Wu JINGLUE

Wu JINGLUE

Wu JINGLUE is a famous guqin player in modern times. Its performance features are: elegant, delicate and changeable. Both soft and beautiful lyric, but also a wonderful turn ups and downs, novel style, fascinating. In the field of guqin, he is known as "Yushan Wu School" and "a great master of Guqin".

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When Wu JINGLUE was young, he studied pipa, Sanxian and other musical instruments. At the age of 20, he began to learn Guqin from Wang duanpu. He learned from others and made great progress in his art. In the spring of 1936, more than 20 famous musicians, such as Li zizhao, Cha Fuxi, Peng Zhiqing and Zhang Ziqian, initiated and established the "Jinyu Qin club" with a good desire to carry forward the excellent tradition of classical music of the motherland. In the summer of the same year, Wu JINGLUE, introduced by Li Mingde, joined the Guqin club, took charge of the social affairs, and taught Guqin in Shanghai and Changshu in the name of "cesheng Qinyun room".

Wu JINGLUE was addicted to the two famous songs of "Xiaoxiang Shuiyun" and "Hujia Shiba Pai" in the Qing Dynasty's "wuzhizhai Qinpu". He played again and again, almost all day immersed in the artistic conception described by the two pieces.

Xiaoxiang is the work of Guo Mian in the Southern Song Dynasty. It covers the image of Jiuyi mountain with surging clouds and water, showing the author's indignation at the humiliation of the Southern Song Dynasty. Although the whole song focuses on scenery, it contains a strong feeling of indignation. When Wu JINGLUE played this song, he focused on momentum. At the beginning, he created an artistic realm of water, light, cloud and shadow, and the blending of emotion and scenery with the majestic momentum and sonorous rhythm.

Hu Jia is a narrative music about CAI Wenji, a poetess in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The whole music depicts Cai Wenji's tragic experience according to the original plot of 18 beats. When he plays Hu Jia, he focuses on emotion and vividly depicts Cai Wenji's complex contradictory psychology of joys and sorrows with delicate and changeable scenes and rhythm.

Wu JINGLUE's treatment of "Xiaoxiang Shuiyun" and "Hujia Shiba Pai" shows that his performing art has reached a perfect level. Up to now, many Qin players have played "Xiaoxiang" and "Hujia", almost all of which are his biographies.

Personal experience

He joined jinyuqin society in 1936 and became its leader in 1939.

In 1953, Wu JINGLUE was employed as a communication researcher in the Institute of national music of the Central Conservatory of music.

In 1956, he went to Tianjin as director of the plucked instrument teaching and research section of the Folk Music Department of the Central Conservatory of music, specializing in Guqin teaching and research.

In 1979, he was appointed professor of the Department of folk music, and was elected member of the China Federation of literature and art, and member of the National Music Committee of the China Musicians Association.

In 1954, he was a communication researcher in the Institute of national music of the Central Conservatory of music and taught in the Department of folk music.

In 1980, he served as the president of Beijing Guqin Research Association.

Professor in 1982.

Wu JINGLUE devoted all his life to the study of Guqin art and was good at playing. He integrated the understanding of folk music and traditional Chinese culture and art, accumulated ten years of profound skills, studied and created, and formed a unique artistic style.

personal works

His plays such as Xiaoxiang Shuiyun, Meihua Sannong, Pu'an mantra, Yuqiao question and answer, Wu ye wuqiufeng, reminiscent of old friends, Hujia Shiba Pai, qiusaiyin, Mozi Beisi, Gaoshan, Shuishui, Yangchun and Baixue were recorded as early as the 1950s and 1960s, and spread all over the world and were widely respected.

Wu JINGLUE initiated the Guqin major in the Conservatory of music, compiled Guqin teaching materials and trained a large number of students, many of whom have become famous guqin performers, professional teachers and theoretical researchers. In his long-term performance practice, he has also explored and sorted out nearly 40 ancient Qin songs, such as Guanglingsan, Hujia Shiba Pai, Yangchun, white snow, Gaoshan, Liushui, pheasant flying, Mozi Beisi, etc., and created new Guqin works, such as Shengli Cao, and transplanted and adapted Xinjiang Hao. His works include qixianqin textbook, Yushan Qinhua and Guqin improvement.

He has rich experience in the identification and restoration of guqin, and is committed to the reform of Guqin. After repeated experiments, design and production, the improved Guqin has been loved and used by the majority of Qin people, and has become a prominent achievement in the history of Guqin instrument development.

Chinese PinYin : Wu Jing Lue