Inscriptions on Guqin and Qianlong's Ya Zheng Guqin Music View
In the early Qianlong period,Qianlong,along with seven Hanlin Ci officials including Chen Bangyan and Liang Shizheng,carried out multiple inscriptions on the old and newly carved gu qin in the palace.This batch of inscribed poetry and prose works had a variety of genres,a large number,and commonly uses the method of metaphor,reflecting the delicate,pretty,and elegant literary and artistic aesthetics of the gu qin in the early Qianlong period.In his multiple inscriptions on the gu qin,Emperor Qianlong continuously established its outstanding status and elucidated the Confucian connotation of harmony and restraint in the gu qin,reflecting his consistent ya zheng gu qin music view.The large-scale activity of inscribing on the gu qin demonstrated the dual intentions of Qianlong as a political figure in poetry and music education.
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