Introduction to Guzheng Introduction to Guzheng

1. Guzheng, also known as Hanzheng, Qinzheng, Yaozheng and Luanzheng, is a zheng musical instrument among the traditional instruments of the Han Chinese nation, and belongs to plucked instruments. It is one of the unique and important national musical instruments in China. The structure of guzheng consists of panel, strings, front yue shan, string pegs, tuning box, foot, back yue shan, side plate, sound outlet, bottom plate, stringing hole.

2, the shape of the zheng is a rectangular wooden speaker, the string frame "zheng column" (i.e., the goose column) can be moved freely, one string, one tone, according to the pentatonic scale, the earliest 38-string zheng for the most (sub-Thur-zheng), the strings of thirteen Tang and Song dynasty, and then increased to sixteen, eighteen strings, twenty-first string, twenty-five strings, etc., most commonly used specification is twenty-one strings. Specifications for twenty-one strings; usually used before the model of guzheng S21, S represents S-shaped Yue Shan, is Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin *** with the invention, 163 represents the length of the guzheng is about 163 centimeters, 21 represents the number of strings of the guzheng 21.