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 ancient sounds of the guqin as played by Master Yang Qing. Speaking through a translator, he says the soft, elegant sounds of the seven-stringed guqin are designed to promote love. "The sounds of ...

Huang Fuzhao, a master maker of guqin, the Chinese seven-stringed zither, tunes one of his instruments at his workshop in Guangzhou, Guangdong province. ZOU ZHONGPIN / CHINA DAILY Few would think of ...

Made by veteran Hong Kong filmmaker Lau Shing-hon over 10 years, MUSIC BEYOND SOUND tells the story of an unlikely guqin master. In 1974, John Thompson, an American, went to Taiwan, then Hong Kong, to ...

Cheng, who has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, is founder of both the UK Chinese Ensemble and London Youlan Qin Society. She is also a researcher with the Chinese Music Department, University of London, ...

A Chinese music instrument Guqin is seen on display in the Museum of Gusli and Guqin in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 12, 2020. The Museum of Gusli and Guqin -- traditional Russian and Chinese music ...

The Sound of the Heart in the Fingers: A Concert of Yushan Wu School Guqin Music took place at Beijing Concert Hall on Sept 13, under the artistic direction of renowned guqin (Chinese seven-stringed ...

Cheng, who has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, is founder of both the UK Chinese Ensemble and London Youlan Qin Society. She is also a researcher with the Chinese Music Department, University of London, ...

The music of one of the worlds oldest instruments is often haunting and meditative, and a perfect place to enjoy it is in the beauty of Haywards Japanese Gardens, where a guqin social event will be ...

Once an indispensable part of the self-education for all highbrow intellectuals in China, the ancient art of seven-stringed guqin playing has long been confined into a musical skill or hobby only ...

A Chinese music instrument Guqin is seen on display in the Museum of Gusli and Guqin in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 12, 2020. The Museum of Gusli and Guqin -- traditional Russian and Chinese music ...