# Bing Xia: Traditional Chinese Guzheng Music

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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2015
- By: American Folklife Center
- Genres: Music
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689773/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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