Hu Jia Hú Jiā Mongolian edges gas alarms instruments. Folk called Chor, Modu Chor. Popular in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Ili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture Altay region. Otherwise the same people, actors and writers, the following were described in detail.
Legend
According to legend, when the Western Jin Dynasty had a patriotic generals Liu Kun, good blow Hu Jia. AD 307 years, and served as governor Liu Kun, stationed in Jinyang city. On one occasion, surrounded by tens of thousands of Hun soldiers Jinyang sternly. Liu Kun Xianshibumiao as recklessly with the enemy, must defeat city break, so tight defense side, one side repair book request reinforcements. After seven days reinforcements have not reached, the city forage incompetent, panic-stricken soldiers. Liu Kun boarded the tower, bowel balcony outside enemy camp, wrestling countermeasures, he can not help but shouts and cries, he cries and shouts reached Hun barracks, the Hun soldiers awakened. Hun barracks issued a commotion. Then he suddenly remembered the time when Xiang Yu’s eight thousand horses were “besieged” sing the story of defeat, then ordered the sergeant will blow leaf dressed all arrive the next report, and soon formed a band dressed toward the enemy camp there blew, “Hu Jia five get.” They blew both sadness, and plaintive, Hun army soldiers heard commotion. At midnight, once again blowing this melody, Hun soldiers homesick, all weeping tears while back.
Phylogeny
Qin and Han Dynasty, our ancestors invented the original Hu Jia, it is the double reed reed leaf roll shape or round shape of the spinal canal, the first end of the flattening of the reed, reed, tube hybrid integration of wind instruments (left one) . “Tai Ping Yu Lan” (Kango eighty-one) contains: “Jia who barbarian volume Ashiba blowing with merry too, so that the said Hu Jia.” “Folk Poetry” and also: “Volume is blowing Lu Jia.” Jin Fu Xuan “Jia Fu order” in there: “reed leaves sound” of the sentence. “Jia” character in the Han Dynasty as “reed” word. “Said the text” contains: “reed, reed did not show”, “the reed, reed too big.” Jin Guo Pu said: reed, reed, reed words refer to the same kind of plant. The original Hu Jia, has been used for war. Have been widely popular in the Western Han Dynasty Saibei and Western area.
With the development of society, history has emerged a variety of shapes of Hu Jia. The tube body first by Ashiba reed pipe to body shape and single-tube gas alarms Uygur double reed instrument Balamand (also known as Phi) is similar to the reed tube top after flattening was double reed-shaped tube body and Reed is still one, the difference is that they do not have to open by the sound hole tube. Subsequently, there has been open reed and pipe identity Hu Jia, still use the reed pipe production, with a broken reed can be replaced at any time, without having to replace the tube body.
There are two Han Hu Jia. One is separated from the tube body and reed, reed system (there are wooden tube body), pipe on the opening three holes Hu Jia (Figure 142 fourth from left), popular in the vast Mongolian regions. Another after Zhang Qian Western incoming wooden tube body, three-hole, Lo dressed as spring, popular in the vast Central Plains Han areas, which Hu Jia Jin after seven holes Hichiriki gradually being replaced.
The Tang Dynasty, prevailed with sheep bones or horns for the tube, the tube body nonporous sorrow Jia, Hu Jia is shorter than the tube body (Figure 142, third from right). Ai Jia Lu Bu advocate for this music, popular Saibei and along the Hexi Corridor, has been handed to the Song Dynasty. About sorrow Jia Tang Dynasty, many scholars left the immortal verse. Wang had made liangzhou Jiedushi, in his “double yellow swan song farewell” wrote: “sad tears hanging costumes Liao Jia, Xi Bin For bulk complex dependencies.” Mu in the “edge Wen Jia three” in: “Where blown wars twilight days, cold wall Takatori not smoke signals.”
Qing Dynasty, the court advocate “quartet music”, was drawn from the Altay region to the Mongolian Ministry of Tannu Horqin grassland, composed of Mongolia Harqin palace band, which is the court of the Qing Dynasty, “the Mongolian Ministry blown wars.” Use of Hu Jia, “Dynasty ritual schemata” contains its shape as: “woodwind three holes, both ends of angle, while the upper end of Alice, mouth duo (mouth).” (Second from right), “History of Qing Dynasty” also has : Hu Jia, woodwind, three-hole, two feet four inches long records. Such Hu Jia, the lower tube body has opened three equidistant round at the sound hole, and imitate mourning ends HSET wars shape, shaped like a thin and long horns, upper Shi nozzle angle, changing two-man play for the edges, the tube Termination under mouth curved upward horn trumpet to expand the volume. It has been used in Inner Mongolia, the band around the palace. Finally canceled claw ends, becoming today’s Hu Jia.
Structure
Wooden three-hole Hu Jia, spread in the Mongolian folk, by ordinary herdsman’s favorite. In 1985, the academics in the Altay region hoarse Figure Handa discovered the Mongolian Autonomous County of Hu Jia, to be called the “Altay dressed.” Wooden tube body, tube length 58.5 cm, diameter 1.8 cm, bottom opened a three round by the sound hole, the upper nozzle no reed.
Playing, vertical tube body position, hands holding tube, hands index finger, middle finger put three sound holes respectively. Close to the upper end of the nozzle lip, inflatable pronunciation. Be issued 12 degrees pentatonic. Use more guttural playing, often guttural sounds combined with the sound at the same tube or pipe leads with guttural sounds. Pronunciation soft, rich, mellow, deep. Unique musical skills, good at playing the Mongolian long-tune song. Can be used for solo, instrumental ensemble or orchestra accompaniment, is full of rich ethnic wind instrument.
Eighteen beat
Songs Description:
Han chaos, successive years of war, Wenji (Cai Yan, the word Zhao Ji, Yong’s daughter) in fleeing the Huns captives, living beyond the Great Wall, and later with Zuoxian became man and wife, gave birth to two children. In Beyond the Great Wall she spent twelve years during all the time but she was homesick. Cao Cao put down the Central Plains, and the Huns repaired and sent the wrong road used heavily redeemed Wenji, so she wrote the famous poem “eighteen beat,” I said his misadventures. Melodies in the “big Hu Jia,” “Little Hu Jia”, “eighteen beat” Qin Zither versions. Although the tunes are different, but all reflect Wenji road homesick but could not bear being separated from the extreme pain of contradictory feelings. Music euphemism sad, tear enterohepatic.
“Eighteen beat” Legend has it that Cai Yan made, but did not receive reliable research.
Writer
Brief introduction
Gender: Male
Date of birth: 1942
Nationality: Han
Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Communist Party members. 1960 graduated from Southwest University of Finance and Economics. Former Chengdu Music Dance Theatre creative staff, “Young Writers” magazine poetry editor leader, “to the world,” deputy editor, Sichuan Literary Federation creative research director, deputy editor. Chinese Writers Association, Sichuan Branch of the Third Board of Directors and the fourth and fifth member of the presidium. 1958 began to publish works. 1983 joined the Chinese Writers Association.
The work
His works include the “oil waves flowers”, “fragrance oil sea”, “Tanglei strings”, “green water Hongfan”, “yesterday’s Elegy” (cooperation), “color mood”, “Dreams and outside the 3000 lines, “poetry” umbrella “,” Wangjianglou “, editor of” Poet’s Love Poems “,” China Petroleum Poems “,” Tibetan costumes spectacle “,” brilliant century – Fourth China Art Festival ” .
Poetry “Long March team kettle” won 1981 Outstanding Award of Sichuan Province, narrative poem “Bamboo Soul” won the first national photographic fiction TV Grand Prix second, poems “Black Sea”, “color emotions” were awarded Sichuan Province, the second and third prize of excellent works and Chengdu Golden Lotus first and second outstanding literary award.
