When was the "guzheng" invented?

It is said that as early as more than 2,000 years ago, the Qin State already had the zither.

So where did Zheng come from?

There is an interesting legend here: At that time, the Qin State had a musical instrument called zither.

There was a man named Wan Wuyi who was very skilled at playing the harp, and his two daughters also liked playing the harp very much.

One day, both sisters rushed to their father's place to learn how to play the harp. The elder sister ran fast and got the harp in her hand first. The coquettish sister was not willing to give in, so she hurried over and hugged the harp in her sister's hand.

The two of them were pulling at each other, refusing to give in to each other.

Suddenly, there was a "click" and Se was broken into two halves.

When my father heard the sound and hurried over, he couldn't help being stunned.

I saw that half of the sister's hands were thirteen-stringed strings, and half of the sister's hands were twelve-stringed strings.

He was anxious and angry, so he quickly took the harp from his two daughters' hands, sighed, touched it left and right, and plucked the strings with his fingers. To his surprise, half of the harp made a better sound.

Wan Wuyi had long forgotten to blame his daughter. He made some repairs to each half of the zither. As a result, this half of the zither played better than the original and sounded better!

He was so happy that he called the zither "Zheng" for "two women fighting and breaking into two".

From then on, "Zheng" spread in Qin.