What are the differences between guqin and guzheng in national musical instruments?

Chinese classical music has a long history. Thousands of years of culture have accumulated a variety of famous songs with lingering echoes, and at the same time, various classical musical instruments with rich cultural characteristics have been born, such as guzheng, harp and pipa. Modern people admire classical beauty more and more, and yearn for the ethereal posture of the ancients when playing musical instruments, so they choose to learn classical musical instruments one after another. The most common is the guzheng or guqin, so what's the difference between them? ?

Distinguish from the sound: in a word, what is a guzheng? More voices and less voices? And guqin is? How much noise is there? . The timbre of guzheng is clear, noble, elegant and beautiful, and it has a long lasting charm. The sound of guqin is clear, short and clean, which makes it sound more crisp and expressive.

From the appearance, the piano is generally about three feet six inches five (about 120? 125 cm), about six inches (about 20 cm) wide and about two inches (about 6 cm) thick. The unified specification of guzheng is 1.63m, 2 1 string. It can be seen that guzheng is bigger than guqin. Moreover, guzheng has many strings, while guqin has only seven strings, so it is also called lyre. A string has many tones, the range reaches four octaves, and it can play many overtones and tones, which is super expressive. Besides, in terms of style, guqin has more styles than guzheng. Guqin is divided into Zhong Ni style, Fuxi style, banana leaf style and chaos style; Guqin has thirteen emblems, that is, those points on the piano, * * * thirteen, guzheng doesn't.

Judging from the playing method, Guqin presses the strings with his left hand and plucks the strings with his right hand. In actual performance, you can play two strings at the same time for harmony. Guzheng mainly uses the thumb, forefinger and middle finger of the right hand to pluck the strings, and the left hand controls the tension of the strings.

Guqin and Guzheng are treasures of traditional music art in China. You can choose one of them for study and research according to your personal preference. However, music is interoperable. If you are proficient in guqin, you can play better than guzheng.