"Silk Road Imagination" Su Chang's Guzheng performance is from the guzheng ensemble album "Chang Xiang Zheng Group".

Chang Xiang Zheng Group - Guzheng Ensemble Album was officially released by Beijing Global Audio & Video Publishing Co., LTD on June 21, 2022 (Summer Solstice).

Su Chang, associate professor of the Department of Folk Music of the Central Conservatory of Music, is a famous zither performer and the artistic director of Chang Xiang Zither Troupe. The Chang Xiang Zheng Troupe was planned and formed by Su Chang in 2017. The average age of members of the troupe is 18 years old, and the youngest member is 11 years old. It is composed of undergraduates from the Central Conservatory of Music and affiliated High School students. This album, led by teacher Su Chang and 14 students, gathered outstanding composers from all over the country and collected 14 pieces with different styles. It includes traditional music, modern music, transplanted and adapted Western music and original works of students. The Changxiang Zheng Group is committed to carrying forward traditional Chinese culture, showing the charm of the guzheng, and trying to make the Guzheng with a history of more than 2,000 years radiate new style in various forms.

Thoughts on the Silk Road by Zhang Yuxuan

The ancient Silk Road began in the Han and flourished in the Tang. The Silk Road, as the only window through which China could see the changes in the world, became an important channel of communication between China and the West for thousands of years. In order to explore and protect this channel, the brave and wise Chinese people, again and again with dreams to the west. Parting Changan, horse noise west wind, camel bell long, involved in the sky yellow sand spread to the horizon, gradually ethereal

It has spread ancient Chinese and Western civilization, left a bright cultural treasure, inherited the precious spirit of the Silk Road, shining in the long history.

In the new era, the Silk Road has taken on new significance. By advancing the Belt and Road Initiative and building a community with a shared future for mankind, China has demonstrated its sense of responsibility as a major country.

Dream of Silk Road Zheng Ensemble was completed in March 2021, created for Chang Xiang Zheng Troupe of Central Conservatory of Music. Composer Zhang Yuxuan Outlines the arduous journey of business travel on the Silk Road in the past through music, depicting the mysterious and clever murals, lonely travelers, desolate and rough ancient road, the desert smoke straight, long river falling yen vast picture, enthusiastic wild people along the way, singing and dancing and other scenes, trying to present the prosperity and brilliance of the Silk Road in the music, bring listeners unlimited imagination.