Shawzin, a plucked stringed musical instrument of the Jing people. That is, the Sanxian of the Jing nationality. Unique in shape and rich in tone, it is often used for solo and folk song accompaniment, and is deeply loved by the Jing people.

The structure is composed of a resonance box, a headstock, a piano rod, a peg, a bridge and a string, and the total length of the piano body is 118 cm.

sound box
Flat, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, it is a trapezoidal box-shaped hollow body. The form is exactly the same as the resonance box of the Mongolian stringed musical instrument Matouqin. Although they are spread in the north and south of my country and each side of the sky, it is rare in our country that the piano box is so consistent. . The piano case is 32 cm long, 26 cm wide, 30 cm wide, and 9 cm thick. The frame board on the side of the piano case is made of four hard wood plates of different lengths such as mahogany and rosewood. In the center of the upper and lower frame plates, there is a square hole for inserting the piano rod. The two sides of the frame board are covered with a surface and a bottom plate made of multiple pieces of paulownia, pine or fir and other softer thin boards.

headstock, stem
It is made of a piece of hard wood, the top is the head and the bottom is the stem, which are connected as one, and the size is the same as the full length of the piano body. The headstock is 16 cm long, the upper part is flat, and the widest part is 12 cm. The front outline is in the shape of a ruyi, with patterns painted on it, the lower part is square column-shaped, there is a rectangular through-bottom string groove in the middle, and there are three strings on both sides. Axis (two left and one right).

peg
Hardwood, conical in shape, shaft 13 cm long, with straight petals engraved on the surface of the shaft. The piano bar is a semi-circular cylindrical body with equal width at the top and bottom, flat at the front and round at the back. The upper end of the piano bar is provided with a mountain mouth, and the lower end of the piano bar is inserted into the square holes of the upper and lower frame plates of the piano case.

bridge
Wooden, in the shape of a long bridge, placed in the center of the panel.

strings
Zhang three silk or steel strings.