Overview

"Lantern Festival" is a guzheng music piece composed by the famous Chinese guzheng player Cao Dongfu.

Guzheng, also known as Han Zheng, Qin Zheng, Yao Zheng, and Luan Zheng, is a zither instrument among the traditional musical instruments of the Han nationality in China. It is a plucked instrument. It is one of China's unique and important national musical instruments. The guzheng structure consists of panel, strings, front mount, string pegs, tuning box, feet, rear mount, side panels, sound outlet, bottom plate, and string holes.

The shape of the zither is a rectangular wooden speaker. The string frame "zither pillar" (i.e. the wild goose pillar) can be moved freely. One string and one note are arranged according to the pentatonic scale. At the earliest, the 38-string zither was the most (divided). Zheng (zither) had thirteen strings in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and later increased to sixteen strings, eighteen strings, twenty-one strings, twenty-five strings, etc. The most commonly used specification is twenty-one strings.

Usually the guzheng model is preceded by S21, where S stands for the S-shaped Yueshan, which was co-invented by Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin. 163 represents the length of the guzheng, which is about 163 centimeters, and 21 represents the number of 21 strings.