Why is it that the pipa of a thousand years is the zheng of ten thousand years?

This claim comes from the internet and has no logic or traceability. The history of our country is only 5,000 years old, and the pipa and zheng are only a few hundred years old. This statement is an exaggeration of the difficulty of learning the instrument, and a side note that it takes a lot of time and practice to become proficient in these two instruments.

Why is the pipa a thousand years old and the zheng a thousand years old?

The pipa is a plucked instrument, and is also a more famous plucked instrument, learning the pipa is the thumb to pick inward, the two fingers combined that is to play the picking technique, as a folk music heritage, learning the pipa is also at least 3 years to master the playing skills, but this is only to achieve the playing of the level of the introductory.

The zheng is commonly known as the Qin zheng, which was passed down from the Spring and Autumn period in Qindi, now Shaanxi. The guzheng has a history of more than 2,000 years, and there are many playing techniques, but it is easier to get started compared to the pipa, and it is easier to get started when you have control of the introductory playing methods, plus diligent study and practice.

The traditional Chinese musical instrument is also the flute, which is an ancient traditional musical instrument originating from the Neolithic period, and is also a very representative of traditional musical instruments in the national characteristics of the wind instrument. The vast majority of flutes are made of bamboo, but with the advancement of craftsmanship, they are also made of stone, such as stone flute, jade flute and mahogany flute. The range of the flute is usually more than two octaves, and the representative works include "Happy Together" and "Pastoral Flute".

But no matter what kind of musical instrument, to achieve proficiency, you need to learn hard, overnight can not be refined, a thousand years of pipa ten thousand years of zheng is to describe the instrument is difficult to learn, want to learn to complete the need to spend a very long time, compared with other musical instruments in terms of the more time-consuming.