The Guangling Qinpai Cultural And Ecological Study

The Guangling School of Guqin is one of the most important schools of Guqin in Qing Dynasty, it has had the profound influence to present age Guqin culture's development of our country. The formation of Guangling School of Guqin and its characteristic has close relation of the politics,economy,culture of our country and many aspects of the regional economy,culture of YangZhou in initial period of Qing Dynasty. The Guangling School of Guqin also has had influence to the regional culture of YangZhou.The esthetics thought of The Guangling School of Guqin formed under the influence of academic thought and esthetic idea at that time.The music form and style of the Guangling School of Guqin also formed under these intangible culture.Theory of Qi holded the remarkable status in philosophy of Qing Dynasty, and the emotion had been paid attention in esthetics ideological trend in middle and late part of Ming Dynasty,which had made The Guangling School of Guqin regarding theory of Qi and theory of nature and emotion as the ontology of Guqin music.Under the influence of the YuShan School of Guqin in End of the Ming dynasty,the Guangling School of Guqin has paid attention to the esthetic categories such as"ancient","pale","elegant",certainly this phenomenon also has relation to the thought of restoring the ancient and Zen.The music style of Guangling School of Guqin can be descripted by"Unconstrained changeable, beautiful and exquisite, firm between gentle, having both sound and flavor".One of the formation reasons of the style is the common influence of the South and North culture.The Guangling School of Guqin has paid attention to both Dao of Guqin and Guqin skills, stressed both the thought and musicality of Guqin music.So it has formed its unique characteristic and been prominent in the schools of Guqin. The modern development of the Guangling School of Guqin is rough, its present age's survival condition is also similarly closely linked with its current cultural ecology. The study on the cultural ecology of the Guangling School of Guqin will be beneficial to the development of our current Guqin art and the protection of the intangible culture heritage.