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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Can you imagine playing an instrument that has 2,000 years of history behind it?
Would you honor the tradition by playing music of old or look to add to its history with new music?
Maybe both? This question is one that Chinese zither player, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Yi Jia Tu often asks.
In this beautiful talk and performance, she shares what led her to this incredible instrument. and how for her, blending traditional and modern music bridges past and present and the differences among us.
So this is a guzheng, an ancient Chinese zither that has over 2,000 years of history.
But growing up in China, I played the two most popular instruments.
Can you guess what they are? It's the guitar and the piano, yeah.
Not this. So I wrote a song on the guitar that ended up on one of the biggest music shows of the time, called 中国好歌曲 . and at 16, my life changed overnight.
I entered this parallel universe as the Hannah Montana version of myself, as a high school kid.
I saw my face on news headlines, I heard my music played in public, which was a weird experience.
And I was working with music legends I grew up admiring who helped my debut album won the prestigious Hua Yubang Zhongbang, also known as Stitcher. the Chinese Music Awards.
However, as a Chinese musician, my music was very westernized.
I didn't sound Chinese, and in a way, I'm not sure if I really wanted to.
You see, with traditional music, I didn't really think it was cool.
I have to admit in my language there's this word for something that's not cool or backwards called 土 . but 土 literally means the earth or soil that we stand on.
On the other hand, you have this word called yangqi, which means the opposite, something very trendy and cool and avant-garde, but Yangtze literally means Western.
And over time, I realized that this isn't just a Chinese issue, but a global one.
Music traditions are dying in the hands of our generation.
But how can we preserve a tradition if we don't feel a personal connection to it?
So I felt inspired to learn the traditional instruments and folk music to reconnect with my roots.
But instead of playing traditional music traditionally, it's important for me to be creative with it.
So I'm going to show you how I do that. I'm going to play you a song that's a combination of a traditional folk song. as well as my own composition.
I think you can guess which part is the traditional, which one's not.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Amen. Thank you. Is anyone Oh... for too long to spread that we I should have said no Yeah.
Thank you for watching. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. So there's this quote attributed to the composer Gustav Machler that I really like. that tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
And music can transcend not just the barriers of language and culture, but also time and space.
For me, music can build a bridge between the East and the West, the past and the present and between you and me. and I've witnessed how music can reach beyond the limits of not just our human memory, but even our very own consciousness.
When my grandmother developed Alzheimer's, we could no longer communicate through words, However, there was this lullaby that she used to sing to me when I was a child.
It's a lullaby that her mother I used to sing to her, so it's been passed down my family for over four generations.
And whenever I sing the melody, she will recognize the melody and sing along with me. which is really sweet.
And even though my grandmother has recently passed away, Whenever I sing this lullaby, I still feel deeply connected with her.
It's almost like She's still singing along with me, perhaps somewhere in a space that only exists through music.
Thank you. 我的小宝宝 The baby is going to sleep I want my precious water.
Hey, John. Thank you. Amen. Yaoyao wo di bao bei shui Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. How he is now. 我的小宝宝
I don't know. Yau yau wo di bao bei shui Take care.
Thank you. That was Ijia Tu speaking at TED 2025.
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And that's it for today's show. TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
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It was mixed by Christopher Fasey Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu. I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
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