What is the difference between guqin and guzheng?

Classical music in China has a long history, and thousands of years of cultural accumulation have produced a variety of famous songs, and also gave birth to a variety of classical musical instruments with strong cultural characteristics, such as guzheng, konghou, pipa, etc. Modern people are increasingly admiring the classical beauty and yearning for the misty posture of the ancients when they played their instruments, and have chosen to learn classical instruments. Modern people are more and more respecting the classical beauty, and they also long for the misty posture of ancient people when they play the instruments, so they choose to learn the classical instruments. The most common ones are guzheng or guqin, so what is the difference between these two?

Distinguished from sound: summarized in one sentence, that is: the guzheng is ? more sound, less sound? and the guqin is ? more sound and less sound? The tone of guzheng is clear, high and pure, elegant, and moving, with a kind of faraway charm. The tone of guqin is clear, short and clean, sounding more crisp and pleasant, with strong expressive power.

From the appearance distinction: the general length of the instrument is about three feet six inches five (about 120?125 centimeters), about six inches wide (about 20 centimeters), about two inches thick (about 6 centimeters). The guzheng, on the other hand, has a uniform specification of 1.63 meters and 21 strings. As you can see, the guzheng is bigger than the guqin. Moreover, the guzheng has more strings than the guqin, which has only seven strings, so it is also known as the seven-stringed zither. With multiple tones on one string, its range reaches up to four octaves, and it can play numerous overtones and press tones, which makes it super expressive. In addition, in terms of styles, the guqin has more styles than the guzheng. The guqin is divided into Zhongni style, Fuxi style, Banana Leaf style, and Chaos style; the guqin has thirteen emblems, that is, those dots on the zither, *** thirteen, while the guzheng does not.

From the playing method: the guqin to the left hand by the strings, the right hand plucked the strings, the actual playing, at the same time, you can pluck the two strings for the harmonic playing. The guzheng, on the other hand, mainly uses the right thumb, index finger and middle finger to pluck the strings, while the left hand controls the tension of the strings.

Whether the guqin or guzheng, are the treasures of traditional Chinese music and art, you can choose one of them according to personal preference to learn and study, but the music is interoperable, skilled guqin, compared to the guzheng can also be played some of the hands.