On June 27th, the Confucius Institute at the University of Sheffield will collaborate with Peking University in an online event, exploring the Chinese opera form of Kunqu and the Guqin, featuring a ...

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 ...

White-collar workers learn playing the guqin (Chinese zither) at You Huang Li guqin salon. Nowadays, more and more white collars in pursuit of a slow life show great interest in traditional Chinese ...

Gao Peifen, the fifth-generation inheritor of the Zhucheng guqin school, promotes the traditional Chinese art form, along with her husband, Zhang Fusen. Provided to China Daily On June 8, China's ...

"The thick strings loudly thrum like pattering rain; The fine strings softly tinkle in a murmuring strain. When mingling loud and soft notes are together played, you hear orioles warble in a flowery ...

"There are notations of more than 3,000 songs passed down, but only around 100 songs have been given rhythm by older players," says guqin scholar Zhang Fusen, Gao's husband. To recover those ancient ...