Sheet music collection (1 set of 5 volumes)

Author: Yang Lun, Ming Dynasty
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: The guqin is one of the most enchanting art forms in Chinese culture, highly esteemed by the sages of past generations. It is considered an essential art for literati and scholars, alongside calligraphy, painting, and Go, and has endured throughout the course of ancient Chinese civilization. It has become a concrete expression of self-cultivation and refinement, leading to the saying "the four arts of qin, chess, calligraphy, and painting." The Chinese guqin has a long history; it appeared in ancient rituals and grand ceremonies as early as the remote antiquity. Its exact origin time remains unclear, as modern people find it difficult to provide precise historical. Legend has it that Shennong created the qin by "carving a tree into a qin and twisting silk into strings." Additionally, there is the theory that Fuxi invented the qin, and there is also the tradition that Shun created a five-stringed qin to sing the "Southern Wind."