The Guqin major of a university in Shandong only recruits one person this year. Why is this?

This university is Shandong University of the Arts. I think most people, if they don’t read the news, have no idea that there is such a profession as Guqin in the world. In fact, most music colleges do not offer guqin majors, perhaps because it is not easy to learn guqin and the audience is extremely narrow. Therefore, it is very good for Shandong University of Arts to offer the Guqin major. It is also very normal for only one student to be admitted to the Guqin major this year. At the same time, we should also express our respect to this "warrior" who chose the guqin major. Let us wish him in advance to achieve great achievements in the guqin art and contribute his own efforts to inherit and carry forward China's excellent traditional music culture.

But having said that, the Guqin major has only recruited one person, which indeed makes us lament why there are so few. The reason is that our society generally believes that for students in primary and secondary schools, playing music is at best a hobby. Very few parents allow their children to put aside their normal school studies and specialize in a certain field because of their music hobbies. kind of musical instrument. Moreover, it is generally popular in society that art students are students with low IQs and are not serious about learning cultural knowledge. Therefore, because we always tend to learn "hard" knowledge such as Chinese, mathematics, English, physics, chemistry, biology, and politics, history, and geography, we neglect the acquisition of "soft" knowledge such as art, music, and sports, leading to further study in art. There are fewer and fewer classmates, and eventually they become "a handful".

The brave man who chose the guqin major is called Song Liang. He said that he came into contact with the guqin accidentally when he was in elementary school. After that, he developed a very strong interest and planned to practice the guqin well and spread the guqin culture. Promote it. Interest is the best teacher for students on their learning path. I hope that Song Liang can stick to his original intention, train hard, master skills, and develop his own unique playing methods and create music that incorporates modern music elements during his study career at Shandong University of the Arts. The sound of the guqin.

Finally, I would like to congratulate the successor of the Guqin major at Shandong University of the Arts, and wish Song Liang the best to carry forward the Chinese quintessence of Guqin, so that more Chinese people can experience the modern charm of classical music.