What books should I read if I want to know more about guqin culture?

If you want to know more about the culture of the guqin, I would like to recommend a few books: The Way of the Guqin, New History of the Guqin, Guqin Series Talks, The History of the Guqin in China. These books are not only rich in content and depth, but also elegantly bound and pleasing to the eye, all of which are good books for learning to understand the culture of the guqin at an introductory level.

Guqin culture, as a typical representative of traditional Chinese culture, carries the essence of three thousand years of Chinese culture. It was created by those beautiful minds in history and has been immortalized with the beauty-loving Chinese for thousands of years.

The Way of the Guqin

Famous Jinling guqin artist and Wu Men qin man Lao Tong shares his years of experience in learning the qin, and brings together more than 100 precious and exquisite pictures to y interpret the ancient and colorful Chinese guqin culture. The Way of the Guqin: The Way of the Qin, Qin Learning, Qin Man, Qin Cultivation" is an ancient relic, a treasure of the past, a sound in the ear, all things centrifugal.

The author points out from an orthodox point of view the "qin way", "qin art", "qin character", "qin virtue", "qin culture", "qin culture" and "qin culture". The author points out from the orthodox point of view the difference between the cultural spirit, ideological connotation and mere skill that exists between "qin way", "qin art", "qin character", "qin virtue" and "qin skill".

Examining the laws of humanism and materialism, he points out the usefulness of the "clear, subtle, tranquil, and distant" way of playing the qin in adjusting people's physical and mental well-being in the hustle and bustle of social life.

By answering many of the concerns about the qin, this book seeks to help readers to compare, appreciate, and understand the "way of the qin" from the subtleties of the "way of the instrument" and the "instrument", the way of the qin and its techniques.

The whole book is written in a simple and honest manner, and the author's deep love for the qin road and his feelings for traditional Chinese culture can be seen in every line of the book, which is rare to find in a heartfelt place, and commendable in a frank and straightforward place! The author, Xu Jian, still devotes himself to the study of the qin at the age of eighty or ninety, hooks and sinks into the historical materials, and significantly revises and expands the old works of the past years, adding nearly half of the length of the book, and "The New Compilation of the History of the Qin" is yet another new work of Mr. Xu Jian.

The New Edition of the History of the Guqin is a comprehensive and systematic compendium of the history of the development of the art of the guqin, taking the era as the scripture, and the order of the pre-Qin, the two Han Dynasties, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the North and South Dynasties, the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the modern era as the order of the development of the guqin; it also covers a wide range of fields of the qin science with qin artists, qin tunes and qin theories as the latitude.

Guqin Series

Some people say that the author of this book, Guo Pingjun, is a rare person who loves, understands and knows the qin.

This book begins with the production of the guqin (good material and the United States hacking said ware), talked about the sound quality characteristics of the guqin (qin sound characteristics of the qin "nine virtues"), and talked about playing the qin all sorts of instructions to the qin "know the sound" (qin to whom to play), said the sound of the qin --Said the soulmate), said Yu Bo Ya and Zhong Ziqi, Jikang and "Guangling San", Tao Yuanming and stringless zither - an ancient zither can tell countless wonderful stories, on the "playing spectrum "on "playing the score", fingering, and the subject matter of the zither.

The author also discusses the musical characteristics of traditional qin music, the general character of the qin and the style of the genre, compares the differences in approach between early qin music and recent qin music, and finally introduces the contemporary guqin master, Guan Pinghu, and offers his own insights into the modern inheritance of the qin.

The author once called the guqin "the most beautiful of all artifacts" because "it was created by the beautiful minds of history, and has been immortalized for thousands of years with the beauty-loving Chinese.

The History of the Chinese Zither

This is a very interesting book, which belongs to the history of the guqin. Mr. Yin Wei, with his witty and easy-to-understand language style, traces the development of the Chinese seven-stringed zither from its early days, from its budding to its modern prosperity, and shows the creation of zither masters in various eras and the elegance and charm of their masterpieces.

The characters in the book range from officials and celebrities to the scholar, and the stories are elegant and leisurely, as well as slang and vulgarity, and there are even one or two stories about the guqin that are not out of place, which more realistically restore the life of the ancient literati and the scholarly world.

Vividly depicted, vivid sense of picture, all bring the reader a burst of pleasure. It makes the readers smile in the middle of the book, and injects interesting elements into the originally boring theoretical study of qin, which inadvertently increases the readers' interest in reading.

The author hopes that the readers can understand the texture of the Chinese culture for thousands of years through these beautiful stories, and also hopes that some of the readers with higher education can realize the similarities and differences between China and the West in the ecological and cultural aspects, and appreciate the wonders of the Chinese people's survival.

There are many more, so I won't list them all.

The guqin is a marvelous instrument that the ancient Chinese sages have left to the future generations, and it is of great help to the cultivation of life, the nurturing of the body, and the establishment of the life and virtue. Its loose and open tone, its soothing and simple tunes, and its tranquil and solemn demeanor, and the simple and serene mood that it contains, conveying a quiet and distant atmosphere, can evoke the memories of the tranquil and remote, and make people go back to their primitive homeland, and this is a good way for the nervous and anxious to return to their original home. This is very important and precious for modern people who are nervous and anxious.

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