The guqin, with its nearly 3,000-year history, does more than produce music. It is woven into the very fabric of Chinese ...

Legendary instrument. ... From its birth some 2,500 years ago, the guzheng, a 21-stringed zither, has always been an popular entertaining instrument. Many Chinese confuse guqin and guzheng, ...

Guqin : a plucked seven-string instrument created in ancient China (China Daily) Wandering sounds, irregular rhythms and a carrier of gentle emotions. This is the musical language of guqin ...

“The guqin is an instrument that you should play not only with your fingers, but also with your soul. When I play it, I feel I’m having heart-to-heart communication with the instrument.

The guqin, a 7 string Chinese zither with a 3,000 year-old tradition, is struggling to find popularity. BBC Homepage. ... Ancient instrument guqin struggles to find new enthusiasts Close.

The guqin instrument and its music are featured on the €1,00 and € 1,90 souvenir sheet. The Chinese zither, called guqin, has existed for over 3,000 years and represents China’s foremost ...

But I never touched the instrument until the late 1990s when a friend told me that she knew Yu Qingxin, a professional guqin player with the China National Orchestra. Since then, I have learned ...

These days the Communist Party is hoping the guqin and other traditional instruments will also bring it joy, by promoting Chinese civilisation and the party’s self-styled embodiment of it.

In ancient times, silk was used for the strings of bowed or plucked instruments such as the guqin, erhu, sanxian and pipa. The Sounds of China: A beginner’s guide to Chinese musical instruments ...