Once the road of learning the qin begins, I do not want to stop, and I hope to make progress every day. But paradoxically, the guqin is a musical instrument, but not just a musical instrument. In addition to paying attention to the musical technique and fingering necessary to play an instrument, it also pays attention to a person's experience, state of mind and self-cultivation. Therefore...

When learning Guqin, I always think that practicing more techniques is enough, but it is not necessarily true. Although Guqin techniques require diligent practice, they also require more thought. When the guqin is learned to a certain level, thinking is more important than practice. Practice the song, think the god. Composer, playing skills; God, verve. It's easy to get it, but it's hard to get...

Every Wednesday and Friday afternoon, during the extended class, the guqin room of Zhengzhou Baihua Art Primary School heard the sounds of children learning guqin. Although it was only a simple seven scattered sounds, it made the children feel deeply. I fell in love with the oldest stringed instrument in China, and became the inheritor and disseminator of this ancient instrument. ...

An unbroken string made of silk is not only an extreme metaphor for the difficulty in inheriting the current Guqin culture, but also reveals the public but little-known truth that the traditional Guqin silk-string culture is dying. No silk can make a piano, now silk strings are hard to find Guqin has always been recognized as the master of Chinese traditional culture for t...

Guqin has a very long history. Many Guqins made by the ancients have become artistic treasures collected by literati of all dynasties because of their beautiful appearance and beautiful sound. So, how is the handed down guqin made? There are a lot of discussions on the production of the guqin in the related guqin documents of the past dynasties. In general, to make a co...

Guqin was renamed in the 1820s to distinguish it from Western musical instruments. Guqin belongs to plucked instruments and has a history of more than 3,000 years. It is the essence of Chinese ancient music culture. Since ancient times, "qin" has been specially referred to. According to the "Wuzhizhai Qinpu", there are 51 styles handed down in ancient times, but only more than 20 are commonly u...

Lu Yuping founded the first zither production enterprise in Yangzhou, and is also a legend in the field of guqin in Yangzhou. He has played an irreplaceable role in the development of guqin in Yangzhou and even in China. Lu Yuping is not only an entrepreneur, activist, but also a maker of Guqin. As an entrepreneur, his pioneering spirit is admirable. He founded the fir...

The relationship between Guqin and me began with the elegant collection of the Wuxu Winter Solstice, and the pursuit of it can be traced back to two special reading experiences nearly ten years ago. It is quite interesting to think about it. Both books were written by Westerners, and the original audience was not Chinese. It is only because the traditional scholar class mostly takes playing the...

Wang Wei's "Bamboo Pavilion": Sitting alone in a secluded room, playing the qin and roaring. People in the deep forest don't know, the bright moon will come to take pictures. Wang Wei's "Remuneration to Zhang Shaofu": In my later years, I just want to be quiet, and I don't care about everything. There is no long-term strategy for oneself, and empty knowledge returns to the old f...

1. What is Guqin? The oldest plucked instrument in China is the qin referred to by the four arts of "qin, chess, calligraphy and painting". During the Qin and Han Dynasties, when the guqin was at its peak, everyone in the "fishing and woodworking" people learned the qin, and the guqin was the most popular. 2. Why is Guqin a compulsory course for literati of all dynasties? ...