A long time ago, at the foot of the golden Alatengola Mountain, there was a silver moon lake. There lived a hardworking, brave, simple and kind little herder by the lake. His name is Su He. He and his mother live a poor life.
One day, Xiao Suhe came out to eat grass and had a strange dream on the hillside-he saw a beautiful girl falling from the sky and said to him, "I know you want a lovely horse." I'm telling you, there is a white horse by the north lake, kind man. Go and take it home! " Then I saw a white light and the girl disappeared without a trace.
Sue woke up with a "ah" and rubbed her eyes. The sun is shining. Remembering what he had just heard in his dream, he stood up and looked north. Sure enough, a little white horse stood by the lake, and Su He ran to it happily.
From then on, Su He had an inseparable partner. Su He tamed the little white horse by careful feeding and taught it to walk and run. Soon, the little white horse grew into a well-developed strong horse, with four hooves like the wind and running.
One day, while grazing by the lake, Su He accidentally stepped on a spring in the swamp and sank deeper and deeper. The white horse saw it, hissed and ran to the master, grabbed the master's sleeve and dragged it out. Su He was rescued by the neck of the white horse. One night, a wild wolf rushed into the sheepfold. Su He quickly swung a stick at the wolf, and the wolf ran at Su He with bared teeth.
At this time, the white horse broke free from the reins with a long hiss, raised its front hoof and grabbed at the wolf, only to hear "ouch", and the head of the evil wolf blossomed. Su He was grateful and ran to hold the white horse's head lovingly, not knowing what to say.
One day, Su He was grazing in the wild, and several knights came from far away, panting and said, "Little brother, can you help us?" The prince ordered us to capture a sika deer alive. If you can't catch it, you will be punished if you go back! "
Sue and heard about their situation. Without saying anything, they got on the white horse and headed for the mountains. It didn't take long to catch up with sika deer and trap it with a horse pole.
Su He handed the sika deer to the soldiers and said, "Soldiers, according to your request, I caught the sika deer for you. But I have a request. When you go back, don't say that I am chasing this deer on a white horse! " However, the news that "there are white horses on the grassland that can catch up with birds and beasts" still spreads like wildfire. Hearing this, Wang Ye drooled and showed a greedy smile.
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The origin of Ma Touqin's story;
From the period of mountain hunting culture to the early period of grassland nomadic culture, the musical instruments used by Mongolians were not Ma Touqin, but plucked instruments such as Hobbes and Tubshur, which were mostly used for entertainment and song and dance.
According to the records in the Secret History of Mongolia and the History of the Yuan Dynasty, from Genghis Khan to Kublai Khan, the Mongolian national musical instruments were mainly plucked instruments, and the Mongolian soldiers and civilians in the Yuan Dynasty were good at playing with fire and thinking, and liked to dance and step on songs collectively. With the rapid development of grassland nomadic music, Ma Touqin, a stringed instrument, was born and widely popularized, and eventually replaced plucked string as the most grassland-featured folk musical instrument in Mongolia.
Obviously, when stringed instruments replace plucked instruments, the fire will gradually subside, and Ma Touqin will naturally become the protagonist of Mongolian musical instruments. Ma Touqin, an ancient stringed instrument, is named after its head is carved with a horse's head. Therefore, Ma Touqin originally had a dragon head. This is recorded in the volume of the History of Yuan Dynasty: "Huqin is made of fire, and its neck is rolled. The second string of the dragon head is pressed with a bow, and the bow string is a ponytail.
According to rock paintings and some historical materials, the ancient Mongols began to process yogurt spoons, wrapped them in cowhide, and pulled two ponytail strings as musical instruments, which were called "spoon-shaped huqin". At present, many experts believe that this is the predecessor of Ma Touqin. At that time, the longest spoon-shaped huqin was about two feet, and the speaker was smaller, so the sound was much smaller.
Up to now, some people in western Mongolia still call Ma Touqin "spoon-shaped huqin". At that time, the piano head was not necessarily a horse's head, but a human head, skull, crocodile head, turtle shell or faucet. In addition, it is said that the head of this kind of piano is in the shape of a monkey head or a martel head. Martel is shaped like a dragon and a monkey, symbolizing a sacred object that suppresses evil spirits.
According to relevant scholars' research, Ma Touqin was born at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, and the head of the piano was changed from a dragon head or a martel head to a horse head. In addition, there are many kinds of pianos, such as Pihu, Shovel Hu, Xiqin and Xiqin, which were all popular instruments at that time.
In the Yuan Dynasty, with the gradual prosperity of court life, there were specialized performers and dancers in the court, and Ma Touqin gradually became one of the main contents of court music.