Bing Xia: Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music
American Folklife Center
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Bing Xia performs on the Chinese guzheng, or zheng, a plucked zither that is thought to be about 2,500 years old ("gu" means "ancient" and has been added to the name zheng to indicate the great age of the zheng). The instrument changed over time, as the earliest guzheng had 12 strings, while the modern instrument has 21 to 25 strings. The guzheng is the ancestor of all Asian long zithers.
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