Chapter 60 Zhang Kongshan/Pastor of Sichuan-style qin melody "Flowing Water"

The famous qin piece "Flowing Water" has different musical scores in different schools, but the most popular and expressive is the Sichuan School "Flowing Water". Sichuan has many mountains and dangerous rocks, rushing water and great rivers, so the wind of the piano is also vigorous, majestic and strange.Zhu Wenchang's "Qin History" in the Song Dynasty stated that "the sound of Shu is dry and anxious, like the waves rushing to the thunder", which shows that the characteristics of the Sichuan School, which is very different from the Qingy style in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, have long been formed.

Zhang Kongshan was a Sichuan pianist in the late Qing Dynasty.His name is Hexiu, his style name is Kongshan, and his nickname is "Half Beard".People from Zhejiang.He was a Taoist priest of Huangguan in Qingcheng Mountain, Sichuan Province in the late Qing Dynasty. He once learned piano from Feng Tongyun. In the early years of Guangxu (1875), Zhang Kongshan worked as a Qing guest at Tang Yiming's house, and assisted him in reviewing and editing hundreds of piano scores that he had searched for many years. 》, which is the collection of scores with the largest number of scores since the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In the 30th year of Guangxu (1904), he taught piano in Wuchang and trained many masters of piano.Huayang Gu Yucheng (named Shaogeng) and his two sons Gu Jun (named Zheqing) and Gu Luo (named Zhuoqun) were the ones who obtained it, and compiled their genealogy as "Baipingzhai Qinpu". . Zhang Kongshan is proficient in Qin melodies such as "Flowing Water", "Drunk Fish Sing Evening", "Pu'an Mantra" and "Confucius Reading Yi".The "Seventy-two Rolling Water" he passed down is magnificent and has been praised by pianists of all schools for nearly a hundred years.