During the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, due to the development of zheng skills and zheng art, people's names for zheng became more and more complicated. Among the more than 100 zheng chanting poems in "Complete Tang Poems", there are as many as 20 titles of zheng. From this, we can also see the continuous improvement and improvement of the manufacturing process of zheng and the variety of zhen...

Today, the zheng is popular in professional performances and folk, and it is a popular musical instrument among the masses. But playing the zither with fake armor is not a modern invention. As early as the Southern and Northern Dynasties (502 BC), the Liang Dynasty "Liang Shu Yang Kan Biography" contains: "There is a zheng player Lu Daxi, with antler claws, seven inches long." In Li Shangyin's ...

There is a legend in ancient times: The Yellow Emperor ordered Su Nu to play a fifty-stringed serpent. After listening to it, she was saddened, so she broke the serpent, and there are only twenty-five strings left. In Qin, there were two brothers arguing with each other, and the result was broken into two, and the name of the zheng was obtained from this. Many people now believe that the ...

Guzheng is one of the oldest plucked instruments in my country. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it was prevalent in Shaanxi and Gansu. In 237 BC, when Li Si wrote to Qin Shihuang, he described the vivid scenes of folk zheng songs: "The husband strikes the urn and knocks the fou, and the zheng beats the head and sings. Woohoo, quick ears and eyes, the true...

As early as the Warring States Period from the 5th century BC to the 3rd century BC, the guzheng was widely circulated in the Qin state (now Shaanxi). The origin of the guzheng is still inconclusive. Due to historical changes and regional influences, local styles and playing techniques have been different, and thus various different guzheng schools have been formed today, making the development...

There are five ancient guzheng songs: "High Mountains and Flowing Water", "Guangling San", "Pingsha Falling Wild Goose", "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms", and "Eighteen Beats of Hu Jia". It is mainly composed of panel, bottom plate, zither edge, zither head, Yueshan, yards, piano nails, sound holes and strings. "High Mountains and Flowing Water" comes from the Jin State during the Spring and...