Appreciation of Ten Famous Guzheng Songs

The ten most famous guzheng songs are Fishing Boat Singing Late, Lotus Out of the Water, Mountain Flowing Water, Lin Chong Running at Night, Dong Dance, Autumn Moon in the Han Palace, Swimming in the West Western jackdaw, Shooting Drum in Xiangshan, Fishing Songs in the East China Sea and Shooting Drum in Xiangshan.

Guzheng, also known as Han Zheng, Qin Zheng, Yao Zheng and Luan Zheng, is a traditional national musical instrument in China, belonging to plucked instruments. It is one of the important national musical instruments unique to China. It has beautiful timbre, wide range, rich playing skills and strong expressive force, so it is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people. Now there are also small guzheng, portable guzheng, mini guzheng, semi-guzheng, new guzheng and twelve-tone guzheng.

The origin of guzheng

Guzheng is an ancient national musical instrument, which was born and raised in this fertile yellow land with the long culture of China. It is a plucked musical instrument, and its structure consists of a panel, a wild goose column (also called Zheng code in some areas), strings, a front Yueshan, a string nail, a tuning box, a piano foot, a back Yueshan, a side plate, a sound outlet, a bottom plate and a string piercing hole.

With the development of the times, in the 20th century, several other schools, namely "Chao, Lu, Yu and Zhe", were derived on the basis of the Northern and Southern Zheng Dynasties, which were very different from the contemporary schools and almost had their own strengths. Now it is generally divided into nine schools, as Cao Zheng said, "Nine schools are popular in China", and the Zheng music and playing methods of each school have their own characteristics.