"Qiushan Listen to Zen" Yuan Sha Guzheng performance from Yuan Sha's personal album "Lotus out of water".

Universal Music (China) released the solo album "Water Lotus" by Yuan Sha, a renowned Chinese zither player, on May 5.

The earliest records of traditional Chinese music date back to thousands of years ago. At that time, the ancients associated timbre with nature, reflecting the philosophy of harmonious coexistence of traditional Chinese music and all things. The album "Water Lotus" inherits the aesthetic spirit of Chinese culture. It chooses to record in nature in front of the Great Wall and Juyong Pass to restore the beautiful artistic conception of the scene, and interprets the feeling of the unity of nature and man with Guzheng, which is unique.

The album "Water Lotus" contains 12 classical pieces of traditional Chinese music, adapted pieces, modern works, contemporary works and improvisations. The works are almost all adapted and created by the performer Yuan Sha based on traditional Chinese music of different historical periods, such as Guangdong music, Kunqu Opera, Zhejiang Yue Opera, Shaanxi Qinqiang Opera and Yangzhou Qingqu. With Guzheng as the main line, the music integrates the harmony and timbres of traditional instruments such as flute and xiao as well as western instruments such as harp and guitar, enriching the color sense of the music and highlighting the beautiful artistic conception of Guzheng music in the long and profound poetry of ancient music. "I often live in the hustle and bustle of the world, eager to change my mood and poetical life," said Yuan Sha. "Therefore, I have this trip of Zheng music, which is to leave without saying anything and to devote myself to the landscape."