Chapter 88 Elegance is not a pretense, the grandson is
Just when Wu Minxia and Zhang Pingyun were uneasy in the audience, the sound of the zheng on the stage went from high to low. After the last few light notes slowly flowed out, the sound was finally unheard. The song "Spring River Moon Night" was played here and it was over.
Guo Dalu moved his feet gently away from the guzheng and got up and put on his shoes.
Just as he was wearing his shoes, everyone in the audience finally came to their senses, and suddenly, tides of applause sounded from the audience. The audience stood up and applauded while applauding. For a moment, they didn't know what words to use to describe the shock and admiration from the heart.
"Damn it, I'm so exhausted!"
After playing this song by Guo Dalu, he felt exhausted both physically and mentally. However, after taking a deep breath, the internal air flowed and suddenly became energetic again.
He stood on the stage and looked at Wu Minxia who was sitting not far from the stage, "Teacher Wu, how about my song? Why don't you comment?"
Wu Minxia stood up and looked at Guo Dalu with a pale face. She wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say for a moment.
Zhang Pingyun next to him secretly pulled her sleeve, winked at her, and said softly: "Acknowledge your mistake!"
Although Wu Minxia is both in her forties, she has a superb appearance and outstanding talent. Therefore, her noble character has remained unchanged for decades, especially after being named a national first-class performer, she has become more proud of herself in her nobleness.
She either learns calligraphy to cultivate her mind or reads ancient books to increase her knowledge. Over time, she feels that she is getting closer and closer to the ancient elegant people, and she feels that everyone around her is vulgar. Therefore, her behavior becomes closer to the imagined "elegant people", and becomes twice as noble as she becomes.
In fact, not only Wu Minxia has this mentality, but also Zhang Pingyun has this tendency.
In order to promote traditional culture, modern society continues to "elegantly" praise traditional music, especially silk string instruments, in publicity, as if after learning these, they will naturally become taller.
This is an extremely subtle herd mentality. Under the "packaging" of this environment, some people who learn traditional silk and bamboo instruments have not learned the skills, but they have learned the "elegant and arrogant" style.
But some people just like their own tricks, thinking that they are "single, high-definition, elegant, and different from vulgarity", and instead praise them more.
But in Guo Dalu's eyes, a true master will never be so shallow. If you just hold up the air and become a master, then this "master" is not bad.
There is a saying in Guo Dalu’s memory, “A person should not be arrogant, but he should not be without pride.” Guo Dalu deeply agrees with this sentence.
What is pride?
The arrogance in the bones is called arrogance!
A pretentious arrogance like Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia is not called arrogance, but a pretentious person!
Guo Dalu is both civil and military. After the age of 18, in order to improve his practical combat capabilities, he challenged the hidden masters of various sects in the martial arts world all the way during winter and summer vacations. In the past ten years, except for being lying down by the old bull in Wudang Mountain, the rest of the battle has never been defeated.
Later, after he graduated from college and took the postgraduate entrance examination, he made his mark in the legal profession. In two years, he became a gold medal, reaching a height that many of his peers could not reach in their lifetime.
Whether civil and military, there are very few peers who can reach the height of Guo Dalu in this world, and even rare in the world.
Later, because of his second uncle, he fought a big lawsuit with a group of people. Although he won the lawsuit, he offended a large group of big people and was restricted to leaving at will in Baolan City. Even his savings were frozen. In the end, he was poor and could only kill pigs and sell meat at home and make a meat vendor.
But even so, he never lowered his head and cried out in pain, nor did he blame others.
If you really want to talk about arrogance and pride, the ten Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia are not as good as one Guo Dalu!
Therefore, what Guo Dalu looked down upon most in his life was Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia, who pretended to be elegant and aloof, was angry today, and then he took the stage to perform his skills and humiliate the two in public.
Now that the song "Spring River Moon Night" has been played, Guo Dalu felt a little regretful amid the thunderous applause from everyone in the audience, "What am I doing for this limelight? I'm in trouble now!"
The value of these two songs he played just now is immeasurable in the music industry. Now that he is playing it in public with pleasure, it will probably spread throughout the music industry in less than a day. At that time, I guess he will never have peace of mind.
But since the matter has been done, regret is useless. I thought to myself: "Don't do it, I will pour oil on the gourd! At this point, what else can I worry about? Keep doing it} Damn!"
He stood on the stage and looked at Wu Minxia. Just as he was about to say a few sarcastic words, he saw Wu Minxia standing up from the stage and bowing deeply to him, "Teacher Guo, my attitude was wrong just now, please forgive me. I don't know that you have such a deep attainment in traditional music."
She said with a shame: "You are at a true master level. I am far from Teacher Zhang! You don't remember the villain, let us go!"
Guo Dalu didn't expect that both of them would surrender so quickly. He glanced at Wu Minxia, "What does it mean to let you go? Should I really arrest you to prison? Then I must have the ability!"
He said this and added another sentence, "If you don't even respect your job, it's not called being noble, it's incompetent!"
Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia looked ashamed. Even the teachers next to them who participated in the performance rehearsal felt a fever on their faces and were secretly glad.
When Guo Dalu told them that he wanted to make some suggestions, Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia had a bad temper and rushed to the front and started to fight with Guo Dalu. In fact, if Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia did not stand out, the other teachers would also choke with Guo Dalu.
Even if an amateur pig killer has been a director and written this book, the music teachers present looked down upon it a little.
Now that Guo Dalu is on stage to perform, after the two songs are played, the music teachers on the scene are not disgusted with Guo Dalu's character, but no one has any controversy over his musical attainments.
Now seeing him teaching Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia a lesson on stage, the other music teachers were also shocked while being grateful, "How did he do it?"
At this time, Guo Dalu had already walked to Mike in the center of the stage and said to everyone: "Some people say that music is an elegant art, but no matter how elegant the art is, the performers are always ordinary people. The true art is always rooted in ordinary people, rather than a towering tower in the sky! I hope that all the teachers and students present can steadily draw nutrients from the cultures of all classes to enrich themselves when learning to play music, instead of acting exaggerated and self-righteous."
He said this and said to everyone: "Just like some so-called literati, after going abroad for further study, they feel that they are becoming different, they feel that they are superior, and they always call them Greek. They keep promoting the profoundness of Western culture, but they don't even understand their own national culture. It's simply inexplicable!"
"There is also a bad habit in the music industry. Before I learned my basic skills well, I started to take the airs off my head, and felt that I was no longer a vulgar person, and I was more psychologically superior. I would like to ask, who gave you such confidence?"
Guo Dalu scanned the audience while talking. Anyone who was scandalized by him would bow his head. Even Wang Xiaolu and Song Qian were embarrassed and dared not look directly at Guo Dalu.
The two of them usually think that learning music is very elegant, and they usually have a little aloof thought. At this time, they both felt a little ashamed when they heard Guo Dalu say this.
Guo Dalu's voice continued to sound in the hall, "There is a couplet, which I think is very interesting. I want to give it to everyone. This couplet is: reeds on the wall, with heavy heads and light feet and shallow roots; bamboo shoots in the mountains, with sharp mouths and thick skin and hollow belly!"
"I am not satisfied with my own bottle and I am swaying half of it. What can you be proud of?"
He said this and said to Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia: "I just quarreled with the two teachers, and my behavior on stage was a bit too extreme. Here I apologize to the two teachers. Although your performance level is not as good as a master, it is still more than enough to be a teacher!"
Zhang Pingyun and Wu Minxia looked at each other, and both breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Guo Dalu had let his family go.
Finally, Guo Dalu said: "If you understand music, you will be elegant? If you understand literature, you will be elegant? If you know music, you will be elegant? If you are piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, wine, flowers, are they really more elegant than firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea? I don't think so! You have even abandoned the most basic life, who will you show your elegance?"
"Elegance is not something that can be pretended, grandson is what can be done!"
Chapter completed!