In 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Suzhou Pingtan was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Changshu is known as "the first book dock in the south of the Yangtze River". Once, there was an old saying in the Pingtan circle: storytellers walking on the dock in Changshu can stay for three consecutive years. This remark not only shows the lar...

Near Ganjia Lane on the north side of Xitang Street, Pingwang Town, Suzhou, there is a teahouse and bookstore called Wenyuan. The teahouse and bookstore refers to the establishment of a bookstore in the teahouse, and the teahouse and the bookstore are two in one. A small alley running east-west is formed between the bookstore and the house to the north. The ground is covered wit...

In Australia's Sydney Conservatory of Music, you can see students from different cultural backgrounds playing Chinese instruments. Their teacher is a Chinese, Liu Lu.In Australia's Sydney Conservatory of Music, you can see students from different cultural backgrounds playing Chinese instruments. Their teacher is a Chinese, Liu Lu. She brought Chinese musical instruments such...

As a classical musical instrument, the pipa was introduced to my country from the Western Regions as early as the Qin Dynasty. The ancients often used poems to express feelings and songs to sing about things. Therefore, there have been many poems and songs about the pipa since ancient times. To express a certain emotional sustenance of the creator. Regarding the pipa, the most f...

Guqin is a man Guzheng is a woman Pipa is a little woman The guzheng is delicate and melodious in tone. It is an atmospheric work like "General's Order" and "Battle Typhoon", but what is more outstanding is some gentleness. The slower rhythm works such as "The Fragrance of Jasmine" and "The Fishing Boat Sings Evening" have a beautiful timbre of the guzheng itself and are suitable for slow...

Chimes and chimes in pre-Qin ritual music Guqin and Ruan Xian in the Yaji Collection of Wei and Jin Dynasties Pipa and Shakuhachi in the Tang court Sanxian and Erhu in Ming and Qing Markets ... Through the ages Countless musical instruments record civilization with sound Behind the National Music It is the accumulation of thousands of years of Chi...

On April 3rd, in Minnesota, USA, pipa player and artistic director of Carleton College Chinese Orchestra Gao Hong will lead students to hold a special concert where Chinese pipa and world music collide. This concert carries the dual significance of commemorating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pipa master Lin Shicheng and Gao Hong's 50 years in the art. Gao Hong deliberately chose t...

On the evening of April 8, "Listening to Guangdong-Yang Weijie, Sha Jingshan and the Guangdong National Orchestra Concert" will be conducted by conductor Wang Fujian and will perform at the Xinghai Concert Hall. Both Yang Weijie and Sha Jingshan are people who love music and performances. In recent years, the two have been involved in composition, and regard composition as a deep interaction wi...

Recently, Gao Hong, a pipa performer, educator, composer, and artistic director of the Carleton College Chinese Orchestra, is leading the students to intensively rehearse for a very important concert. These students who have no previous foundation in Chinese folk music have not only gained valuable opportunities to learn and perform Chinese music at Carleton College, but also can obtain a bache...

Pipa and Liuqin are different in phoneme, volume, range and playing style. Different phonemes: The phoneme of the pipa is composed of the fret and the phase, while the phoneme of the liuqin is composed of only the fret; Different volumes: Pipa is relatively large, Liuqin is relatively small; Different sound areas: Pipa has a high-pitched area as well as a mid-range and low-pit...