Viking Hotel, Room 1527.

Chen Zhi held a G-tuning Huayin bamboo flute, followed the accompaniment played on TV, and vigorously played the song "Spring in Zaoyuan". In order to find the stage feeling, he changed into the white performance costume with gold edges that he had made for 150 yuan. This was the most beautiful dress he had ever worn.

The joyful sound of the flute flowed in the room. This brand new flute did not give him any discomfort at all. The comfortable playing experience made him reluctant to let go after getting started. Now his practice time is more than six hours a day, which is two more hours more than before, but it seems much easier than before. In the past two days, he has completely fallen in love with this flute, and even when he sleeps, he has to hold it in his arms, which has become his most precious treasure.

In another room less than ten meters away from him, a little girl with a cute melon-shaped face, eyes as charming as black gemstones, and fluffy ponytail was also holding a bamboo flute and playing a professional bamboo flute ninth level song "Spring in Pamir".

Next to her, a middle-aged beautiful woman was patiently guiding her performance, asking her to stop from time to time and point out the shortcomings of her performance.

This young contestant is from Shanghai, named Luo Jiayu. She is ten years old this year. She is a young contestant in the professional group of the CCTV Folk Music Competition. She is just ten years old and has been learning to play the flute for more than four years. The middle-aged beautiful woman next to her is not her mother or aunt, but her teacher, the famous young bamboo flute player Tang Qiaoqiao.

Tang Qiaoqiao is Luo Jiayu's teacher and a judge of the wind blowing group of this competition. It can be said that it is quite difficult to be able to vote under her. Luo Jiayu is from a good family and smart and smart, and can learn all kinds of music at once. It is precisely because of these conditions that she became Tang Qiaoqiao's favorite disciple at a young age. This time, Luo Jiayu came to the championship of the children's group!

"Jiayu, your playing skills are already very good. As long as you perform stably during the competition, you will definitely achieve good results. The teacher tells you, don't be nervous after you go on stage, just treat it as your usual practice. Do you remember?" Tang Qiaoqiao said to the little girl with a relaxed smile. After teaching her for more than four years, Luo Jiayu can be said to have left a deep impression on her. She believes that as long as you spend time, this child will definitely become a famous bamboo flute artist like her!

"Well, Teacher Tang, don't worry, I will definitely win the first place!" Luo Jiayu said childishly. At the same time, she slightly raised her delicate and cute face, looking like a confident little adult, which made Tang Qiaoqiao and her mother beside her laugh at the same time.

At the same time, in another room, a crying sound of flute was faintly heard through the door.

In the room, it was Chen Yue who came to Huayin Pavilion with Director Wang a few days ago to select bamboo flutes. At this moment, she was wearing a black dress with bare face, her black hair was casually dispersed, holding a C-tuning flute, playing a brand new work.

The sound of the flute is like silk threads, like complaints, and sadness without being hurt, and it feels sad and beautiful.

Suddenly, the sound of the flute turned urgent, and a series of stunning and gorgeous sounds rushed into the clouds like fireworks, bringing people a great auditory impact!

This brand new song is the "Runhong. Guohua" adapted by Chen Yue recently. Based on the original song "Runhong", a B-split variation was added, and there was no surgery to move the original song too much. However, a brand new content was added. This kind of adaptation is the easiest.

The reason for adaptation is that the competition stipulates that original tracks have a score bonus of 0.5 points. Compared with children's group and amateur group, the competition among professional adult groups is much more intense than the previous two groups. The contestants' skills are very exquisite. If they choose classic and traditional tracks, they basically cannot express any novelty and cannot show the uniqueness of the contestants. Because of this, in previous competitions, the contestants from professional adult groups have the most original works. Although most of them cannot reach the level of classics, they can only be at the level of ordinary works, and most of them mainly show off their skills, but this is also impossible. The two hats of "adult, professional" are buckled on their heads, and these people must behave differently from ordinary contestants.

Chen Yue's song "Ran Hong. Guohua" is actually a B-segment show. From the perspective of musical image, the two images are actually not very related, but they just take the classic "fast, slow, fast" rhythm of bamboo flute works.

But for the sake of the competition, Chen Yue had to do so.

There is no professional composer who creates works for bamboo flutes. For such relatively simple folk instruments, almost all professional performers are also composers. But more often, they repeat the works of their predecessors. After all, there are so many classics, and it is not easy to create works such as "The Whip and the Horse and the New Song of the Herdsmen" that have been passed down for decades.

In other rooms, scenes like this are also being staged. The sounds of flutes, erhu, guzheng, pipa... various musical instruments are echoing interlaced. Fortunately, the sound insulation of the Viking Hotel is good, and these contestants are also distributed on the same floor. There is no question of who disturbs whom, otherwise there will be endless complaints about noise in the entire hotel.

With less than two days left before the competition, all the contestants were nervously preparing for the competition. The contestants with conditions even chose expensive recording studios nearby and set up practice.

A tense atmosphere filled the contestants.

Every four years is the highest level in the country. These honors and halos stimulate every contestant. Once they make their mark in the competition, what awaits them will be countless glory. Trophys, performances, signings, advertising endorsements... are summed up in two words, that is - "success".

This temptation of success greatly stimulated every contestant, making them selfless practice, and even more, they used their relationship to try every means to find judges, supervisory audit teams, and organizers to gain some "advantages". Some brokers with powerful talents, various art training institutions, art teachers, and parents of piano children were also moved, and in this grand competition, they were looking for what they needed.

At the same time, folk music fans from all over China are also looking forward to such a four-year event. Although they are few and more distributed throughout the country, not as exaggerated as music fans and fans, they also have their own persistence and loyalty. The four-year competition is a visual and auditory feast for them!

Perhaps they are just old men playing erhu in the park, pulling the "Horse Racing" that can only vaguely hear the basic melody, but they are enjoying it every day. Perhaps they are just music teachers in an ordinary middle school, teaching students recorder and Hulusi classes on the organ for two sessions a day. Perhaps they are just roaming musicians in the subway station in big cities, living in dilapidated and dark basement every day, and can only watch a four-inch old color TV to watch the game.

However, none of these can conceal the fact that they love the competition and folk music. This love is not as strong and popular as the fans of pop singers, but it is better to be loyal, long-lasting, once every four years. They wait on time, expect and long. The musicians on TV who are dressed in bright clothes, elated and skilled are their idols and goals. Every time they hear a song they are familiar with, the excitement and happiness from the heart are beyond imagination.

They live in the world of folk music and enjoy this simple happiness.

Tuesday, July 22, 2014.

This was an extremely stuffy day. The Yanjing Municipal Government issued a yellow warning for high temperatures. The streets were covered with a layer of heat waves, as if they were about to burn people's skin.

But the greater heat wave is brewing and waiting in the hearts of every contestant and every audience member.

In the studio of the CCTV building, contestants in various performance costumes were in a hurry, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, and one by one. Their only destination was one - Studio 12.

There is the final scene of the 2014 Qimei Cup CCTV National Instrumental Competition. Starting today, they will hold a fierce competition for nine days here. Eight preliminaries and one final, among the 139 contestants, eight lucky ones were decided.

String pulling, plucking, blowing, blowing, profession, non-professional group, children's group, group... Those who finally stand among these eighteen people will officially stand at the top of Chinese folk music contestants in the posture of a rookie and enjoy the glory that thousands of people are attracted by!

This is the ultimate dream of every contestant!

The No. 12 Studio Hall, a dedicated studio for CCTV Music Channel, holds at least 100 professional performances or events here every year. The staff are already familiar with the preparation of the competition.

The lobby that can accommodate more than 400 spectators is full, and it is undoubtedly lucky to be able to watch the competition in person. They will watch the superb performances of the top Chinese folk music contestants from close range. For folk music fans, this is a truly top visual and auditory feast!

On one side of the stage, the six-row jury seats with a stepped design are already in place. They are all the leading figures in the current Chinese folk music industry, representing the highest level of Chinese folk music. They will give professional ratings and comments to the contestants.

The off-site commentary seat, the famous German composer Lao Luo, sat casually with the beautiful female host Ren Luyu, waiting for the start of the game!

Folk music fans from all provinces and cities across China adjusted the channel early, waited in front of the TV, and waited for this long-awaited competition!
Chapter completed!