Although Chinese music has a history of more than 3,000 years, in fact, from ancient times to the end of the Tang Dynasty, the direct sound materials (musical scores) were extremely poor. Generally, the history of ancient Chinese music can only be studied from some indirect materials (such as documents, musical instruments, sculptures, paintings, etc.). etc.) to start. Guqin music with a long h...

In ancient times, qin and chess, calligraphy, and painting, as the four arts of literati, were an indispensable part of the daily life of scholars, so the ancients had a saying that "a gentleman does not withdraw his qin and serenity for no reason". In the last century, the guqin, which was the first of the four arts, was on the verge of danger several times, but the situation seemed to be ruin...

The mountains and rivers resonate, and the lingering sound is thousands of years. The reporter learned from the Zhengzhou Grand Theater today that in order to launch the urban cultural brand of "Walking in Henan and Understanding China", the theater will launch the "Ancient Rhyme and Modern Sound" Folk Music Festival in April this year, with a strong lineup and rich content of Chinese music fea...

A question often asked by many Guqin lovers is: "Is Guqin easy to learn? Can I still learn it when I am old?" The answer is yes, and it is still very easy to get started with Guqin. Because in some remote places there are few masters of guqin, there is no teacher to teach, or because of their limited economic conditions, it is very inconvenient to learn from a teacher. Therefore, there are many...

Chinese folk music shines brightly in the international cultural and art field, and there are more and more Chinese folk music learners and communicators at home and abroad. With their love and persistence, they inherit and transmit the sound of folk music all over the world, making folk music Appreciated and known by more people. Sophie is a Chinese-French mixed-race girl. She started to...

"Jieshi Diao·Youlan" is the earliest extant guqin score in my country, and it is also the only qin music that has been preserved in the way of written notation. The original copy of this score is hidden in Japan. The late Qing scholar Yang Shoujing discovered the Baosutang copy of this score when he visited Japan from 1880 to 1884. It was later copied and engraved by Li Shuchang, t...

June 15, 2021, Shanghai Conservatory of Music. The four-bed guqin elaborately made by Mr. Fan Xiaoyang from Tianshui, Gansu Province and his disciple Yao Haifeng was brought to Mr. Dai Xiaolian, a famous Chinese guqin master, to be inspected and evaluated by top experts and artists in the guqin field, and was highly affirmed and praised. Mr. Dai Xiaolian, who was born in Sha...

The sound of the guqin is beautiful and beautiful, and it has the power to penetrate people's hearts. When I hear the sound of the guqin, I feel that the world is quiet, as if I have traveled back to ancient times. "Why do I often hear the sound of rubbing wood in the performance of the guqin?" In fact, it is not. It may be related to the recording of the guqin playing. In f...

The volume of the guqin is not large, but the guqin is mainly used by ancient literati to entertain themselves in the study or to enjoy and communicate with three or five friends. Obliterated but not heard, it is enough to be in harmony with people's spirits, and it is touching and kind." The sound of the guqin is just right, reflecting the beauty of "neutralization". Compared w...

2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Netherlands. One east and one west, two countries in different regions, but because of an ancient musical instrument, that is the Chinese guqin. In the 1930s and 1940s, the Dutch diplomat and sinologist Gao Luopei took away the "Longyin Pavilion Piano Score" from China, collected it in the L...