HONOLULU (AP) - Three centers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa are set to sponsor a concert featuring the Chinese seven-stringed plucked instrument known as the guqin. The event will be ...

7 3/4" wide x 2 1/2" deep 47 1/2" height 120.6 x 19.6 x 6.3 cm ...

“Wild Geese Descending Onto the Sand” is one of the most famous pieces of music ever composed for the guqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Meant to evoke the sound of geese flying by the ...

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 ...

BUDAPEST, March 22 (Xinhua) -- A special exhibition featuring ancient Chinese zithers, or Guqins, kicked off Friday evening at the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. Titled "The Voice of Nature and ...

BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- Within a courtyard adorned with a lotus pond, rugged rockeries and apricot trees in the southern suburban region of Beijing, a musician with a gray beard passionately plays ...

Tao Yuanming (365-427) — a paradigm of the recluse and cultural paragon of ancient China — famously played a stringless qin, declaring: "If one knows the inner significance of the qin, why make the ...

The following are some ancient Chinese musical instruments and musicals that appeared in the performances of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony on Friday night. Fou is the most ancient Chinese ...