Su Yitong guzheng playing "Jackdaw Playing in the Water"

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Su Yitong's guzheng performance "Jackdaw Playing in the Water" comes from the album "Music: Guzheng - Su Yitong".

"Jackdaw Playing in the Water" is one of the top ten sets of Chaozhou music, which belongs to the heavy six-tone mode. This piece has beautiful melody, fresh style and unique charm, and is known as Chaoshan "state music". The music uses portamento, percussion and vibrato in the expression method, using the combination of percussion and sliding, alternating high and low octaves, with fluent and brisk flower fingers, depicting jackdaw wandering among the blue waves of the same color in the water and sky in the late autumn. The leisurely and contented, chasing and playful scenes are used to express a leisurely life.

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Su Yitong, a young Chinese guzheng player, founded the Beijing Guoyin Yaleqin Museum in 2012, and in 2013 established the "Zhonghua Zheng" Five-color String Orchestra.
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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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