Doctor Zhao, help!

Chapter 377 The debate between elegance and vulgarity

After eating the overly sumptuous staff meal, Teacher Tang suddenly sighed and said, "It's hard to do anything now. A classmate of mine who studies musical instruments sells pianos at home. He said that pianos can maintain 30% of the sales volume of previous years. It’s already very good.”

"And now there are fewer and fewer children learning piano, while more and more are learning vocal music."

"It's normal. In the long run, learning vocal music is more useful than learning piano. In fact, piano is a thing with a very small input-output ratio. If you learn vocal music, even if you can't become a singer, but when you grow up, Howling at a KTV, or performing a show while studying, isn't it also very advantageous?"

Zhao Sheng smiled and said.

“In the current environment, all the things that enjoyed extremely high premiums in the past but are actually of low value will be destroyed one by one in the next few years.”

"Diamonds, watches, high-end Japanese materials, high-end liquor, sky-high collections of tea, as well as antiques and stamps that no young people can take over. These are all bubbles that will burst in the future."

After a pause, Zhao Sheng sighed again.

"Practice piano, for ordinary children, before the senior grade of elementary school, it is good to practice to cultivate their sentiments and develop their musical literacy. Nowadays, many children just practice the music for grade examination repeatedly, and the children themselves are very good. When I get bored, I will give up completely as soon as I get the certificate or as soon as the pressure of study increases.”

"Piano is something that you really need to practice to a professional level to make a living. In terms of talent, it must be one in a thousand or even one in a thousand."

Master Ai Ling also said.

As the dean of the Vocal Music Department of Zhongdu Conservatory of Music, Ai Ling obviously has a strong say in artistic training.

"From a practical point of view, it is better to learn suona. With the aging population in the future, the employment rate of suona will definitely be higher than that of piano."

“And for the atmosphere of a live performance, no instrument can compare to the suona.”

Out of the blue, Zhao Sheng said this.

"Haha~"

When Teacher Tang heard this, he immediately laughed.

Ai Ling also smiled.

"In other martial arts novels, the handsome young masters all play the jade flute or the guqin. They are full of fairy spirit. Who can play the suona?"

Teacher Tang said teasingly with a smile.

"Moreover, if you learn piano and violin, you can also practice at home. If your children practice suona at home late at night, even if the neighbors don't do it first, they will think that they will have to eat somewhere."

After a pause, Teacher Tang said again.

"If piano accompaniment was used when doing business and eating, I'm afraid there wouldn't be so many parents trying their best to let their children learn piano in order to become elegant."

Zhao Sheng said.

"The debate between elegance and vulgarity is actually more obvious in the vocal music world."

"Real music must serve the public. As long as more people listen to it and it can be popular among the public, it is actually good."

"For example, recently there have been many pop songs that incorporate operatic singing. In fact, these singing methods are not operatic at all, but pop singing with pinched throats. The real operatic style must be honed by opera artists over ten years of hard work. , coupled with ten years of hard work on stage.”

“But these songs also promote opera and allow more people to understand opera through this form, and that’s enough.”

Ai Ling said.

From the debate between elegance and vulgarity in musical instruments, Ai Ling thought of the same debate in the vocal music world.

"Controversies exist everywhere. The debate between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine has always existed and will never go away."

Zhao Sheng also said. "Then do you support Chinese medicine or Western medicine?"

After hearing what Zhao Sheng said, Teacher Tang asked curiously.

"Do you know how artemisinin was discovered?"

Zhao Sheng did not answer the original question, but asked instead.

"It was discovered by Academician Tu Youyou."

Teacher Tang replied.

"Academician Tu has studied many traditional Chinese medicine anti-malarial prescriptions and found that most of these prescriptions contain a single medicine, which is Artemisia annua."

"That's why we started with Artemisia annua and used modern chemical methods to finally extract artemisinin."

"Do you think this is Chinese medicine or Western medicine?"

Zhao Sheng said slowly.

In Zhao Sheng's view, the debate between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine does not exist at all.

He is a pragmatist and uses whatever works.

If one day, modern scientific instruments can detect the meridian system and directly observe people's Qi, then he will happily learn the latest technology and knowledge.

“In my opinion, traditional Chinese medicine is just my country’s traditional medicine, nothing more. In ancient times, various regions and countries around the world had their own traditional medicine, with different theoretical guidance, diagnosis and treatment possibilities for the same disease. It will be completely different.”

"In fact, in most countries, traditional medicine has been completely replaced by modern medicine. The fact that our traditional Chinese medicine can still be passed down after the emergence of modern medicine has proved the excellence of traditional Chinese medicine."

Zhao Sheng said very objectively.

"And there is a very interesting phenomenon. All traditional technologies, especially those in our country, are not as good as they were in the past, apprentices are not as good as teachers, and each generation is not as good as the last."

"For example, everyone has the impression that martial arts masters in ancient times were more powerful than today, and miracle doctors in the past were also more powerful than traditional Chinese medicine today."

"But no one would think that the sprint world champion 100 years ago was faster than today, nor would anyone think that the level of surgery a hundred years ago was better than today."

After a pause, Zhao Sheng said again.

"Isn't it said that many secret recipes have been lost, because they are passed down from male to female, leaving one hand for the apprentices and so on."

Teacher Tang said curiously.

"Passing down the inheritance from male to female, leaving one hand to the apprentice, is the patent protection in ancient times. In ancient times, knowing a craft and knowing a secret recipe can last for several generations. Such an important thing must not be handed over to others casually. "

"In modern times, traditional Chinese medicine should actually be better integrated with modern medicine. For example, Academician Tu Youyou has a traditional Chinese medicine prescription of Artemisia annua. The anti-malarial effect may only be 40 to 50%, but Academician Tu used the active ingredient Qinghao When artemisia is extracted, it can exert 100% medicinal effect. Even the ancients who developed these prescriptions should be happy when they see it."

Zhao Sheng explained it seriously.

"That's right, Ah Sheng's thinking is truly pragmatic."

Master Ai Ling also agreed very much with what Zhao Sheng said. These words were exactly the same as what Yu Zhongbo said, so she was truly worthy of being a teacher and student.

As the saying goes, if you are not a family, you will not enter the same family. It is because Zhao Sheng and Yu Zhongbo have highly consistent three views that they can become teachers and students.

(End of this chapter)