Compared with the pipa, the guzheng is easier to learn. For beginners, it is recommended to learn the guzheng.

Guzheng, also known as Hanzheng, Qinzheng, Yaozheng and Luanzheng, is one of the traditional instruments of the Han nationality and belongs to the plucked instrument. It is one of the unique and important national musical instruments in China. It has beautiful timbre, wide range, rich performance skills and strong expressiveness, so it is deeply loved by the masses. Now there are also small guzheng, portable guzheng, mini guzheng, half zheng, new zheng, and twelve equal-tempo zither. The guzheng is an ancient national musical instrument that was born and raised on this fertile loess land along with China's long-standing culture. It belongs to a plucked musical instrument, and its structure consists of a faceplate, a wild goose column (also called a zheng code in some areas), strings, a front mountain, a string pin, a tuning box, a piano foot, a back mountain, a side plate, a sound outlet, a bottom plate, a piercing String hole composition.

The shape of the zheng is a rectangular wooden speaker. The string frame "zheng column" (ie, wild goose column) can move freely. One string and one note are arranged according to the pentatonic scale. The earliest 25-string zheng is the most (the zither is the zheng), and the Tang and Song Dynasties. There are 13 strings at the time, and later increased to 16 strings, 18 strings, 21 strings, etc. At present, the most commonly used specification is 21 strings; usually, S163-21 is used in front of the model of guzheng, and S stands for S-shaped Yueshan. , was co-invented by Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin, 163 represents the length of the guzheng is about 163 cm, and 21 represents the number of 21 strings of the guzheng.

Pipa (English name "Lute"), known as "the king of plucked instruments" and "the first plucked instrument", is a plucked stringed musical instrument. Wooden, the speaker is half pear-shaped, and the top is equipped with four strings. It was originally made of silk thread, but now it is mostly made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon. The neck and the faceplate are used to determine the "phase" and "fresh" of the phoneme. It is an important national musical instrument that can be played solo, accompaniment, ensemble and ensemble. Pipa is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia with a history of more than 2,000 years. The earliest musical instrument known as "Pipa" appeared around the Qin Dynasty in China. The "jue" in the word "Pipa" means "two jades collide, making a pleasant sound", indicating that this is a musical instrument that sounds by hitting the strings. "Ratio" means "strings are equal." "Ba" means that the instrument is always attached to the player's body, which is different from the fact that the instrument does not touch the human body. Before the Tang Dynasty, pipa was also the general term for all lute (also known as Lute) plucked instruments in Chinese. The Chinese lute spread to other parts of East Asia and developed into the current Japanese lute, Korean lute and Vietnamese lute.

In the history of modern Han folk music in China, there are two major schools of pipa, the "Shanghai School" (Pudong School) and the "Zhe School" (Pinghu School). The Pipa art of the Pinghu School has considerable historical value for the study of the history of national music.

Whether it is Pipa or Guzheng, it is not easy to learn. It takes hard work to learn it well.

Many people are entangled in whether to learn Pipa or Guzheng. In the end, they choose Pipa because Guzheng is too expensive and too big, and there are more people who learn Guzheng than Pipa.