Guqin is one of the oldest traditional plucked instruments in China, with a history of more than 3,000 years. Making guqin, also known as "qin mojo", is a Chinese technique of fine workmanship for guqin. A good guqin needs the master to go through hundreds of procedures, which takes two or three years to complete. In Chengyang Street, there is a local artisan who specializes in making guqin. The guqin making skills of their family have been passed on for four generations and have a history of more than 100 years.
Sun Fuwan, the fourth generation inheritor of guqin making skills, told the reporter that his family, from his grandfather to his father, has been making guqin all the way to Sun Fuwan's generation. Sun Fuwan has been making this guqin for more than 40 years. He learned the process of making folk instruments from his father when he was young.
According to Sun Fuwan, there are 54 guqin styles handed down to us by the ancients, and currently we are making more than 50 guqin styles. There are Fuxi form, Zhongni form, conjoined beads form, banana leaf form, chaos form, sunset form and Phoenix form. Because the cavities inside each shape are different, and each board has a different density, it has a different timbre.
It usually takes more than two years to make each guqin. Guqin we from the production of material selection, to the end of the whole process, do each process to pay a lot of time and energy, to make a very excellent qin, as the master is also very happy, very happy.