What are the characteristics of guzheng

The guzheng is characterized by its beautiful tone, wide range, rich playing skills and considerable expressive power.

Related introduction:

The guzheng belongs to plucked instruments. It is one of the unique and important national musical instruments in China. The shape of the zheng is a rectangular wooden speaker, the string frame "zhengzhu" (i.e., the goose column) can be moved freely, one string, one tone, arranged according to the pentatonic scale, the earliest 25-stringed zheng for the most (sub-thread for zheng), the Tang and Song dynasties have strings of thirteen, and then increased to sixteen, eighteen strings, twenty-one strings, and so on.

The traditional way of playing the guzheng is to pluck the strings with the four fingers of the right hand, namely, the big, forefinger, middle, and ring finger, to play the melody and master the rhythm, and to adjust the pitch and perfect the melody by playing with the left hand, as well as by complying with the tension of the strings on the left side of the zither post and controlling the change of string tone.

Expanded Information

Related Background:

In 1965, Wang Changyuan successfully created the guzheng song "Battle of Typhoon", "Battle of Typhoon", "the emergence of the guzheng," so that the guzheng's performance of the technology, techniques, and entered a new height, thus ending the guzheng can only be played lightly slow kneading the era of the guzheng, the sweeping rocking of the four points of this song, In this song, the sweeping and shaking of four points, the dense shaking, the buckling and shaking, and the scraping to create the effect of the typhoon are all innovative techniques.

The guzheng is often used for solo performance, repertoire, instrumental ensemble and the accompaniment of songs, dances, operas and operas, and the music of guzheng is generally characterized by the symmetry of the structure, the smoothness of the melody, the regularity of the rhythm, and the emotionality of the content.

Guzheng music was widely used in ancient times, welcomed and loved by people from all walks of life, and was a kind of elegant and popular **** appreciation of the art, its entertainment was more prominent. Zither players from the emperors and generals, down to the common people, especially the literati integrated the art of guzheng into their poems and songs, which played a certain role in their creation.

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