Guzheng, also known as Han Zheng, Qin Zheng, Yao Zheng and Luan Zheng, is a traditional national musical instrument in China, belonging to plucked instruments. It is one of the important national musical instruments unique to China. Guzheng structure consists of panel, strings, front Yueshan, string nails, tuning box, piano feet, back Yueshan, side plates, sound holes, bottom plate and string holes.
brief introduction
The shape of the Zheng is a rectangular wooden sound box, and the string frame "Zheng column" (that is, the wild goose column) can move freely, and each string is arranged with five tones. At first, there were the most 38-string Zheng (Fense Zheng). In the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were 13 strings, and then it increased to 16, 18, 2 1 and 25 strings.
The most commonly used specification is 2 1 string. Usually, the model of guzheng begins with S2 1, and S stands for S-shaped Moon Mountain, which was invented by Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin. 163 represents the length of the guzheng, and 2 1 represents the number of strings of the guzheng.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Guzheng (plucked musical instrument)