To tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great ...

The Chinese guqin is a seven-stringed zither without bridges. It has a history of over 3,000 years and is a symbol of the Chinese musical tradition. More than 100 teachers and students from Russia, ...

This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Editor's note: Guqin, a plucked seven-string zither, is one of the oldest and most revered traditional Chinese musical instruments. Known for its refined sound and deep cultural symbolism, the Guqin ...

Guqin player Sun Ying and singer Yang Huahua blend guqin with vocals and release their album, Fantastic Telling, featuring seven songs they adapted from some of the most famous traditional Chinese ...

Romania's National Museum of Art will host on June 26 the cultural event 'Conversation and Connection - Music Holds the World Together'. The event dedicated to the International Day for Dialogue among ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...