From 37 BC to 668 AD, in the southern part of the northeastern region of my country, there was an ancient northeastern country, Goguryeo, founded by the Fuyu people. At that time, it was from the end of the Western Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Tang Dynasty in China. The Xuanqin was a plucked stringed musical instrument played by the Goguryeo people of the ancient northeastern minority in China. The Xuanqin originated from the lying Konghou. It can be seen that Xuanqin has a long history.

In Du You's "Tong Dian" (Volume 146) of the Tang Dynasty, in the "Sifang Music" section of Gaoli music, the Lying Konghou (also Zhang Wuxian at that time) was written. In this sense, the banjo is the earliest Goguryeo-specific instrument, the Xuanqin, which was first found in historical records.

It is recorded in the "Silla Ancient Records" that the Jin people gave Goguryeo the lyre. Although the Li people knew it as a musical instrument, they did not know its sound and the method of drums. Those who bought the lyre and drums were highly rewarded. At that time, the second prime minister, Wang Shanyue, preserved his wood pattern, and made it by changing the method of making it. He also made more than one hundred pieces to play it, so Xuanhe (Black Crane) came to dance, so it was named Xuanheqin, and later Yunxuanqin . "The name Xuanqin is mentioned in the text because the Xuanhe came to dance, which is probably due to legend, and the Xuanqin is a reformation of the qin, which may be a misunderstanding of the name, or it may be that at the time of Goguryeo, the existence of the lying Konghou was not known. , so it appears that the Xuanqin originated from the lyre.

In 1932, in Xigang, Ji'an County, Jilin Province, my country, the Goguryeo tombs from the 3rd to the 5th century AD were first discovered, and the images of Xuanqin were painted in the murals of dancing and music.

In 1944, in the northwestern suburbs of Liaoyang City, Liaoning Province, another ancient tomb of Anyue in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was discovered, and the Xuanqin was also painted on the frescoes of the No. 3 Murong Tomb (AD 357).