Chapter 50 Guo Mian/Representative of Zhe School pianists in the Southern Song Dynasty

Guo Mian (1196-1260), courtesy name Chuwang.People from Yongjia, Zhejiang.Representative of the Zhe School pianists in the Southern Song Dynasty. Song people's aesthetic taste is more feminine than Tang people's, and literati's customs are more retro-inclined. Therefore, Qin, which was not very popular in Tang Dynasty, was very popular in Song Dynasty, and formed the capital, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces. group.Guo Mian is the founder of Zhejiang School. Guo Mian has never been an official in his life. When he was young, he worked as a clean-up guest in the house of bureaucrat Zhang Yan.Zhang Yan likes playing the piano, and has many piano scores in his collection, which opened Guo Mian's horizons.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a corner of peace, the court was corrupt, and the politics was dark.After Zhang Yan dismissed from office, Guo Mian simply went to live a leisurely life in seclusion. The Zhejiang school advocates innovation and opposes rigidity and rigidity.Guo Mian lived in seclusion in the Hengshan area of ​​Hunan Province. He composed "Xiaoxiang Water Clouds", "Floating Canglang", "Autumn Wind" and "Stepping Moon", etc., especially "Xiaoxiang Water Clouds", which is a representative piano piece of the Zhejiang School one.