Loulou hears the sound of the zither, and enjoys playing the zither everywhere. On the morning of June 28, when the reporter interviewed Wang Tianyi, the founder of China Oriental Orchestra, he was instructing Jiang Miao and Zhao Bonan to record the program "Fenghua Chinese Music" of CCTV Music Channel. He told the reporter that the popularity rate of Guzheng art in Huludao was very high. , "From ninety-nine, down to just walking, too many people can play the guzheng."
Huludao is known as "Chinese Zheng Island", which is famous all over the country and even the world, and is related to Wang Tianyi. Wang Tianyi has created and published more than 120 pieces of new zheng pieces, among which 60 pieces were released on CCTV. He once held a concert of his original works in the Vienna Golden Hall, and organized and conducted 2,348 guzheng players to participate in the performance, setting a Guinness World Record.
The guzheng has a simple and elegant appearance and beautiful timbre, but it is an instrument based on the pentatonic string sequence system. If it wants to become a world instrument comparable to the piano, the reform and innovation of the instrument is the primary task. Wang Tianyi's innovative "Xinzheng" led by the China Oriental Orchestra not only meets the needs of composers for creation, but also meets the needs of performing various types of works. "Xinzheng" not only retains the characteristics of guzheng performance, but also expands the scope of performance works, which greatly enriches the expressive power of the zheng.
Wang Tianyi not only created new guzheng repertoire, but also innovated the performance method and playing form of guzheng. New techniques such as palm-finger strumming, sequential external sweeping, post-jitter, and four-point grasping. It is an oriental symphony performance with the zheng family as the main body of string music, the sheng, flute, xiao and xun as the main body of wind music, and chimes, chimes, ethnic drums, gongs and cymbals as the main body of percussion music.
The "Guzheng Teaching Method" written by Wang Tianyi has provided theoretical support for those who learn Guzheng. Because of the theoretical support, it is easier to learn Guzheng. In the past 20 years, more than 200,000 people in the country and the world have learned to play through the "Guzheng Teaching Method" and related textbooks. Guzheng, Huludao alone has tens of thousands of people learning to play Guzheng and new ones.
Jiang Miao is a student of Wang Tianyi, and she has learned guzheng from him since she was a child. She said that Huludao became a "Chinese Zheng Island" and it was not achieved overnight. It took a long journey. The creation of Zheng Island started in 2003. At that time, everyone was relatively unfamiliar with the guzheng. When taking a taxi with the instrument, the taxi driver would ask how long the electronic organ is. I don’t know the guzheng. City, building a brand of Guzheng Island is easier said than done? First of all, let ordinary people know and understand the guzheng instrument, and it can also play a nice sound. Wang Tianyi and his team go to the squares of Huludao to play the zither every day, the purpose is to let everyone know and be familiar with the guzheng. The sound of the guzheng is nice, learning this musical instrument can cultivate sentiment, and children can also have a good specialty and development. Citizens who crowded the square to watch the performance began to let their children learn the guzheng. Especially in 2003, the six national ministries and commissions held the first national new zheng competition in Huludao City. The players from Huludao won the championship in all categories in one fell swoop, and the Huludao guzheng began to become famous in the whole country.
Nowadays, large and small kindergartens and primary schools in Huludao have carried out guzheng training activities, and people can always be heard playing the guzheng in the streets and alleys. Everyone had a dinner together. There were 10 people at a table, and there were about 8 children or adults from family members and friends who were learning the guzheng. Over the past 20 years, more than 20,000 people in Huludao have been playing the guzheng.