Why was the guqin so highly regarded by the ancients?

The reason why the guqin art can be unique and highly respected is that, in addition to the "optimal virtue of the qin", it is also due to its musical qualities that are in line with nature, intriguing, and in line with the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture that seeks for mood, advocates the inner, and implies implicit meanings, and that it contains the inner core of the spirit of the Chinese nation's culture and embodies the virtues of ancient people who cultivated and realized the Way, and became an important way and means of character cultivation and spiritual sublimation. It contains the core of Chinese culture and spirit, embodies the ancient people's virtue of cultivation and enlightenment, and becomes an important way and means of personality cultivation and spiritual sublimation.

Playing people in the guqin simple low and slow and quiet and faraway sound, by the restlessness into the quiet and then forgetting, "sitting alone in a secret grove, playing the qin again long whistle", "to the music to rule the heart, happy to be safe and secure for a long time". Confucius, founder of Confucianism, the qin is very respected, can play the qin singing three hundred poems, but also to the division Xiang learn qin, become a model for later generations of scholars.

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The development of the guqin

The Chinese guqin culture has a long history. Traditional Chinese culture believes that there are five stars in the sky, five elements on the earth, and five tones in the world's sound.

Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, held the qin in high esteem, and was able to play the qin and sing 300 poems from the Book of Songs, as well as learning the qin from Shixiang, which became a model for scholars in later generations. In later times, there were two qin songs, "Confucius Reads Easy" and "Sobbing Yan Hui". During the period of famous qin people also Shi Kuang, Liezi, Bo Ya, Yongmen Zhou, Confucius and so on.

The type of zither was determined in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Mawangdui 3 Han Tomb unearthed in the early Han seven-stringed zither structure is simple, smaller speakers, *** sound is small, the end of the solid wood, the panel without the emblem bit. East Han to Wei Jin period, the zither is very popular among the scholars.

North and South Dynasties period, the monarch and the scholar are fond of music and literature, the literati love qin to solve the sound, the wind is extremely prosperous; due to the restrictions on the literati of the scholarly clan gate system, making many literati cynical to qin book for self-entertainment. During this period, the earliest written music score appeared. Qiu Ming, a hermit in the Southern Dynasty, had a written music score called "Jieshi Tune - The Orchid". During this period, there were also famous zither players such as Dai Grand, Zong Bing and Liu Yun.

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