"Jackdaw Playing in the Water" Yuan Sha's Guzheng Explanation and Teaching
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"Jackdaw Playing in the Water" was performed by Guo Ying in 1996, and it is a Chaozhou folk music. This piece is beautiful in melody, fresh in style and unique in charm. It is called Chaoshan "Zhou Song" (Chaoshan, roughly referring to Chaozhou Prefecture), and it is the most poetic piece of the top ten pieces of Chaozhou's string poem "Soft Cover". The whole piece has a unique and elegant melody, fresh style, unique charm, bright ups and downs, and interprets the scene of jackdaws leisurely and contentedly in the water, chasing and playing with each other. This video is taught by performer Yuan Sha.

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Yuan Sha, a Chinese guzheng performing artist, has funded and trained dozens of disabled and impoverished students over the years, enabling them to embark on the road of guzheng art and become self-reliant, cultivate nearly 2,000 guzheng education talents, and hold special guzheng music performances at home and abroad. Nearly 200 conferences and lectures have been held, and dozens of textbooks and CD-ROMs have been published, which has made great contributions to the promotion and popularization of guzheng art.
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Guzheng (pinyin: Gǔ Zhēng), also known as Hanzheng and Qinzheng, is an ancient national musical instrument of the Han nationality and is popular all over China. It is often used for solo, duet, instrumental ensemble and accompaniment of song and dance, opera and folk art. Because of its wide range, beautiful timbre, rich playing skills and strong expressiveness, it is known as the "King of Music", also known as "Oriental Piano", and is one of the unique and important national musical instruments in China.

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