Chapter 1,077 Final Sound

Su You also mentioned in the memorial that the collapse of Tongshan in the west and the response of Luo Zhong in the east is actually a resonance problem.

The ancient Chinese discovered this phenomenon a long time ago. It was mentioned in "Zhuangzi": "To tune the harp, it is useless in one hall and in the same room. The drums and palaces move, and the drums and horns move. The melody is the same. The husband changes it.

When you tune one string, it doesn't match the five notes, but if you play the drum, all twenty-five strings will move."

In the Jin Dynasty, someone kept a copper bath tray, which kept ringing in the morning and evening like someone knocking on it. He asked Zhang Hua, and Zhang Hua told him: "This tray is in harmony with the Luoyang Bell Palace. The bells in the palace are rung in the morning and evening, so the sound is corresponding. It can be wrong.

If the order is light, the rhyme will be good and the singing will stop." As he said, it will no longer sing.

Shen Kuo's experiment is even clearer: first tune the strings of the piano or zither according to the normal playing needs, then cut some small paper figures and stick them on the strings. When you play a certain string without pinching the paper figures,

At this time, any string that resonates with or resonates with it will cause its paper figure to jump and tremble.

Lu Ruo also further discovered that all strings that resonate are on strings with the same pitch or an octave difference.

This further consolidates the chord theory of twelve equal temperaments, and also proves the inevitable feasibility of realizing free rising and transposing in twelve equal temperaments.

These things are all explained very clearly in "Lu Qing Yao". Every scholar-official has a harp and a harp, so it is very simple to prove it.

On Bingchen in the sixth month, an edict was issued: "Huang Zhong and Da Lu should not be too high in purity and not too low in weight, so that the eight tones are harmonious and the singer is calm and able to keep his words. This is called neutrality."

"The ancient music instruments of Zhou Dynasty reappeared, and the new laws of people at that time allowed them to harmonize. This is the harmony between heaven and man, and the past and present are in agreement."

"It is too often that the laws and regulations are not harmonious, but the scholars and officials ignore them, examine the percussion and compositions, and entrust them with no writing. Why not make them elegant? This is Zheng's miscellaneous!"

"Convene a music bureau to review and adjust the Taichang bell, and use the twelve laws to return the palace's laws according to the ceremony, so that the superiors and subordinates are aware of it, and then there is no way for the Zheng sound to be disorderly and elegant."

"As for the Taichang bell chime made by Wang Pu, Li Zhao, and Hu Yuan, there are many stone chimes made of them. Choose the ones that can be repaired and repair them, and those that cannot be repaired will be made separately."

"Test new music to test the skills of those who have discussed it."

Lu Ruo and Wang Congzhi's unique insights and writings on Lu Lu made a qualitative leap in the level of music theory in the Song Dynasty, and they were both rewarded by Zhao Xu.

Wang Congzhi, the Lord of Zhongtaiyi Palace, was given purple clothes and gold belts.

Lu Ruo was canonized as the Lord of Simeng Township by the Song Dynasty court.

She came from a humble background, but relied on her knowledge and cultivation in music theory to earn a living! Lu Ruo became a new legend among the women of the Song Dynasty.

In fact, Zhao Xu is no longer short of money, let alone copper or stone, but Su You's suggestion is to mend the problem for another three years.

The standard tuning fork is placed there. If you file the chimes and repair the stone chimes, you can get the standard tuning.

If you really don't have any leftover, you can make up for it separately, which won't cost much.

The key is that the autumn rites and the winter court meeting can all be kept up with.

This would be the first set of rites and music in the Song Dynasty that could be freely adjusted in rising and falling tones. Many ministers, such as Yang Jie and Wang Cun, raised objections on this point.

Because the ancient ancestors said that the three-point profit and loss method should be used, they believed that not using the three-point profit and loss method would "go against the ancestral system."

But this point is obviously untenable.

The reason is very simple. If you put the twelve equal tempered tubes in a row, you will understand that it is a beautiful curve.

However, the three-point profit and loss legal management used by our ancestors resulted in a straight line.

Curves are the most widespread lines in nature.

The movement trajectories of the sun, moon, stars, rivers, monsoons, and the cycle of the four seasons should all be curves.

Therefore, the twelve-point average is obviously closer to the "way of heaven" than the three-point profit and loss.

Choosing the way of heaven or the system of ancestors is not a difficult multiple-choice question for today's Song Dynasty officials.

In their minds, this is the real retro, the real ancestral system, and the glory and greatness of the past three generations.

Moreover, Su You also put forward a point of view. From a theoretical perspective, this thing is called "error".

The ancestors used the three-point profit and loss method based on their mathematical level at that time, which was already the limit of what they could achieve.

According to his explanation, when the trajectory of a circle or ellipse reaches a certain extent, if you cut out a section of it, it is actually almost the same as a straight line, with only slight differences.

It was in the practice of this theory that the ancients used the three-point profit and loss method, the most sophisticated algorithm at the time, to maximize the correct pronunciation of the temperament.

But the ancestors themselves also knew that there would be errors in this way, and this issue has been mentioned in countless discussions throughout the ages.

From the later Sixty Laws and Three Hundred and Sixty Laws, we can also find evidence that they were committed to solving this problem.

They have been working hard to reduce the error of the tune.

The current Twelve Equal Temperament truly reveals the essence of musical sound, understands its physics, turns straight lines and stepped pitch lines into smooth curves, obtains more precise temperament, and achieves freedom and harmony.

of modulation.

This is not against the ancestral system, but a better inheritance and development of the ancestral system.

It is the inheritance of the ancestors’ persistent pursuit of truth; the comprehensive inheritance of the music theory, mathematics, and temperament summarized by the ancestors; the precise and careful study of the phenomena they discovered; the introduction of more advanced mathematical tools

, only then can one be better than the blue and better than the blue.

What needs to be inherited in the ancestral system is not the rules and regulations, but the ideas and spirit contained in them.

Inheriting the ancestral system is precisely to inherit this precious concept and spirit, rather than sticking to the rules and being rigidly literal.

This view attracted more big shots such as Zhao Pian, Sima Guang, Su Song, and Fan Zhen to write letters to argue and praise it greatly.

Su You was so powerful that he directly took the blame for Yang Jie and Wang Cun, turning the two-part logic of this issue into a progressive logic of "making the ancestral system more in line with the laws of heaven."

In the end, Zhao Xu believed that Su You's theory was completely tenable, could withstand scrutiny, and was generally recognized by today's intellectual elite, and agreed to implement the plan proposed by Su You.

This is a huge victory for Neo-Confucianism, a victory far greater than observatories, clocks, cement factories, and dynamite.

Neo-Confucianism, for the first time, made its own deafening voice in the metaphysical field, became an important part of the Chinese philosophical system, and occupied a considerable high point.

From then on, it can guide social ethics openly, influence the national system, and penetrate into people's lives!

Big figures such as Sima Guang, Wang Anshi, Er Liu, etc. regarded it as a major development and progress of Confucianism and praised it.

And all of this is the huge impact brought by Neo-Confucianism's "rightening of laws and regulations".

The problems that have plagued China for thousands of years have been perfectly solved by Neo-Confucianism! The most upright and beautiful Huang Zhongdalu symbolizes Neo-Confucianism and has officially become a prominent Chinese school!

Even Wang Gui praised Su You when he met everyone and distinguished Su You from the big and small Su.

This is a huge political achievement during his tenure. Su Mingrun is so awesome.

Oracle bone inscriptions trace the origin of characters, and the equal temperament determines the correct Chinese pronunciation!

In his posthumous title after his death, the word "文" was already included in his name!

Therefore, it is completely conceivable how a group of big guys fought hard to get the job from this forum.

Finally, Zhao Xu slapped the table and told him to stop arguing!

For the sake of peace in the court and peace in Qingning, this proposal to propose a music bureau, well... I am reluctant to do it, so I personally accept it!

A group of big bosses were so shocked that they were stunned. Your Majesty, you were not like this before...

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Taixue, Su Mai and Su Chi were discussing this Lu Lu issue with their classmates.

According to Su You's current level, Enyin has a lot of quota.

Not only children, relatives, relatives with foreign surnames, but even servants can recommend two people.

Otherwise, how did the problem of redundant officials in the Song Dynasty come about?

Su You sneered at this and never used such a quota. He recommended talents in the previous chapter, recommending capable people among current officials.

Many people are really unable to do anything, and even the recommenders themselves feel baffled.

Moreover, Su You also stipulated that the Su family should not follow En Yin's path in the future.

However, the Su family valued education, so Su You wrote a letter and sent Su Mai and Su Chi to Taixue.

In fact, Taixue cannot teach two people. Su Chi, for example, has obtained the true inheritance of Zhang Zai and Shao Yong. That is, he is the authentic successor of the Guan Shu School. He is easily qualified to be a teacher in the Imperial College.
Chapter completed!