Butterfly-style zheng (pinyin: dié shì zhēng) In November 1980, the butterfly-style zheng designed by He Baoquan passed the "Technical Appraisal" of the Science and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of Culture of China, and won the "Second Prize for Cultural and Scientific Achievements of the People's Republic of China" in 1980. The achievement of the butterfly-style zheng lies in that its string arrangement breaks through the pentatonic scale, reaches the 7-tone scale, is easy to transpose, can play twelve equal temperaments, greatly expands the playing range, and can be integrated into the orchestra to play the concerto function.


Butterfly kite is the product of trial and improvement. It splices the heads of the two zithers together, symmetrical to the left and right, and the outer shape is like a butterfly, hence the name. Added semitones or inflections between certain string spacings in the pentatonic tuning. String hooks are also fitted to change the pitch of certain tunings.