Chapter 57 Yan Cheng/Founder of Yushan Qin School

Yan Cheng (1547-1625), named Daoche and named Tianchi, was born in Changshu (now Jiangsu).A famous qin player in the late Ming Dynasty and the founder of the Yushan School. Yan Cheng was the second son of Yan Na, a scholar of the Ming University, and he went to the prefect of Shaowu (now Fujian) as a Yin official.He learned the piano from the famous pianist Chen Xingyuan, and his performance style emphasizes "clear, subtle, light, and distant".He founded the Qinchuan Qin Society, and discussed the science of Qin with a group of piano masters. He said to himself, "The beauty of the piano comes from the soul, and it is connected with politics and education. It touches animals. It distinguishes between rigidity and softness, and distinguishes the ups and downs. It is not only in the text but also in the sound. What? Try to get people to recite poems. The majestic ones don’t necessarily point out their hair, and the solemn ones don’t necessarily hold back their capacity. Only the drums and zithers can distinguish the palace corners and make them clear and different. They are vigorous and provocative but have a clear sense of morality.He is the author of Songxianguan Piano Score.He attacked the atmosphere of overfilling words in Qin music at that time, and advocated the expressiveness of music itself.