of the flute, and played a positive role in promoting the popularization and improvement of the flute. Although Kong Jianhua is 65 years old, he still writes books tirelessly, sums up his experience, and is sometimes invited to perform on stage.

Since 1990, he has been working on a new topic. The "Flute Therapy Class" jointly organized by him, Wuhan Children's Hospital and the Red Cross Society of Wuhan Jiang'an District is to let children play the flute to treat bronchial asthma. After the first course of treatment The treatment, with remarkable curative effect, is now in development.

On March 22, 1991, the elderly Wen Wei Po reported: "65-year-old Kong Jianhua not only worked hard in the Art Garden and achieved great results, but also opened up new fields in the Medical Garden, combining medicine with music and playing flute to cure diseases. attention from all walks of life.” Among them, the flute circulating ventilation technique was also developed by him!