Guqin player Wang Peng will participate in cultural events in Romania on June 26 and 27, sharing knowledge of the ancient Chinese musical instrument and its rich cultural history. [Photo provided to ...

NEW YORK—Guqin, one of the oldest musical instruments of China, was banned during the Cultural Revolution by the Chinese Communist Party. But today, musicianship in guqin is experiencing a revival.

A renewed appreciation of the seven-stringed zither is as much about understanding ancient Chinese culture as it is enjoying the music When civil servant Jackel Wan Chak-kui, 28, first heard a guqin ...

Against a serene natural backdrop, like sunlight flickering on the surface of a lake, or a vast, flower-strewn meadow, and clad in traditional Chinese attire, guqin player Xu Chaoran aims to create an ...

The guqin, or qin, is a seven-stringed, classical musical instrument that is a relative of the zither family, and has a history in China of about 5,000 years. Scholars and sages considered the qin as ...

CHONGQING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- During a gathering of amateur guqin players in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, numerous attendees eagerly queued up for a chance to play a rare piece of this ...

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 ...

A series of cultural activities, recently held at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and the Long Island School of Chinese, featured exhibitions of Chinese poetry, calligraphy, painting ...

(ECNS)--Audiences at an ancient theatre in Beijing have had a chance to enjoy the amazing sound of five antique guqin. The guqin is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither ...

A traditional stringed instrument made for Chinese emperor Song Huizong in 1120 has been auctioned off in Beijing for a record 136 million yuan (20 million US dollars), state media said Monday. The ...

When civil servant Jackel Wan Chak-kui, 28, first heard a guqin being played, he was a young boy wandering through Chi Lin Nunnery, in Diamond Hill. He remembers being entranced by the instrument’s ...