The guqin and guzheng, why was the ancient people think "one elegant and one vulgar"?

Because the guqin and guzheng are different from their origins, it is said that the guqin is a musical instrument invented by Fuxi, so that the qin has a high status in ancient societies, so in the minds of the ancients, the qin is considered to be played by the music is classical music, and in the rituals will also be used to play the music, and in the ancient times there will be a specialized staff for this kind of music. Musical instruments, and although the guzheng said that the music played is also very good, but at the very beginning is and some local opera or some folk music combined together, so that most of the folk use, so that the guqin and guzheng will be considered by the ancients one elegant and one vulgar.

From the point of view of the characteristics of the sound quality of these two instruments, there is also a big difference, the guqin played when the feeling of the sound quality is very thick, when talking about the time to be able to feel the aftermath of the sound of a long time, giving people a very quiet and distant feeling, in ancient times are based on the thinking of the Confucianism, so that the guqin played out of the style of the ancient literati more in line with the preferences, and in ancient times people were more in line with the ancient literati, and in the ancient times of the people's favor. preferences, and in ancient times people will also previously will have feet can be seen Qin this kind of thing in ancient times is very important, but also a lot of literati cultivation of a kind of musical instrument, and guzheng this kind of thing is relatively large in size, he went more in line with the preferences of ordinary people.

We have found in a lot of information in the guzheng most of the wider venue to play, may appear more in more public **** occasions, in the hearts of the ancients feel that the guqin is able to delight their own kind of musical instrument, while the guzheng is a kind of musical instrument to please other people, so no matter whether it is from the characteristics of the two kinds of musical instruments or to say that from the cultural connotation of both decided to the two kinds of The difference between the two musical instruments.

The guqin, whether in ancient times or in our present, is a very good musical instrument, can enhance the quality of people's requirements for the music, and now the guzheng is also very popular, the guqin in the performance of the time, more able to reflect the elegance of the close-up, so the people of the ancient times for the guqin is very favored.