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Post by Si on Feb 9, 2006 15:52:03 GMT
I have been interested in Gu Qin for years and occasionaly it will crop up in converstaion. Funny thing is in China the people I talk to do not no what a Gu Qin is. I say Gu Qin and they say oh you mean Gu Zheng, and I explain what is it as they either just think I have it all wrong, or they are a bit shy at not knowing!
Turns out that my assistant plays the Xiao, I told him that maybe we can play together if I ever learn how to play the qin. His reason for learning the Xiao was cos it cost only 8 rmb when he was a kid!
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Post by sanmenxia on Feb 9, 2006 17:53:55 GMT
Quote"I say Gu Qin and they say oh you mean Gu Zheng, and I explain what is it as they either just think I have it all wrong, or they are a bit shy at not knowing!"
I've had the same reaction too!
I suppose it's a bit like eg the shawn or psaltery, or the difference between a violin and viola, in the west , it's not something the ordinary person would know about.
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Post by sleepy on Feb 10, 2006 1:29:55 GMT
I have been interested in Gu Qin for years and occasionaly it will crop up in converstaion. Funny thing is in China the people I talk to do not no what a Gu Qin is. I say Gu Qin and they say oh you mean Gu Zheng, and I explain what is it as they either just think I have it all wrong, or they are a bit shy at not knowing! 1 Guqin has yet become popular enough for the public to know 2 "The scohlar's instrument"—guqin has always been somewhat exclusive, thanks to the literati who adopted the qin as their own 3 To a good proportion of the mainland Chinese public, music is a luxury |
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Post by Si on Feb 10, 2006 3:13:41 GMT
I hear what you are saying about the shawn or psaltery. These instruments have basically been dead for 100s of years. Its only in the last 100y that we have begun to use them in early music. But did the gu qin ever fall out of use? I think its always been there. But as traditional music is so uncool in china, not may people are interested in the subject.
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Post by Charlie Huang on Feb 10, 2006 12:56:40 GMT
Guqin has an unbroken history. It declined during the Cultural Revo, but it has survived that and gained momentum during the past decade.
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