Introduction to guzheng

Guzheng, also known as Han Zheng, Qin Zheng, Yao Zheng and Luan Zheng, is a traditional national musical instrument in China, belonging to plucked instruments. It is one of the important national musical instruments unique to China. It has beautiful timbre, wide range, rich playing skills and strong expressive force, so it is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people.

Now there are also small guzheng, portable guzheng, mini guzheng, semi-guzheng, new guzheng and twelve-tone guzheng. Guzheng is an ancient national musical instrument, which was born and raised in this fertile yellow land with the long culture of China. The structure consists of panel, wild goose column (also called Qin code in some areas), strings, front Yueshan, string nails, tuning box, piano feet, back Yueshan, side plates, sound holes, bottom plate and string holes.

The appearance of the guzheng is a rectangular wooden sound box, and the string frame "Zheng column" (that is, wild goose column) can move freely, and five sounds are arranged in one string. At the earliest, there were 25-string guzheng (divided into guzheng), with 13 strings in Tang and Song Dynasties, and then increased to 16, 18, 2 1 string, etc. At present, the most commonly used specification is 2 1 string; Generally, the models of guzheng are preceded by S 163-2 1, where S stands for the S-shaped Moon Mountain, which is Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin * * *, 163 stands for the length of guzheng, and 2 1 stands for the number of strings of guzheng.

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In guzheng education, most of the works are presented through performance and appreciation. Rich and colorful teaching contents and flexible teaching forms promote students' ability to know, understand and create musical beauty. The more aesthetic experience of music is accumulated, the more moral education will be deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Guzheng music generally has the characteristics of symmetrical structure, smooth melody, regular rhythm and emotional content, which can directly stimulate students' sensory organs until the brain and nervous system are relaxed and excited, thus generating creative thinking and rich imagination. Zheng music is elegant and subtle, with smooth and beautiful melody, which can express many things, improve people's aesthetic ability, purify the soul and cultivate sentiment.

Guzheng music has been widely used in ancient times and is welcomed and loved by people from all walks of life. It is an art that appeals to both refined and popular tastes, and its entertainment performance is more prominent. Guzheng performers, from emperors to generals to ordinary people, especially the literati who integrated the art of guzheng into poems and songs, played a certain role in their creation.

In the folk, Zheng music appeared in the performances of professional geisha, and performed in public places of entertainment, restaurants, karaoke bars and other places, with a wide audience and strong entertainment. In modern society, many large-scale cultural performances often have different forms of guzheng performances, which are deeply loved by the public. Many people learn guzheng because they like its timbre and sense of elegance when playing it, and apply the knowledge gained from learning guzheng and intangible accomplishment to their lives, making life colorful.

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