Unique Yangzhou Guzheng Culture

As a famous cultural city with a history of more than 2,500 years, Yangzhou has a tradition of "teaching songs by thousands of women first" since ancient times. Liu Yuxi's poem "Thirteen Strings of Zheng Qing Promoting Guangxi, A Businessman in Yangzhou" is also about Yangzhou Guzheng. Modern Yangzhou guzheng industry is in full swing. The academic conference of the highest standard in guzheng field has been held in Yangzhou for seven times, and the Golden Bell Guzheng has also been permanently settled in Yangzhou. Yangzhou guzheng production accounts for more than 2/3 of the national total. Yangzhou was awarded the reputation of "Hometown of Guzheng" by the Ministry of Culture in 1990s.

Yangpai Guzheng is a unique school among the schools of Guzheng. Yangzhou is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River, Huaihe River and Canal, and is known as "Wu Tou Chu Wei" and "Huai Zuo Du Ming". The development history of more than 2,000 years has given birth to dazzling regional economy and culture, such as Yangzhou salt industry, water transport, smelting, lacquerware and jade, as well as Yangzhou gardens, schools, painting schools, operas and religions. This is a special commercial consumption city.

From the Han, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in this long historical period, the cause of Yangzhou Guzheng continued to innovate and develop, and various elements were improved day by day. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, it was an important process for the development of Yangzhou Guzheng industry, and also laid a good foundation for the revival of Guzheng fever in Yangzhou ancient city in the 1980s. The formation of Yangzhou Guzheng and its career was the natural result of the precipitation of historical and traditional culture and the development of artistic tradition.

I don't think we can ignore this view, and we should strengthen in-depth research and thinking in this regard. Yangzhou Guzheng and the Inheritance of China Folk Music. Guzheng, Guangling School, Yangzhou Pinghua and Huaiyang Cuisine all belong to one of the intangible cultural heritages of mankind. As a wonderful flower of Yangzhou music art, Guzheng attracts the attention of the world with its profound cultural accumulation and special cultural and entertainment tools. It should be said that this is the contribution of Yangzhou Guzheng to China art, and it is a kind of inheritance relationship.

Many national academic exchange activities on guzheng art were held in Yangzhou, which promoted the development of guzheng industry in Yangzhou. It is reported that there are more than 20 guzheng enterprises/KLOC-0 in Yangzhou, with an annual output of nearly 200,000 sets and an output value of 200 million yuan. There are nearly 10 enterprises with an output value of 0/0 million yuan, and there are more than10 guzheng manufacturing patents. Guzheng production accounts for two-thirds of the national guzheng production, and some products have won gold medals in various competitions across the country.

Yangzhou traditional lacquerware, jade craft and guzheng decoration are perfectly combined, forming the distinctive features and symbols of "Yangzhou Zheng". Yangzhou Guzheng manufacturing industry, represented by famous brands such as Han Yun Guzheng, has entered a stage of prosperity and development, and has become a characteristic cultural industry in Yangzhou.