Chapter 264: Five tones, six rhythms, seven tones and eight winds
When that rhythm sounded in the green mountains, it naturally attracted attention.
The green eagle lying quietly on the top of the mountain opened his eyes and looked towards the stream in the valley.
The green eagle suddenly transformed into a young man with a jade pendant around his waist.
He called out to the valley: "So happy!"
Chen Changsheng raised his head and looked up, saw the man standing on the top of the mountain, and responded with a smile: "Would you like to come down and talk?"
I saw the man on the top of the mountain leaping down lightly, his body like catkins falling slowly.
It landed on the long bamboo, causing some waves. Chen Changsheng took half a step back, and the two of them stood on either side, and then stabilized.
Chen Changsheng looked at the person in front of him. His hair was hanging down, his brows were a little sharp, he was wearing a short green and black robe, and he was holding a piece of white jade at his waist.
Just listen to the man say: "Most people who enter the Demon Realm have a narrow escape from death. You are really brave, and you actually have the heart to travel around and sing in this valley."
Chen Changsheng smiled and said: "What's different in the world? Where can't you go?"
A glimmer of light flashed in the man's eyes and he said, "Well said!"
Then he said: "My name is Qingtian You, and I sit everywhere in the Demon Realm with no fixed place."
Chen Changsheng cupped his hands and said: "Chen, whose name is called Changsheng, sits in Liuyun Temple in the human world."
"From the human world?" Qingtian You was a little surprised.
Chen Changsheng smiled and said: "This world is not that world."
"oh?"
Qingtianyou asked: "What's the difference?"
Chen Changsheng said: "If you look beyond this world, you can see the realm of the human world."
After hearing this, Qingtian You said: "What you said is to make people guess. I never like to beat around the bush. It doesn't matter whether it's the human world or not."
Chen Changsheng nodded and said, "That's right."
Qingtian You smiled and said, "The rhyme you just sounded was very nice. Did it come from the human world?"
"That's right." Chen Changsheng nodded.
"Why are you singing?"
Qing Tianyou tried to hum a few words, "Since ancient times, flowers have always been beautiful, and the moon has never been round..."
"Which one is better, the lyrics or the tune?" Chen Changsheng asked.
Qingtianyou thought for a while and said: "Of course..."
He paused and said, "Everything is fine."
"Whether it's missing words or rhyme, the taste will be different. You need to balance both."
After hearing this, Chen Changsheng asked: "Is music also emerging in the demon realm?"
Qingtian You smiled and said: "I heard some in the past years, and then I thought about it myself. It's a pity that the rhythm of the demon realm is not comparable to that of the human world, only a little."
Chen Changsheng hummed and said, "It's a pity that Chen is not good at this technique either. He has only heard a little bit about it in the past years and still remembers it now."
"Is this so..."
Qingtian You looked a little disappointed after hearing this.
Chen Changsheng immediately said: "It seems that you like Yunqu very much."
"I'm just interested." Qingtianyou said, "Just like you did just now, you responded to the scene, the person, the lyrics, and the rhyme of the music, which aroused what you were thinking in your heart."
"Yunqu is meant to reveal people's hearts." Chen Changsheng said with a smile.
"Exactly."
Qingtian You said: "It's just a pity. I also asked you to ask for some advice. No mortal has come to this demon realm for a long time. There was one before, but it's a pity that I don't understand anything."
Chen Changsheng thought for a while and asked: "But I don't know how much you have figured out on your own?"
There is something to say about this Qingtian Tour.
"The first time I heard it was at the Demon King's Banquet. The ritual music at that time was to the tune of water beating and shaking sand, which was quite shocking. Later, I perched on a cliff in the forest and realized it while listening to the rain. The rain was hitting the leaves and the cliff.
The rhymes on the walls are all different."
With that said, Qingtianyou took out five jade cups.
After putting them down, the five jade cups stood firmly on the long bamboo.
Then he led a few strands of stream water into the jade cup and took out a small iron stick.
"Listen to this."
Qingtian Youpan sat down and tapped the first cup.
"Boom..."
Chen Changsheng looked at him, feeling a little dazed for a moment.
"Listen to this one again."
"when……"
Qing Tianyou took back his hand and said: "The amount of water in the cup determines the rhyme. I divide it into five rhymes, lower-lower rhyme, lower-upper rhyme, flat rhyme, upper-lower rhyme and upper-upper rhyme, five rhymes.
"
Qingtianyou immediately started tapping the jade cups back and forth.
Tone turns into rhythm and music.
"Ding, dong, dong..."
The tools used were extremely crude, but they produced a free-flowing sound, like green mountains and flowing water.
Chen Changsheng also sat down cross-legged, listened to him finish the song, and asked: "Did you realize all of this yourself?"
Qingtianyou nodded and said: "Not bad."
Chen Changsheng came to his senses and said: "Your five rhymes are the same as the five rhymes in the world."
After hearing this, Qingtian You paused and asked, "Five tones?"
"Yes." Chen Changsheng said: "Many years ago, human musicians divided the five tones into palaces, Shangjiao, Zhengyu, as the keynote of the music. But just these five tones took countless years and people's efforts.
It was just decided.”
"really!?"
There was light in Qingtian You's eyes.
Chen Changsheng nodded and said, "You have an incredible talent for music."
Qing Tianyou laughed loudly and said: "That's it, that's it. I can actually compare to so many people. I thought I only saw a little bit, but I didn't expect it to be like this."
Chen Changsheng said: "The five tones are almost the same as your five rhymes. In this demon realm, you are unprecedented."
Qing Tianyou coughed and said, "That's not the case."
He came to his senses and asked, "Is there anything else?"
Chen Changsheng nodded and said: "Actually, at the beginning, the five tones were not perfect, so later on, two more tones, Bian Gong and Bian Zheng, were added, which were called seven tones, and there were also six yang rhythms among the six tones and twelve tones.
As a supplement, there are also gold, stone, silk, bamboo, gourd, earth, leather, and wood as textures to create the sound called the Eight Winds..."
The light in Qingtian You's eyes became more and more obvious as he listened to these words.
"Quick, talk to me quickly."
Chen Changsheng thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "If I want to be more specific, I'm afraid I can't explain it clearly to you. After all, I'm not good at music and rhyme, I just know it."
Qingtian You opened his mouth and said, "It's okay, just tell me what you know."
"Then let me give you an example, Chen."
"Give me an example?" Qingtianyou glanced at him doubtfully.
Chen Changsheng raised his hand and led a ray of golden light towards the bamboo forest beside the stream.
A slender bamboo joint was cut off by the golden light and brought back to Chen Changsheng's hands.
Qing Tianyou watched Chen Changsheng playing with the long bamboo in his hand, and saw that he had penetrated the long bamboo and then drilled several holes in it.
Chen Changsheng looked at the scrawled bamboo flute in front of him and nodded, then put it to his mouth.
"Woo..."
When this sound rang in Qingtian You's ears.
He immediately froze on the spot.
"How could it be like this!!"
Chen Changsheng tried to play a few notes, then put it down and said: "Chen just knows how to play these syllables. It would be a bit difficult for Chen to make it into a song."
With that said, he handed the bamboo flute in his hand to Qingtianyou.