When French ­President ­Emmanuel ­Macron visited ­China in early April, he ­enjoyed a music ­performance during his trip to Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong Province. The artist played ...

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 ...

On the morning of Thursday, about 60 guqin (a plucked seven-stringed instrument created in ancient China) enthusiasts from across the country gathered at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Cheng, who has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, is founder of both the UK Chinese Ensemble and London Youlan Qin Society. She is also a researcher with the Chinese Music Department, University of London, ...

The history of the guqin dates back as far as 3,000 years ago. However, more young people are now bringing this ancient musical instrument back to the fore. Jacob Charles is a Mexican-American ...

In Jianghan district of Wuhan, Hubei province, Wu Youquan, an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of traditional guqin making, has spent over two decades transforming himself from a timber ...

On May 28, the Chinese Garden of Serenity in Santa Luċija hosted the concert Melodies of the Silk Road: A Mediterranean Journey of the Chinese Guqin, a special celebration of the International Day for ...

This is the sixth ina 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 instrument ...