Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia is a famous Chinese guqin song, and it is one of the top ten famous songs in ancient China.

There was chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, and it was a bonfire year after year. Cai Wenji was captured by Huns during his escape and lived in the Great Wall. Later, he married Zuo and gave birth to two children. She spent twelve spring and autumn years outside the Great Wall, but she missed her hometown all the time.

Cao Cao pacified the Central Plains, made peace with the Xiongnu, and sent messengers to redeem Moon Hee with a large sum of money, so she wrote the famous long poem "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia", describing the unfortunate experiences in her life. Qin Ge has editions such as Big Hu Jia, Little Hu Jia and Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia.

Although the tunes are different, they all reflect the extremely contradictory and painful feelings that Cai Wenji missed his hometown and could not bear to be separated. Music euphemistically mourns and tears the liver and intestines.

Eighteen beats of the Hu family is a lyric poem in ancient Yuefu, with one beat and 18 chapters as * * *, hence the name, which embodies the theme of "Happy Moon Returning to Han".

During the war at the end of Han Dynasty, Cai Wenji lived in South Xiongnu for twelve years. As Zuo's wife, she misses her hometown very much. When Cao Cao sent someone to take her back to the mainland, she had to leave two children behind. The joy of going home was overwhelmed by the pain of separation of flesh and blood, and my mood was very contradictory, so I wrote "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia"

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The influence of eighteen beats of Hu Jia on later generations

After the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, all the Han people in China became conquered. Wang Yuanliang, a poet who died in the Southern Song Dynasty, played eighteen beats of Hu Jia for Wen Tianxiang in prison to express the "endless sorrow" of broken mountains and rivers. During this period, "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia" spread rapidly among ministers and people in the Southern Song Dynasty.

According to the Complete Works of Qin, this song caused an unprecedented noise. Some people say, "I am sad and angry, thinking about resentment, and how much I feel, I will send" Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia. " Moreover, there are some poems that feel homesick, such as "beating the syllables in Hu Jia, Yanshan lonely stone iron" and "Cai Yansi wants to fly, playing the piano is too sad".

Eighteen beats of Hu Jia is just a piano piece. Although it expresses feelings of sadness and resentment, it is also a kind of "noble resentment". After the death of the Song Dynasty, perhaps it was this kind of widely circulated music full of "great sorrow" and "aristocratic resentment" that made the "heart stone iron" stick to the end, thus making the blood of race and culture endless.

After more than 80 years, when the anti-Yuan troops marched across the country, race and culture finally got a new life.