CHINESE MUSIC – Contemporary Traditional Chinese Music

When your geographical horizon extends – for business or pleasure – you have the wonderful opportunity to hear you inside, like the perfectly proportioned man (created by Leonardo da Vinci), correlating the symmetry of human anatomy to the symmetry of the universe. What you see, hear, eat and feel, it’s all inside the Vitruvian approach to life. String instruments from China? Five instruments of traditional Chinese music, even now help us to understand the inner landscape of music, of a great nation. The instrumentalist holds the Pipa upright and play with five small plectra attached to each finger of the right hand. Liuqin is played with a piece of spectrum, and is used to be accompany instrument for folk songs and local opera. Sanxian, a long necked lute with three strings without frets. Ruan (commonly referred to as Chinese guitar), is an ancient four-stringed moon-shaped lute with long and straight neck and various number of frets. Yueqin, the moon-shaped lute with shorter neck and four strings, played with a spectrum, used for accompanying local operas.

Guzheng – Breathing by Chang Jing

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