swordmeanmm

Chiba and Guqin are China’s earliest pipe instrument and string instrument. Chiba is made of a piece of 55-centimeter long bamboo root. Guqin is made of seven silk strings and paulownia wood. On October 24, 2009, Dandeli Art Space will invite young musicians Xing Zhe, Xiao Yinqing and Xiao Yunzi to tell stories about Chiba and Guqin and play these two instruments in live. This performance will provide a good opportunity to understand traditional Chinese culture.

   

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Time: Saturday, October 24, 2009


3.00 - 3.30pm    Registration

3.30 - 4.20pm    Presentation on the history and culture of Chiba and Guqin


4.20 - 4.35pm    Tea Break


4.35 - 5.30pm    Chiba and Guqin performance




To make a reservation please contact: 67708966-9/1032



Organizer: Dandeli Art Space www.dandeliarts.com




Address: Image Base Beijing, Northwest corner, No.1 Building, No.3 Guangqu Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing




Driving Directions: Image Base Beijing, Northwest corner, No.1 Building, No.3 Guangqu Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing
Driving Directions: From the Dajiaoting Bridge on the Fourth Ring Road, drive east along Guangqu Road past three traffic lights (about 1,700 meters far). Keep going straight ahead, then turn around to the west before reach an overhead road. After driving 200 meters going west, you will see the Image Base on the northern side of the road. Inside the Image Base, go straight north, turn to the left at the second intersection, and turn to the left again till you reach the end. Dandeli Art Space is located at the building  with the green square flag




Bus lines:  Take Bus No.11 at the southeast of Guomao, get off at the stop named Xiaohaizi, and you will find the Image Base across the street to your right hand.

swordmeanmm

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22-10-2009 15:23

Chiba (尺八),an ancient musical instrument of China

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22-10-2009 15:23

hanfu (汉服) ,the traditional costume of Chinese people

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22-10-2009 15:23

coffee

wow! the cool boy in the last photo looks like a Japanese
how about the other two artist? do you have their photos?

swordmeanmm

Actually the cool boy in the last photos is 100% a Chinese ,  
And the Japanese clothes is deeply influenced by our Chinese culture  since Tang Dynasty.
You can see the three artists this Saturday afternoon

pneumatic

WOW ,so coooool

Longshan

Hello! Swordmeanmm, I am a shakuhachi player so I must correct your comment. The photo that you posted of the "chiba" are entirely Japanese style flutes. The chiba, before entering in to Japan was from China, but the form was actually quite thin (3 cm in diameter) and had 6 holes. It was mainly used in court music and was imported into Japan in that form around the 6th-7th century (Tang dynasty). I believe the mouthpiece was originally a "V" cut in ancient China. When it came into Japan it was modified into a "U" shape. There may be some linguistic and aestheitic reasons for this change but this is just speculation at this point. This Tang dynasty shakuhachi used in the court eventually was phased out but in the 16th century the shakuhachi emerged again and in the 17th century Zen Buddhist monks modified the form of the flute even further by using thicker, root ended pieces of bamboo and using only 5 holes (not 4 holes that Anthony Tao mentioned in his article.) And then at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries (Meiji) the shakuhachi went through further transformation when makers started to make 2-piece flutes and fashion the bore of the flute with gypsum paste (tonoko) and lacquer (urushi) to increase the volume and dynamics of the flute, concentrating more on standard pitch rather than the tone color of the past. Anyway, the flutes that Xing Zhe played are Japanese-style shakuhachi (chiba). It may be that with the great popularity of the Japanese shakuhachi design and the vast amount of music that has been created within the last several hundred years, it has no doubt influenced Chinese bamboo flute players! But there is no doubting its Chinese origins

[ Last edited by Longshan at 21-11-2009 19:17 ]