May 18, 2022 is the 46th International Museum Day, and the Chongqing Intangible Cultural Heritage "Shopping Festival" officially kicked off.

The eighth batch of representative projects of intangible cultural heritage in Jiangbei District, Chongqing: Mei School Guqin Performance Art, officially announced by the People's Government of Jiangbei District, Chongqing on September 8, 2021, and officially awarded on May 18, 2022.

Guqin is a traditional Chinese plucked stringed instrument with a history of more than 3,000 years. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, a new school of qin emerged in the Jiangnan area - the Guangling qin school. With its beautiful and delicate, ups and downs and changes, the combination of rigidity and softness, and the melodious performance characteristics, the Guangling Qin School has been loved by many people, and has gradually developed into a large-scale piano school with orderly inheritance and famous masters.

Today's "Mei School Guqin" in Jiangbei District of Chongqing City was founded by Mr. Mei Yueqiang, the eleventh-generation master of the Guangling Qin School and the tenth-generation descendant of the Jinling Qin School. Mr. Mei Yueqiang devoted his life to the inheritance and development of the guqin, and he personally learned the guqin skills of the Jinling, Zhejiang and Sichuan styles while learning the true heritage of the Guangling school.

In 2018, Zhang Li and Tang Qian from Chongqing officially took the eldest son of Mr. Mei Yueqiang, the eldest son of Mr. Mei Yueqiang, the 11th-generation master of the Guangling School and the 10th-generation descendant of the Jinling School, as their teacher, and learned the technique of playing the guqin of the Mei School. Afterwards, the two began to declare the intangible cultural heritage of the "Mei School Guqin Performance Art".

Finally, with the help and support of Chongqing Jiangbei District Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, "Mei School Guqin Performance Art" was awarded as the eighth batch of intangible cultural heritage representative projects by the Jiangbei District People's Government of Chongqing in 2021.