China's distinct aesthetics are not only embodied in every aspect of Chinese life, but also increasingly bringing spiritual enjoyment to people of all cultural backgrounds in the form of artistic ...

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, a ...

Gao Chong and Wang Peng (right) perform at the National Centre for the Performing Arts on September 19, 2013. Photo: Courtesy of Juntian Fang Guqin becalms, says Wang Peng. The music plunges the ...

Advertisement: Ancient instrument to be revived on stage ( 2003-10-22 08:39) (China Daily) The ongoing sixth Beijing Music Festival will present a unique guqin improvisational concert tonight at ...

Sounding Body could have been just a piece of work with dancers, sensors fixed to them, to play an original guqin (a Chinese string instrument) score. Instead, the collaborators decided to push the ...

In 2021, Xu was taken on as a private student by Zhao Jiazhen, a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and a national-level inheritor of the guqin.

A Chinese music instrument Guqin is seen on display in the Museum of Gusli and Guqin in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 12, 2020. The Museum of Gusli and Guqin -- traditional Russian and Chinese music ...

Then again, the program that will be performed by the ensemble’s six instrumentalists and vocalists goes by the name of Lofty Mountains and Flowing Water Guqin Concert, so it appears that there ...

After all, the five notes of the traditional pentatonic scale flow in my blood," she says. ... I've been able to draw people into guqin music, and some have even started learning to play.

Musical archaeologists urged greater efforts yesterday to ensure that the ancient art of the guqin is preserved for future generations. The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is China's oldest ...

The Chinese zither, called guqin, has existed for over 3,000 years and represents China’s foremost solo musical instrument tradition. Described in early literary sources and corroborated by ...