Guo Mian
Guo Mian
Guo Mian (about 1190-1260), a native of Yongjia (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province), was an outstanding Guqin player, composer and educator in the Southern Song Dynasty and the founder of Zhejiang Guqin school.
Guo Mian is well-known for Qin. He never became an official all his life. He once worked as a Qing Dynasty guest under Zhang Yan's gate. He compiled the genealogy and folk genealogy of Han Xiaozhou, Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, into fifteen volumes of Qin Cao Pu and four volumes of Diao PU. Xiaoxiang Shuiyun, one of the top ten guqin songs in China, expresses the nostalgia for the country. In addition, "Pan Canglang", "feimingyin", "Qiuhong" and so on, all spread in the world.
Life of the characters
Guo Mian was regarded as a master by Mao Xun, Yang Zan and Xu Zi during LiZong period (1225-1264). He collected many popular Qin music. During the reign of Chunyou JINGDING (1241-1264), he composed many Qin songs. At the end of Song Dynasty, Yuan soldiers came to Zhejiang Province. He moved to Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan Province), boated on the two rivers of Xiaoxiang, and composed Xiaoxiang water cloud to express the pain of his country's fall and the feeling of his life experience.
Guo Mian was highly praised by people at that time in sorting out the old scores, advocating creation, and teaching piano skills. When he was middle-aged, he worked as a Qing Dynasty guest under Zhang Yan, a member of the main fighting faction at that time, and was engaged in sorting out Han's ancestral guqin music and folk music. Later, Han was killed, Zhang Yan was demoted, and the yuan soldiers invaded the south, so Guo Mian moved to Hengshan.
The famous Qin song "Xiao Xiang Shui Yun" is considered to be a high level of patriotism, artistry and skill. During the same period, he also wrote music such as Qiuhong, feimingyin, fancanglang and Chunyu, most of which were extemporaneous lyric works.
Guo Mian lived a poor life in cloth clothes all his life. Qing Yuan (1195-1200) and Jia Tai (1201-1204) of the Southern Song Dynasty were famous for their Qin skills. Mao Xun, Yang Zan and Xu Yu regarded them as masters. During the years of Jiatai and Kaixi (1201-1207), he became a Qing Dynasty guest in the family of Zhang Yan, a bureaucrat in Lin'an (now Hangzhou). Zhang Yan's family had a variety of genealogical books, and Guo Mian made a lot of money. Guo Mian was a guest at Zhang Yan's house, teaching the famous song "Wu Ye ti", and co edited with Zhang Yan Han Zhou's family's ancestral Guqin score and folk Qin score, forming 15 volumes of qincao score. In November of the third year of Kaixi (1207), Han Jianzhou was punished for his failure in the northern expedition, and Zhang Yan was impeached by Zhang Xie, the imperial censor, and became an official of Yin Qingguang Lu. Deeply aware of the fact that the state affairs were getting worse and worse, Mianyang immigrated to Hengzhou, went boating on the Xiaojiang and Xiangjiang rivers, and wrote the famous song "Xiaoxiang Shuiyun" to express his worries. Later, he died of depression.
Academic thought
In the Southern Song Dynasty, the Qin family was divided into several schools. Guo Mian, together with his students Liu Zhifang, Xu Tianmin and Mao Minzhong, was known as the "Zhejiang School", the originator of "Zhejiang School Guqin" and the founder of Zhejiang School Music. Most of the popular Qin music before the middle of Ming Dynasty was arranged, created and taught by Guo Mian. His works are full of patriotic feelings, and the main content is to reflect the national contradictions and express the non cooperation with the rulers of Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.
personal works
He has created a large number of guqin songs in his life, including Qiuhong, feimingyin, fancanglang, Chunyu, Xiaoxiang Shuiyun, Qiufeng and buyue, among which Xiaoxiang Shuiyun is the most famous.
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Guo Mian
