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 ...

The concerts will feature nationally recognized inheritors of intangible cultural heritage alongside leading contemporary ...

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, ...

Behind a wooden door with copper nails and just beyond a bamboo curtain, musical scores written in Chinese calligraphy hang on a wall. The clean, pure sound of a stringed instrument greets the ear.

CHONGQING, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- During a gathering of amateur guqin players in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, numerous attendees eagerly queued up for a chance to play a rare piece of this ...

Once an indispensable part of the self-education for all highbrow intellectuals in China, the ancient art of seven-stringed guqin playing has long been confined into a musical skill or hobby only ...

Chinese Guqin, a seven-stringed bridgeless zither, was invented thousands years ago and has been included as an item in UNESCO’s Oral and Intangible Heritage project. Mr Wang Peng, a master maker and ...

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 ...