Guqin, the earliest stringed instrument in China, is regarded by literati as a representative of elegance. It has been rooted in the long history of China with its vigorous vitality for thousands of years. In 2003, the Chinese guqin was selected as a world intangible cultural heritage. As an excellent traditional culture in China, it is an inevitable choice to attach importance to and carry forward the guqin in line with the trend of the times. With the country's emphasis on and popularization of traditional culture, guqin education has been quite effective and has gradually returned to the public's field of vision in recent years. Qingdao is the birthplace of the Laoshan School of Guqin and has a long history of Guqin culture. Its inheritance and dissemination will help the development and progress of Guqin.

The first "Zixia Cup" Qingdao Guqin Art Festival is hosted by Zixia Qinyuan and Qingdao Branch, co-organized by Qingdao Yiqiao Music and Art Center, Shandong Tianzhiyin Culture Media Co., Ltd., etc., from July 20 to July 24, 2022 It is grandly held, in order to show the positive enthusiasm of guqin learning to the whole country, to spread the charming traditional guqin culture, and to carry forward the endless guqin inheritance spirit.

As the highlight of the festival, "Qin recalls the past and the present" - Zhao Xiaoxia's Guqin Solo Concert will be held on July 23, 2022 at the Qingdao Iceberg International Concert Hall. Guqin artist Zhao Xiaoxia will bring the Zixia Qin Academy Qingdao Branch Dean Liang Yan, percussionist Cao Kaizhong, flute and flute player Liu Jia, clarinet player Yue Han and other artists performed enthusiastically.

As a bridge connecting tradition and modernity, this concert integrates modern multimedia visual art with traditional guqin art, breaks people's inherent cognition and impression of guqin, and enables the audience to gain a meditative experience, unify their body and mind, and enjoy art. infiltration. The concert will lead the audience to examine their hearts, share emotions, experience the length and thickness of Guqin history in the same time and space, and describe the profound connotation of Guqin music. Where the sound begins, it is born from the heart. This concert reflects the intertwining of emotions, the fusion of Chinese and Western, the interlacing of ancient and modern, and the diversity of Guqin art. In the concert, the performer Zhao Xiaoxia will have a dialogue, feelings and imagination with the qin players who play on the same stage and the audience listening to the audience, and jointly inherit the guqin culture.

Guqin artist Zhao Xiaoxia has held solo concerts in many places around the world, and has cooperated with many well-known musicians at home and abroad to innovate, bringing rich and wonderful Guqin artistic enjoyment to the audience. Played the guqin in major performances such as the APEC Summit, the UNESCO Award Ceremony, the G20 Beijing Summit, and the Qingdao SCO Summit. She constantly explores the inner connection between guqin, aesthetics and philosophy, and brings guqin in the modern art form to more people.

The "Zixia Cup" Art Festival also mainly includes open classes by famous teachers, Zixia Cup performances, visits to the Chuqin Square, etc. It is intended to provide a professional and authoritative learning and exchange platform for piano friends, highlighting the professionalism, artistry and fun of Guqin , to improve the comprehensive ability of the guqin. In addition, this art festival will bring people a brand-new cultural influence and artistic enjoyment, practically walk into the guqin, experience the guqin, and perceive the guqin. While actively promoting the guqin culture and cultural undertakings in Qingdao, it will further enhance the dissemination of Chinese guqin culture. power and influence, calling on more people to pay attention to, inherit and carry forward the traditional Chinese guqin culture