Young musician mesmerizes foreign audiences with her traditional Chinese instrument, Cai Hong reports. Peng Jingxuan plays the guzheng near to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. [China Daily] When ...

Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

To tai chi master Guo Huaisheng, music floats from a guqin (a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family) like mist while melodies run from a piano like rainfall. "A great ...

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This is the ninth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

A Guqin, an ancient Chinese seven-stringed plucked musical instrument, was sold for 8.91 million yuan (US$1.07 million) at a local auction here Wednesday. The 1,250-year-old rare instrument, named "Da ...

A traditional stringed instrument made for Chinese emperorSong Huizong in 1120 has been auctioned off in Beijing for a record 136 million yuan ($20 million), state media said yesterday. The ...

Peng began to study the guzheng when she was 7. After graduating from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music in Central China's Hubei province in June 2017, she went to the Bordeaux Montaigne University in ...

One day, an elderly man sitting next to her told her after her performance, "you should take the guzheng to more European cities and share the beauty of Chinese music with more people because a lot of ...