Chinese instruments

Butterfly-style zheng (pinyin: dié shì zhēng) In November 1980, the butterfly-style zheng designed by He Baoquan passed the "Technical Appraisal" of the Science and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of Culture of China, and won the "Second Prize for Cultural and Scientific Achievements of the People's Republic of China" in 1980. The achievement of the butterfly-style zheng lies in that its string arrangement breaks through the pentatonic scale, reaches the 7-tone scale, is easy to transpose, can play twelve equal temperaments, greatly expands the playing range, and can be integrated into the orchestra to play the concerto function.

Butterfly-style zheng, the zither body is like two zithers together, using a resonance body. Added semitones or inflections between certain string spacings in the pentatonic tuning. String hooks are also fitted to change the pitch of certain tunings.

Since its birth, the butterfly zheng has been in the process of continuous improvement, and its shape and structure have undergone many subtle changes. The author will mainly introduce the foldable butterfly zheng successfully trial-produced in 2007. This butterfly zither is designed to be folded on the basis of the commonly used butterfly zither, so it has both the shape of the commonly used butterfly zither and the latest design concept.

Butterfly kite is the product of trial and improvement. It splices the heads of two zithers together, symmetrical to the left and right, and the outer shape is like a butterfly, hence the name.