I said: not to be handsome and beautiful, but to be free and elegant.
This is not what I said, but what Cheng said in "Cheng Yi Tang Qin Pu" in Qing Dynasty. Many musicians in the past dynasties have mentioned it.
Cheng Yun: "Qin is a sacred music. A gentleman cultivates the spirit of neutralization to cultivate his morality and rationality. Speak with words, not words. Friends who practice the piano can only be taught by scholars from liberal arts backgrounds. How can a frivolous person say such a thing? "
In other words, we should be educated, educated, honest and dignified.
Even if you don't have it for the time being, you should be awed and eager to pursue it. Instead of "I have no culture, who am I afraid of?" I am illiterate, unwilling to learn, and strong and unyielding to attack others.
Why do you say that? Because Qin is a cultural carrier, a collection of Chinese civilization philosophy, aesthetics, law, Taoism, politics and medicine, and a tool for saints to rule the country and level the world. You can't say you want to practice writing, but it's not true that you can't read and refuse to learn.
From Fuxi and Shennong to Confucius, Sima Xiangru, Cai Yong, Ji Kang and Tao Yuanming, and then to Guan Pinghu and Cha Fuxi in modern times, who is not a great cultural person of that era? It can be said that without literate people, there is no piano, and without the inheritance of literate people, we can't even see what the piano looks like, let alone learn.
Therefore, Cao Roucai, a great pianist in the Tang Dynasty, said: "The left hand is full of sounds, and the right hand is heavy and slow. It is even harder to say that this person must be studying. "
Therefore, anyone who has no cultural education, does not study and blindly practices piano skills will inevitably fall into a slippery slope. Vulgarity, like juggling, is no different from selling dog skin plasters in Jianghu. Oh, now it's pyramid selling, marketing and Buddhist marketing.
This kind of influence is terrible. It doesn't matter if you hurt yourself or defile the saint. It's a crime to lead the piano to the point of no return and mislead other people's children.
As for personal image, if you don't intend to take students to inherit Guqin in the future, you just need to cultivate your body and mind and improve your personal quality, but there is no certain requirement. But if you want to take students to carry on the family line, it is best for Zhou Zheng.
Why? To be a teacher and be a man is to show the present and the law. This world has the habit of judging people by their appearances. You were born crooked and dressed like an idiot. Gentlemen stay away from the kitchen, and people who are willing to follow you will stay away from you, so those who are willing to follow you will have a worse influence. This is all about breaking people's wisdom.
For example, in A Bing, erhu may not be played by blind people at first, but because A Bing became famous, he became the image spokesperson of erhu. As a result, erhu seems to be the most suitable for blind people to play and beg. Then, if you pass the guqin to a tramp who swings from side to side, in case the tramp becomes more famous, will you think that tramp will play the guqin best in the future? You still have to shake from side to side?
Of course, this is a joke. Looks are not important, what matters is temperament. Didn't Su Shi say "I am full of life, I am full of poetry"? Even if you are born crooked, as long as you have poetry books in your stomach, it is also an artistic conception. The strange stones and trees in Chinese paintings are all crooked.