Chapter 360: Music and Pseudo-History

Just when Professor Shuimu was once again caught up in various Wang Xu's tossings, Wang Xu, the initiator, was leisurely and contentedly on vacation with Wang Fei.

After returning from the performance, Wang Xu naturally spends a day with his wife, which is also his favorite way to relax. Nowadays, Wang Fei basically no longer enjoys shopping. Instead, the parents of the two families, Wang Xu's mother and Wang Fei's mother, meet up to go shopping from time to time.

The children can earn money, so they throw a lot of it at home. At first, they saved it for the children, but they couldn't bear it and transferred a lot of money from time to time. What should I do? Spend it, the children are too ambitious and it is very worrying. of.

At this time, the imperial capital also had some high-end shopping malls, among which Peninsula Hotel, Guomao and Lufthansa were the most high-end.

Of course, in Wang Xu’s opinion, that’s all. At this time, most of the real luxury goods in the world have not yet entered China. Even the entry-level products in luxury goods only opened their first store in the Peninsula Hotel last year. .

Wang Xu's understanding of these is not even as good as Tang Yun's. She is now familiar with these luxury goods. Since she met Honghuang, she has completely opened another door to fashion.

In the past, the things Wang Xu designed had a strong sense of fashion, but they had a strong youthful flavor. This result is caused by Wang Xu's own preferences. After all, he is very young now and the woman he loves is the same. Naturally, he will not put his limited resources too much into business.

It's not that they don't exist, it's just that they're not that prominent. With the large number of fashion magazines she brought back to China and Tang Yun's tireless collection, she can now be said to have seen most of the international fashion trends.

Only then did she truly understand how advanced Wang Xu's designs were. Many of his highly designed clothes had an even greater impact than those of major international brands.

Honghuang has been a little excited recently, and Tang Yun has been encouraging her to start a business. This girl from the imperial capital has an average appearance, but she has a very good sense of fashion, but she doesn't care about her own clothes at all, which seems very contradictory.

But Tang Yun always felt that she should be able to make achievements in this area. When she told Wang Xu this idea, Wang Xu was a little surprised. This girl's growth rate was completely beyond everyone's imagination. It was simply It's just cheating.

Although she won't shine in the sky like Wang Fei, she can definitely amaze most people in this era.

Therefore, of course Wang Xu agreed. He rarely went to Wang Chao Clothing recently and left it to this girl to take care of it. Since the Xiangjiang branch, she has successfully opened branches in Shanghai and Yangcheng, and even We have already made plans to expand our business in Xiaori.

These shops may not look big, but they are Wang Xu's cash cows. Since they opened, no one has worried about them.

Now she has real plans to enter the field of fashion. Of course Wang Xu supports it. There is no need to mention her salary. However, if Honghuang is willing to work in a fashion magazine, she is indeed a good candidate. After all, she will be known as Known for his fashion commentary, he is a well-known media personality.

At this time, she was still serving as the chief executive in China for a foreign company. She was of Chou nationality, but Wang Xu didn't care much.

Speaking of which, she was also one of the victims of squinting. At that time, the models and celebrities she published for the domestic fashion magazine iLook were basically all well-known in the mainland, including Qu Ying, Zhao Yanzi, Yuan Quan, Mei Ting, etc. They are all Chinese aesthetics with thick eyebrows and big eyes.

Later, Western magazines such as VOGUE and Harper's Bazaar began to enter China. It can be said that they were crushed all the way in the fashion field. Those squinty-eyed models really landed in China. However, even at that time, squinty-eyed models did not become China. Mainstream aesthetics have always been criticized.

But it was at that time that terms such as the so-called high-end face gradually became popular and had a completely different interpretation.

Since then, China has completely lost its right to speak in fashion, and Honghuang has gradually faded out of the fashion circle. Therefore, she gritted her teeth every time she mentioned squinting her eyes.

Let's take it as big as it is, or as small as it is small. After struggling for a long time, people still like fair skin, beauty and long legs. Just let nature take its course. In fact, Wang Xu doesn't value the right to speak about this thing that much in his heart.

Those fashion magazines have been busy promoting it for a long time, but no one has actually done plastic surgery according to that image. Instead, they have all kinds of contact lenses that they have made since childhood. Fake double eyelids are very popular, so he is too lazy to worry about it. He has time to get some drones. It's not good to come out.

But Tang Yun brought it up herself. Since she already has a fashion brand and Honghuang is a good trader, when it comes to wallet issues, she naturally has to support her own people to compete. It's good to earn more, isn't it? .

Therefore, Wang Xu naturally nodded and asked Tang Yun to continue to instigate Honghuang to publish a magazine. Honghuang was a member of the third generation of reds, and his connections in the imperial capital were not comparable to those of Wang Er.

Of course, if you want to have real connections, Wang Xu is the best. If he wants to do something, he will be a real big shot when he comes out of the booth.

But when it comes to second-generation friends and so on, that is the home of the prehistoric era.

Wang Xu knew that Hong Huang would be tempted by this kind of thing sooner or later. She was actually quite good at writing and had enough vision. She had also seen the colorful world overseas, so she could be said to be the best candidate to manage fashion magazines.

Besides, she had just broken up with the big director and was feeling sad. Wouldn't it be appropriate to start a business?

What, what do you think Wang Xu is doing? Haha, he was giving a lecture with his arms around a naked girl. Yes, giving a lecture. This started when Wang Fei started her studies at Yangyin University.

When entering the music school, you have to catch up on some basic knowledge. In addition to basic singing skills and the like, there are also various music appreciation and music history. The two of them talked about something that was quite annoying, well, at least it made Wang Xu sick. things.

At this time, there is actually a big debate in China in the music and historical circles, and that is where the seventh tone comes from.

Everyone knows the five notes of Huaxia Gong Shang Jiao Zhengyu, but most modern temperaments use the seventh-order, 1234567 calibration method, which is the so-called seventh-order temperament.

The Western music industry believes that China's seven tones were later transmitted from Buddhism, but they cannot explain when or how they were transmitted. As for the Chinese music industry, there are some who believe it and some who don't. It's okay, after all, even if it was passed down, it was two thousand years ago.

However, many ancient Chinese tunes have been lost, and many pieces of music recorded in ancient books have been lost. There are few direct written records that can prove where the seven tones came from.

This is also an example of China’s emphasis on lyrics and depreciation of music. Many lyrics have been famous through the ages, but the music has been almost lost. Of course, this is also because words are easier to preserve and are known to more people. However, the loss of those ancient songs is also It has to be a pity.

Everyone says that Chinese music has five tones, but what’s interesting is that in fact, very few of the music scores handed down from China use only five tones. Instead, they use a lot of half tones, and the overall situation shows that both six tones and seven tones exist.

It's not that Jasmine has pure five notes, but not much.

The so-called fifth-order temperament is a popular saying in modern times. In ancient China, it was said that the five tones are not complete, which refers to the five tones of Gong Shangjiao and Zhengyu, but the two semitones of 47 are hidden.

Because these two sounds are incomplete, they sound sad, depressed, and lack a sense of grandeur. They are not liked by scholar-bureaucrats, and are often ignored on purpose.

Well, you see that Xiaozhi especially likes to use those two tones, but the ancient music of Xiaozhi is also transmitted from China. If China has five tones, where did they learn those two tones?

Five tones or seven tones, in fact, China has already concluded that the five tones are the correct tones and are favored by literati and officials.

The other two tones are semitones, which make them feel depressed when they hear them, so they are disgusted by them. This is why the theory of five tones is born.

But that doesn’t mean that those two tones are not used in ancient Chinese music. In the tomb of Marquis Zeng Yi of the Warring States Period unearthed in 1977, a set of national treasure-level bronze cultural relic variants were unearthed. That thing has 5 octaves and uses seven Music was introduced much earlier than the legendary time when it was introduced with Buddhism.

Wang Xu even felt that Qiyin was originally invented and spread by China. After all, the history that can be traced back is too long.

However, this era was one of the times when the Chinese nation lacked self-confidence. Most of the Western music writings believed that Chinese music was five-note, and therefore questioned that Chinese music was barren.

When Westerners questioned it, the first reaction of Chinese scholars was not to scold them, but to immediately go back and reflect on whether we really couldn't do it.

This led to the ridiculous five-note and seven-note dispute during this period, but this was not the biggest point of controversy. After all, no matter who invented it, it was not invented by the West.

The real dispute is in another important area of ​​music, that is, whether the fifth tone or the seventh tone needs to be tuned, that is, how to calibrate the accurate musical tone.

The so-called five tones and seven tones are actually not just a music problem, it is also a mathematical problem.

Whether a sound sounds good or not is determined by the human ear and related brain. Research shows that this is related to the frequency of the sound.

If a string can produce a pleasant sound, then half the length of the string must also be suitable.

This is the original and simplest cognition of the ancients, but to explain it mathematically, if a frequency is pleasant to the ear, then its multiple frequency must also be pleasant to the ear.

It can also be deduced from this that triples and quadruples of this frequency are also pleasant to the ear. These multiples are what is now called an octave.

To define the five tones within an octave, you need to use the three-point gain and loss method. It is a very old method and is quite troublesome to explain, but it does conform to the laws of mathematics and is quite beautiful.

These five correct tones can be obtained through this method, but the two tones 4 and 7 cannot. Therefore, until now, China has not figured out how the tomb of Zeng Houyi was determined.

This problem has actually troubled the Chinese people for a long time, until Zhu Zaiyu, a prince of the Ming Dynasty, invented the law of twelve equals. I won’t go into details here, because it is much more complicated than the three-point profit and loss method.

Someone built a large abacus with 81 positions, manually calculated the 12th root of 2, and calculated the string length ratio between each note as 1.059463094359295264561825.

That's right, 24 decimal places, the magical ancestors of China.

Only then did the 7th tone really find its place. This equal temperament was later spread to the West through the hands of missionaries, and this led to the explosion of the entire Western music.

Well, a scientist who likes music changed the world just like that.

Until now, the equal temperament of twelve is still the most important tuning method in the field of music. The modern definition is that 440Hz is defined by the International Organization for Standardization as 6 in the key of C, and then other scales are calculated based on the equal temperament of twelve.

Of course, music is inherently different from person to person, and slight differences in frequency are difficult for most people to perceive. Some paranoid symphony orchestras define 442 or 443Hz as 6, but there is nothing they can do about it.

Our ancestors had such a great achievement, and obviously Westerners benefited from it, but in retrospect, they told us that it was Bach of the Baroque who invented the twelve-tone equal temperament, because Bach wrote the "Well-Tempered Clavier".

But the problem is that the twelve-tone equal temperament is a mathematical achievement, not a musical achievement. How did a musician who had never studied mathematics calculate the golden ratio of 1.06?

The answer is actually very obvious. It was passed on by the Chinese. At least most of the Chinese people think so. If you check Baidu Encyclopedia, you can also see this result.

But even in the future before Wang Xu traveled through time, this conclusion was still criticized by many Westerners. They did not recognize the wisdom of the Chinese ancestors and stubbornly believed that it was the musician Bach who invented this mathematical law.

Therefore, the Western pseudo-history theory that has been a hot topic on the Internet in later generations is really not the fault of the Chinese people for being hypocritical. In fact, they have done too many things like this.

The later generations questioned Aristotle. The West has not done anything yet, and a group of big Vs in China have attacked him.

It's the same questioning, why do we rush to prove ourselves and look for evidence everywhere when others question us, and we want to dig up all of China.

When we question others, we still have to find evidence ourselves. Shouldn't they provide evidence?

Wang Xu doesn't know whether Aristotle is real, but he really knows how far the West can go to fabricate some life stories. When it comes to the Middle Ages, even most of the noble genealogies in the West are forged.

They have no habit of recording history at all. Before paper and printing were introduced to the West, there were few literate people in the entire West.

Even many pastors point to the Bible and explain it blindly, because they don't know it either. Relying on the Bible copied by hand on parchment, how many literate people can be cultivated?

So Wang Xu really doesn't hesitate to speculate on the West with the greatest malice. Imagine their bronze sword last week and straw basket last year. Wang Xu really feels a bit of a waste of saliva when complaining.

Even so, there are a group of big Vs who claim to be knowledgeable and well-informed to tell you that it takes a thousand years to dry and ten thousand years to wet, and it only takes half a year to be neither dry nor wet.

I don't care whether he is dry or wet, any ancient site in China has countless accompanying cultural relics unearthed. If you look around, there must be houses, ditches, streets, and even ruins of city walls.

If you are lucky, you can even find a workshop that makes that thing. Why can they only dig one no matter what, and the others are only made in this place, right?

In Wang Xu's view, the history of the entire Western world is a bunch of myths in front of Chinese history, not even a novel. At least novels still have to pay attention to the beginning, development, transition, and cause and effect logic.

Even so, they are still questioning the existence of the Xia Dynasty in China. Until later generations, it is still written in major encyclopedias that the Xia Dynasty is unconfirmed, even though China has verified the capital of Xia.

If it weren't for the discovery of oracle bones, even the Shang Dynasty would be considered non-existent by the skeptics.

At this moment, the Chinese archaeological community has not completed the excavation of the Erlitou site, so it is extremely mocking of China's 5,000-year-old culture. Wang Xu has the urge to kick them even if he experiences it again.

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(See you tomorrow)