The significance of the seven strings on the guqin

Guqin originally had five strings, including gold, wood, water, fire and earth. External five tones, palace, business, angle, sign and feather. Later, in the Zhou Dynasty, and added two strings, Wen and Wu, symbolizing the harmony between the monarch and the minister, collectively known as the lyre. The exposed parts of the seven strings pass through Yueshan and Gui Long, and become a pair of "goose feet" at the bottom of the piano, symbolizing the seven stars.

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Chinese guqin culture has a long history. According to the traditional culture of China, there are five stars in the sky, five elements on the ground and five tones on earth. According to legend, Emperor Yan discovered music at the foot of Yangtou Mountain in Jingfeng, Qinyuan, and Shennong "cut tung into a piano and the strings into silk", creating the original piano.

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Due to the policy of suppressing martial arts in the Song Dynasty, from Song Taizong to the emperor to the ruling and opposition parties in the Song Dynasty, all of them were very good at playing the piano, and they were proud of their ability to play the piano, reaching the peak of good piano in previous dynasties. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Qin began to show obvious genre inheritance. In the late Southern Song Dynasty, 1 Guqin School Zhejiang School appeared, represented by Guo Mian.

Due to the decline of guqin and its symbolic cultural thought, guqin art was included in the second batch of world intangible cultural heritage representative list by UNESCO on June 7, 2003. On May 20th, 2006, People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council, China listed the guqin in the 1 national intangible cultural heritage list and classified it as "folk music".

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