Guqin, also known as Yaoqin, Yuqin and Seven-stringed Qin, is a traditional Chinese plucked stringed instrument with a history of more than 3,000 years. As one of the intangible inheritors of Xichang Guqin, Sun Shilin has been hoping to combine what she has learned in recent years to promote Xichang Guqin on a broader stage of dissemination.

By chance, Sun Shilin and his friends went on vacation, and a moving piano sounded in his ears, sometimes distant and sometimes long, revealing ancient thoughts, and it seemed to encompass all moods, immersed in it, the heart is quiet, in the sound of the piano. Wandering around, this state of ease, ignited her love for the guqin, and it has been out of control since then.

Learning guqin is not a passion, but a determination made after thinking over and over again. The reason is love. The longer the contact time, the more I feel the sea of stars and stars behind the guqin. In addition to learning the piano, Sun Shilin is more about observing, thinking and speculating, and practicing over and over again.

Sun Shilin told reporters that the birth of a guqin requires more than 100 processes, including material selection, sawing, drying, scribing, grinding, assembly, tuning, scraping, and painting. Among them, the most difficult part is tuning. Guqin has 7 strings. It is very important to find the balance between timbre and volume. This depends on continuous practice to accumulate experience.

After talking about the guqin, I have to mention the piano score. Its "magic" is that it is divided into written notation and reduced character notation. It is neither a Western staff notation nor a simple notation in the general sense. It looks like prose. poetry.

"This is the minus-character score of the guqin. It is recorded in words. The words above represent the left fingering method, and the lower part represents the right fingering method. It continues to this day." Sun Shilin said.

Today, under the influence of Guqin art, more traditional Chinese culture has entered Sun Shilin's life. Playing the qin, tea ceremony, incense ceremony, and porcelain have become her daily life. In her opinion, life, like Guqin, is rhythmic and rhythmic. Rhythmic, life also needs more exquisite and elegant to dress up. After studying art for more than ten years, Sun Shilin deeply understands the importance of this inheritance. In order to better inherit the guqin culture, she and her friends founded a guqin studio in 2018, hoping to teach this skill to more people.