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The guqin is a seven-stringed zither that owes its invention to ancient Chinese society some 3,000 years ago. During the Imperial Chinese period, a scholar was expected to play the guqin . Guqin was explored as an art-form as well as a science, and scholars strove to both play it well and to create texts on its manipulation.
It is a plucked zither with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 18, 21 or 25 strings. It is probably the best known traditional Korean musical instrument . [ 1 ] It is based on the Chinese guzheng and is similar to the Japanese koto , Mongolian yatga , Vietnamese đàn tranh , Sundanese kacapi and Kazakh jetigen .
The zheng (pinyin: zhēng; Wade–Giles: cheng), or guzheng (Chinese: 古筝; pinyin: gǔzhēng; lit. 'ancient zheng'), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is 64 inches (1.6 m; 5 ft 4 in) long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from Paulownia wood ...
Zheng have 21 strings (in contrast to guqin, which have seven). Accordingly, the zheng is louder and suitable for performing to groups of people. [4] Zheng have a 2,500 year history, beginning in the Qin dynasty. In the 19th century, its performance became popular and was learned by many people, who developed new ways to perform.
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The Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng (late 5th century BC) in Hubei contained a wealth of musical instruments, including a se, a complete set of bianzhong (bronze bells), a guqin (plucked zither), stone chimes, and a drum. The Institute of music of the Chinese Academy of Arts collects the se of the early Qing dynasty, 207 cm long and 43 cm wide.
Nanfeng Chang" is a guqin (ancient Chinese zither) piece composed based on the ancient verse "Song of the South Wind", allegedly from the time of Emperor Shun. [ 1 ] Multiple guqin tablatures have recorded this piece expressing people's yearning for the ideal government that "governs without interference", as exemplified by Emperor Shun.
One of his music works, the Gyokudō kinpu 玉堂琴譜, is available online. An excerpt is available Uragami Gyokudō and the chinese zither guqin based on the book Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters; The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō by Stephen Addiss, Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1987, ISBN 0-8248-1039-2.