Netizen: My daughter is 10 years old and has just learned guzheng. What size of fake nails should she use? What material are false nails made of?

Wang Zhongshan: This depends on the child's own conditions. If the fingers are longer, the nails should be larger than the nails. For younger children, the nails should be slightly smaller. Generally speaking, it is best for your fake nails to be slightly longer than your own fingers, without affecting your pronunciation and the flexible movement of your fingers. Generally, we use tortoiseshell, which is an animal floating in the sea. It looks like a turtle. Its armor is the most suitable material for guzheng nails.

Netizen: Can any kind of person learn guzheng? Are there any finger requirements?

Wang Zhongshan: From the perspective of me teaching guzheng, what I sell is what I shout. In general, I believe that all kinds of people should be able to learn guzheng. Why? Because the guzheng instrument itself does not require a lot of strength. Second, its structure is relatively simple and uncomplicated, it is relatively easy to operate, and it is suitable for ordinary people to carry it in all aspects. Regardless of age, everyone should be able to operate it easily when learning guzheng.

Netizen: Are there any special requirements for your fingers when playing guzheng?

Wang Zhongshan: There are no special requirements. As long as your fingers develop normally and you have no disabilities, there will be no problem in general learning. Because during the exam process, I found that some people often asked me this question. I even saw some four or five-year-old children taking part in competitions and exams across the country, and people in their sixties also taking part in exams. This is normal. Moreover, they play wonderfully and are all excellent. Many people are late bloomers and eventually become guzheng masters. This is normal. In my opinion, learning guzheng does not have so many restrictions.

Moderator: We understand that you have given solo concerts or academic lectures in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Beijing, Shanghai and other cities at home and abroad.

Netizen: Do you have such a performance in China? Are there many types and quantities?

Wang Zhongshan: A lot. I have given twenty or thirty solo concerts in mainland China, plus nearly fifty solo concerts overseas. On July 16th, there was just a concert of teachers and students of Wang Zhongshan at the Zhongshan Concert Hall. It was titled "Love in Landscapes" and was organized by the Zhongshan Orchestra during the summer to open the door to the guzheng for middle school students and music lovers, a famous series. In addition, I went to Shenzhen on August 8th and Hong Kong on August 17th. Soon on September 10th, I will work hand in hand with Professor *** from the Central Conservatory of Music to present a guzheng concert by famous teachers Li Meng and Wang Zhongshan at the Zhongshan Concert Hall.

Netizen: Do you have any performances recently?

Wang Zhongshan: It’s the one on September 10th. I heard that many people are looking forward to it. Students and teachers from Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Wuhan Conservatory of Music, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, and even conservatories in faraway areas of Yunnan came to watch the performance.

Netizen: When I first learn guzheng, is it better to choose a traditional guzheng or a modified guzheng? How should I choose?

Wang Zhongshan: I think this formulation is not reasonable enough. There is no such thing as traditional zither and modified zither. He should ask whether it is better to use a general-purpose zither or another type of zither. The general-purpose zither is not called a traditional zither, because there is no traditional zither now, and all zithers have been changing from historical evolution to today. The zither we use now is a 21-string, S-type 21-string general-purpose zither. This kind of zither is used by various art schools and professional performance teams across the country. Now all the modified zithers are experimental products and have not entered the teaching of professional schools or professional performance groups. They are all in the trial stage, so we have not encountered such problems in the learning process. Generally speaking, they are just like pianos, which are normal. Pianos with more than 80 keys are used all over the world. Now when it comes to whether it is better to use a piano with 200 keys or a piano with 80 keys, of course I would say that it is better to use a piano that is commonly used. Just like I said about the 21-string guzheng, I still recommend that everyone use it.

The universal guzheng recognized by our colleges and grading departments.

Netizen: Can I learn guzheng by myself? Can I learn guzheng on my own by watching the instructional CD?

Wang Zhongshan: Generally speaking, learning guzheng through VCD is a very fashionable learning method, which is different from my previous learning experience. When we were young, we first learned this method of learning orally and by heart. Then after entering professional schools, you and I went to an art school, where we started to perform formal performances. The professional training in the school system is very rigorous, and there are teachers on-site. Guidance, and you arrange etudes and music to jointly complete the artistic expression of this musical work. But now various publishing houses and relevant education departments have published their own VCDs for grading examinations, as well as some self-study teaching materials. For those young and old in remote areas who do not have good teachers, I think it may be helpful to those who are new to learning guzheng. But if you want to improve further, I believe it will be difficult for him to reach a very high level just by watching VCDs. He may not understand some simple and elementary questions that he doesn't understand, or is a beginner who doesn't understand much. VCD questions and the study of some books are still possible, but if you want to enter the professional level and demand yourself more strictly, I believe you must undergo professional training and be tutored by professional teachers.

Moderator: In this learning method, materials can be used as supplementary materials.

Wang Zhongshan: Yes, VCD can only be used as an auxiliary, and it is not enough to rely on it.

Netizen: Can you recommend some textbooks suitable for beginners?

Wang Zhongshan: Nowadays, guzheng learning is not as systematic as piano and violin in terms of the formulation of teaching materials and the arrangement of the entire course. Because the guzheng subject and professional teaching courses were opened relatively late, it should be This discipline was established only after liberation. Therefore, its teaching materials and its etudes and other auxiliary basic training and courses in this area are not systematic enough. We teachers need to develop relevant teaching materials in the next step, for example, under the unified teaching plan of the National Education Commission. But these things that are currently popular on the market may be beneficial to your child's beginner learning, but they cannot be as rigorous as Czerny's piano exercises and Thompson's, and they can be spoken level by level. Now I see that the books that teachers have worked hard to produce are all helpful to children, but I have not yet made a conclusion on who is the most authoritative.

Netizen: When I learn guzheng, I still can’t play beautiful and charming music, and the sound is hard. What is it that I’m not doing well in?

Wang Zhongshan: The guzheng is a very ancient instrument with the characteristics of traditional Chinese culture. This instrument is usually played with the right hand and played with the left hand. It is the right hand that actually produces the sound, and the left hand produces the ancient sounds. After the left hand pronounces the sound, the right hand repairs the original sound. The expression of charm or local style is expressed by the soft, dark and smooth trembling of the left hand. At this time, teachers generally teach the single notes of the right hand, such as 323564165, but the teacher teaches 323564165. However, if an experienced teacher shows a combination of style and guzheng characteristics, the left hand must be added, and the left hand must be used to slide Only by seeking sound can we soften the melody and make it have Chinese melody and characteristics. For beginners, teachers rarely teach them the soft, dark, slippery, trembling, and other changes in their left hand. This change includes changes in numbers, changes in timbre, and changes in intensity. Therefore, the child only knows how to play a very stiff melody sound with his right hand, or even scratch it out. When we say scratching, it is very vividly said, scratching. Therefore, the sound he plays cannot be very good, because he does not have the modification of the left hand, lacks the characteristics of Chinese music, and does not have the various changes of the guzheng, so it is hard. However, I believe that through the gradual in-depth teaching of teachers, these related issues will gradually be improved.

Moderator: There is no need to rush. It is normal for beginners to be dry and do not have the skills to deal with timbre.

Wang Zhongshan: The main reason is that the problems related to the left hand are not handled well. I mean if a beginner child cannot play the strings well, it must be that the angle, speed and position of his right hand touching the strings affect the tone. This is a more serious problem. But just now I noticed that he was asking about beginner children, and the first answer was for this question.

Netizen: I now want my children to learn ethnic musical instruments. Can Teacher Wang give me some guidance on choosing musical instruments? If you recommend guzheng, can you give any other guidance?

Wang Zhongshan: My first choice is to learn guzheng. (Laughs) But if he wants to learn other things, I think there are many excellent musical instruments in China that can be learned. For example, the pipa, erhu, guqin, and xiao all have ancient charm. Anyway, training with both hands will benefit the child's overall intellectual development in all aspects. There are still benefits, and I think he can choose whichever one he chooses. Now I have learned more in the process of studying folk music, first of all guzheng, erhu, and pipa. According to his own hobbies, if he wants to learn string-pulling and friction-type things, he would choose the erhu; if he wants to learn plucked music, guzheng and pipa are both fine; and if he wants to learn blowing flutes and flutes, they are all good.

Moderator: Nowadays, when many parents let their children learn musical instruments, they are not professional learners or teachers. They are relatively blind. Most parents consider letting their children learn piano and exercise their ten fingers. Could you please introduce the characteristics of our folk music?

Wang Zhongshan: I’ll just talk about the guzheng. (Laughs) Guzheng also has ten fingers, but most people don’t understand it. The guzheng is the only instrument in folk music that can fully express floating tunes, and it is the only instrument that can emit ten tones at the same time. All the characteristics of the piano, except for its string structure, can not be achieved by 12 musical arrangements, and the guzheng can do it, except for the left and right bows. For example, the use of floating tunes, body movements, and vocal sounds are everywhere in our modern performances. The performance of guzheng has already entered the current level. In terms of guzheng learning, we first entered the field of playing with both hands when we were four or five years old. They used to have the impression that the right hand played the notes on the guzheng and the left hand composed the rhymes. This is not the case now. The advanced nature of guzheng culture, it can have some advantages of piano, and the string sequence of guzheng itself has the charm of Chinese culture. I liken it to the three good things, which are good to watch, good to listen to, and good to learn. Learning the guzheng may be the easiest among the Chinese national instrumental music, because it is relatively fixed. After tuning the strings, you only need to follow the teacher's instructions. When you see the green string, the basic key is D. When you see the green string, it is 5. You just know it like this. You can learn the strings in a short time and can play a ditty in ten minutes. Therefore, as a musical instrument, I personally advocate that everyone should know more about guzheng and learn the excellent Chinese culture. The representative should be guzheng, a classical musical instrument.

Moderator: Many parents in our forum just don’t understand, so they don’t know whether or how to choose for their children. You said that it not only exercises ten fingers, but also is easy to learn, and is closely connected with our traditional Chinese culture. I believe that we Chinese parents understand that learning guzheng has various benefits.

Netizen: What is the difference between guzheng and guqin? What are the differences between them in terms of sound production, or musical instrument playing and learning?

Wang Zhongshan: The difference between Guqin and Guzheng, first of all, in appearance, it is very simple that Guqin has 7 strings, while the general Guzheng has 21 strings, but it can also have 22 or 23 strings. , that’s optional, but generally the guzheng mainly used by various schools and performance groups uses 21 strings. I also had a 13-stringed zither that I learned when I was young, and it was made of steel wire. But generally there is no less than this number in modern times. Modern guzhengs all have more than 13 strings, but the guqin has always retained the characteristics of a 7-string qin. Therefore, the guqin is also called a 7-string qin. This is its characteristic. There is also a guzheng with a wild goose pillar, which looks like the shape of a wild goose, but the guzheng does not.

During the performance of the guzheng, due to the presence of wild goose pillars, it is possible to play various auxiliary tones and supports, and the pronunciation is relatively loud, and the body of the guzheng is relatively wide and has richer expressiveness. But this does not mean that the guqin is not rich in expressive power. The guqin is also very good. In the process of learning Chinese music, everyone must understand a little bit of guqin culture. As the most complete traditional music culture, the guqin is the most representative. But the difference between them is obvious. They have the same thing. They also appear to be placed horizontally. First of all, they look very similar. Most people don’t understand that the right hand is fidgeting here and the left hand is pushing and pulling here. But the difference is very big. When we press with our left hand, they push and slide left and right, using glissando and glissando with our left hand on the left and right sides of the piano board to differentiate and change the pitch. This is not the case with our guzheng. The guzheng basically has one string and one note. The guqin has one string and multiple tones. Of course, the guzheng can also have one string and multiple notes, but basically it is one string and one note, which is very different.

Moderator: Is it more difficult to learn Guqin?

Wang Zhongshan: To be honest, it is very difficult to learn the guqin for beginners. Unlike the guzheng, which has one string and one note, you can play a melody by putting your left hand behind your back. You don’t need your left hand. However, the guqin is more difficult because it The left hand must cooperate with the right hand, because it has few strings, and it has no fixed cardboard. It depends on each return position to determine its pitch, so it is still relatively difficult to learn the guqin.

Netizen: My daughter is now learning guzheng. A problem arises. She uses the strength of her big arms to vibrato. How can she correct it?

Wang Zhongshan: If there is a vibrato in the upper arm during the performance, I have to ask what kind of vibrato it is and what kind of vibrato she uses. It is very bad if there is a big vibrato in the upper arm. Small tremors and big tremors are also good when used in this style expression, but it would be bad if she could only tremble. There are many vibratos, driven by the forearm, with the elbow joint as the force source, and also the wrist joint, which is different. It is recommended that she practice each part separately, such as trying to use her forearms, counting, and not losing control of her vibrato. Vibrato does not mean trembling. Vibrato is a very beautiful decorative technique, not an instinctive conditioned reflex. If it is It looks like her left hand really needs to undergo systematic training, and she needs to find a good teacher, who can preferably see her problem and solve it on the spot.

Netizen: My child is currently learning piano, but once he heard a child in the next class playing guzheng in another class, and he was deeply attracted to it. And I also like the sound of guzheng very much. Can I let my children learn two instruments at the same time? May I?

Wang Zhongshan: I was very happy to hear this, because in China’s own land, Chinese people love their own musical instruments. As a musician who has been engaged in ethnic musical instruments for some time, I am very happy that finally some people who study Western music are interested in ethnic music. What I hear more is that many of my own parents are engaged in ethnic music. When I have children in the future, my children will choose Western instruments when learning music. I feel very sad. When I hear that people who play Western music like traditional musical instruments, I feel happy. I don't think pride is a comfort, why? It shows that our national music is really attractive and charming, especially in the land of China. I really hope that everyone can know more about the excellent cultural traditions of the nation. Guzheng has such an advantage. By learning it, you can master a lot of Chinese historical and cultural knowledge. In addition, through it, you can understand the development trajectory of the music of various ethnic groups in China. Through it, we can understand the national emotions of our Chinese people. Taking it to another level, through it, maybe there will be more love for our own China and for our Chinese nation. So I think that's a good thing. What if he asked if he could study concurrently? I think it's ok. When I was learning guzheng, I also learned a little piano, which is a compulsory subject in school. We can complete it well. I believe this child will do better than me.

Netizen: I am a guzheng enthusiast, and my child has now passed the guzheng level five.

When it comes to the grade examination next year, is it better to let your children take the CET-6 or CET-7? What kind of music will be tested?

Wang Zhongshan: There are too many questions. Regarding this issue, I have heard many parents of candidates asking me this question in various places. Some of our teachers even promised that they will pass the ninth level in three months. It's scary. Some people use this method to operate wildly, thinking that their teaching is superior to others, and they feel that they can do anything with guzheng in teaching or in other aspects.

But I can give advice to this parent, and through this parent, I can tell those parents and teachers who are eager to learn and hope that their children will become talents. I hope they will still learn guzheng and follow the instructions. The basic rules for the development of general things are not to make leaps forward.

Why? We should be relatively clear about guzheng learning and the formulation of these repertoires, because I personally participated in the formulation of many grading examination materials, such as the grading examination materials of the China Conservatory of Music, such as the examination materials of the Chinese National Wind Music Society, such as the Chinese Musicians Association I was involved in delivering lectures on national grade examination textbooks, or organized the work myself.

When we formulated this program, we definitely did not consider that parents or teachers were originally prepared to jump from level one to level eight. We were not mentally prepared. Our normal design is to take the CET-5 exam and the CET-6 exam. The development of anything must be a step-by-step rule. It is impossible to say that it is because he has mastered a unique skill. I have learned it in a cave for several years, and I come out and sweep it with one move. World, this is impossible, this is really misleading.

But I really understand when parents see other students, or their neighbor’s children, or their children’s classmates learning the same musical instrument. When their children are studying for Grade 8, we After learning Level 5, this feeling is understandable. He'll know when he goes further down. This learning method in the past was so ridiculous. I still suggest that he take the teacher's guidance seriously and don't force the teacher to improve your own child's progress. Some of the progress is not caused by the teacher. Some of the progress is caused by parents seeing other children learning very quickly. How can their own children learn? So slow? Therefore, teachers are forced to teach. Some of them are caused by the teachers themselves. In fact, this is extremely detrimental to the popularization of our guzheng teaching, including the popularization of music as a whole.

Moderator: We have invited many teachers who teach musical instruments in the guest chat room. They all talked about an issue. Among the various grading examinations across the country, parents are particularly selfish and do not care about their children's grading examinations. Moving forward is not good for children.

Wang Zhongshan: I can understand this. Parents want to teach the best students in the shortest time. They want their children to be outstanding. They must be higher than others and better than others. This mentality is understandable, but learning a musical instrument is really a difficult process. Parents should also be mentally prepared for this. If you increase the learning progress too quickly, it may even cause trouble for the child, and the hand shape will bring trouble to the teacher. come obstacles. Because he is struggling with certain skills, it is too difficult. If he can lift ten kilograms, he will have to lift eighty kilograms and break the child, so don't rush for success.

Netizen: Hello, Mr. Wang, I would like to ask a question. When I was learning Zizhu Diao, I couldn’t take care of my left hand but my right hand. How should I solve this problem?

Wang Zhongshan: This is the simplest sentence. I think that his study has not been done step by step, so he should practice seriously. I personally think that he must go through several steps: first read through the music, learn to read the music very seriously, first figure out the pitch of the left and right hands and its performance, and then arrange the entire fingering reasonably, and the whole The order of instructions must conform to the natural logic of the music. In addition, special attention should be paid to the practice of two hands and one hand during the learning process. If your basic skills are very poor, it is recommended that you practice the left and right hands separately and then sew them together. If you have good basic skills but have problems reading music, it is better not to keep staring at the music, just like we type on the computer. Don't keep staring at your hands, your screen or the manuscript paper next to you. Use the blind bomb method.

It depends on which situation you fall into. If it is because you have developed a bad habit of reading music, and you care about your left hand but not your right hand, and you don’t use the training method, I suggest using the blind bomb method. If your basic skills are not good, you can practice.

Netizen: I am an amateur guzheng player and have now learned the sixth level. There is a question that I am confused about. Should I wear fake nails on my left hand? My teacher said that I have to wait until level 10 to wear them. I have read the textbooks and VCDs and it says that you should wear them when you are a beginner.

Wang Zhongshan: The problem of wearing nails on the left hand is basically no longer a problem. Let me make one last statement here. This issue was discussed in the late 1980s, whether or not nails should be worn on the right hand. Later, we gradually calmed down this problem. I was the first to wear four nails on my left hand in 1986. At that time, no one in the country had done this. It really caused controversy. They thought that we should play the zither for hundreds of years without wearing nails. Even if we did, we would wear them outside. , and I wore it on both my left and right hands at that time. It should be said that it caused a lot of vibrations for the guzheng at that time. Everyone thinks that the left and right hands are the same. The first problem to solve is that if you vibrate the strings with your right hand, if you wear nails, you can’t vibrate the strings. In fact, this parent problem does not exist. When I asked, I knew he was asking whether he should wear it. The main reason why children were not allowed to wear it was because they were worried about affecting the left hand. Many people started arguing because of this. Later, this issue was not called a problem at all because we thought it would be better to solve it. , after we put on the nails on our left hand, we can still easily express all the emotions that should be expressed in traditional zheng music. Various techniques After wearing nails, we can show the skills that the traditional zither should show.

So why is it recommended that everyone wear nails on their left hand? The left hand can participate in the performance of harmony and auxiliary tunes just like the right hand, and can effectively unify the right hand's timbre, including a scraping, whose intensity and timbre are basically consistent and very powerful. It’s very difficult to express Zheng music if you don’t wear nails. Nowadays, the left hand in Zheng music has a strong walking distance. Sometimes, like in the works I wrote, the left hand has biting fingers and ring fingers on the left hand. Other teachers are gradually using this in their works. Tip, it's difficult to do this manicure if you don't wear it. Wear your nails from the day of school and make it a habit. In ancient times, people played the guzheng without wearing nails. They used their own natural nails to participate in the performance, so the performance was very subtle and beautiful. But now the playing skills are more complicated. Therefore, in the multilateral skill structure, wearing nails can complete many difficult skills without losing the charm of the left hand. In this case, we recommend wearing nails for basic training. But if the child is just learning to play and not learning one or two pieces of music, it doesn’t matter if he wears it or not, it will not affect his guzheng learning.

Netizen: I like guzheng and know a little bit. I have a question that I would like to ask you to enlighten me on. My hands are very small. When I was learning the song "High Mountains and Flowing Waters", I couldn't get over the first song. What can I do?

Wang Zhongshan: He can see that my hands are very small. This depends on how effectively you use the width of your own palms. Don’t just be longer than your fingers, and your palms. You can rely on your wrists. Move to bring out the entire effective playing part of the palm, and use the width of the palm plus the length of the fingers to construct a note. If all you wanted to do when playing the piano was to compare whose fingers were longer, I would have given up on the guzheng long ago. I think that for those who have smaller opponents or those with shorter hands, let me tell you that this will not be the main obstacle to the guzheng. Maybe when you are playing, you may not be able to do it temporarily due to insufficient practice or inappropriate methods. , but definitely not because you have short hands.

Netizen: What are the current national regulations on the playing level of guzheng? Where can amateurs go to obtain relevant certificates?

Wang Zhongshan: The country does not have very strict regulations on this. The only way to test his major is to pass the entrance examination to art academies and compete in competitions sponsored by the National Ministry of Culture or the Chinese Musicians Association. Test your level, attend a music school to see if you are up to standard, or provide relevant certificates.

Amateurs mainly pass the grading exams, such as the Chinese Musicians Association’s grading exams, the Central Conservatory of Music’s grading exams, and the China Conservatory of Music’s grading exams, all of which verify your guzheng amateur level.

Moderator: There is no age limit for this kind of examination?

Wang Zhongshan: No, because I am an amateur and my main responsibility is to promote Chinese culture.

Netizen: How old is the best age for children to learn guzheng?

Wang Zhongshan: If you can learn as young as five years old, it is not particularly strict. For example, at this age that some people talk about, I know many famous teachers, many of whom are everyone, and their studies only started after they entered university.

Moderator: Are you an adult?

Wang Zhongshan: Yes, they first learned piano, and later switched to guzheng. Through hard work, they became nationally famous guzheng masters. Including our current guzheng masters, it still does not affect the good results he has achieved in guzheng.

Netizen: Teacher Wang, can you tell us about some of the younger children you are currently teaching and how they are learning the zither?

Wang Zhongshan: I don’t teach too many children because I am a teacher at a music conservatory. I rarely teach very young children. The youngest I have ever taught was a 5-year-old child. I was very impressed. Why do I remember this? He was not very focused. I was still in college at the time. He would play hide-and-seek with me during class. When class started, he would first ask the teacher to look for me and see where I was. I would pick him out every time in the aisle or the trash can. , this little kid is very interesting. Therefore, my whole experience is that 5-year-old children are very naughty and difficult to train. But I have another deep impression. This child learns very quickly. Because he is young, he is full of novel feelings about everything. For example, if you ask his fingers and music, he can quickly learn. I learned from you and had a strong ability to imitate. I was very interested in music at that time. Therefore, I thought that teaching a 5-year-old child, because I had no experience at the time, I did not teach this child, and I left it to other teachers. Now that I look back I should have a little patience with kids this age. Later, my own niece learned guzheng when she was 3 years old. She already played several pieces when she was 5 years old. When she was 5 or 6 years old, she participated in national competitions and won awards.

Netizen: I plan to let my child take the entrance examination this year. What kind of difficult music is suitable for my child to play?

Wang Zhongshan: Currently, there are no strict regulations on repertoire in the Central Conservatory of Music and China Conservatory of Music examinations. They only stipulate the number of repertoires you have, but not what works you must play. But according to my observation, these students who want to be admitted to the Middle School Affiliated to the Central Conservatory of Music must strictly have a level 9 or above, very professional training, a level 9 or above, and the works should preferably be modern and newly created works, such as those that were popular in the early years. Songs like "Happiness Canal Comes to My Village" seem to be no longer suitable for taking exams now. Now, for example, this type of work, Fantasia, is often used in the exam process. It is recommended that parents work hard in this area. In addition, traditional Zheng music should not be neglected. It is best to choose an excellent traditional representative work to take the exam.

Netizen: I first learned guzheng because I found a CD of popular guzheng music in a video store. I wanted to learn guzheng mainly because I wanted to play such music to please myself. Does this also require systematic study?

Wang Zhongshan: After systematic study, it will be more skillful and simpler to talk about such works. If you don’t go through systematic study, you can just learn to play, because that kind of works are relatively easy to get started. For example, "Swordsman", its tonal arrangement is exactly the same as the guzheng tuning. As long as you know the simple musical notation, you can get started. If you just want to play this kind of works well, you really don’t have to put in too much effort, but if you ask a famous expert for guidance, you can play this kind of works better.

Netizen: Archaeological guzheng, when learning guzheng, do you also need to learn music theory knowledge like other music 6?

Wang Zhongshan: Yes, this is a professional course and must be tested. Depending on Singing ear training and basic music theory must be tested during the exam. If you want to go to college, you need to have harmony.

Moderator: Although the harmonies seem to favor Western instruments, the same status applies to folk music.

Wang Zhongshan: I studied at the Conservatory of Music, and the basic music theory does not distinguish between Western and Chinese. The guzheng itself has the concept of harmony, such as its fourth and fifth degree harmony, pure octave, in the guzheng performance appears often.

Moderator: For beginners, do they need to learn these systematic music theory knowledge?

Wang Zhongshan: For beginners, if your family has a certain background, as long as your parents love to sing, the child is not tone-deaf, so there is no need to specialize in learning. But if it is better to learn, and you have the energy and time to put in the effort, you will be more professional. I believe that learning music theory and sight-singing and ear training will be more helpful for you to learn an instrument.

Netizen: Teacher Wang, today seems to be my first time to have in-depth knowledge of guzheng. I would like to ask, how much does it cost to buy a guzheng?

Wang Zhongshan: There are many price ranges for guzheng. As far as I know, a junior guzheng can be bought for a few hundred yuan. I heard that, but I don’t use this guzheng. It can be bought for seven or eight hundred yuan. Buy the kind of kite that is very popular. The commonly used guzheng usually costs 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, but the guzheng used by our conservatory majors generally costs more than 6,000 yuan.

Netizen: When buying a kite, should we consider some wood-related factors such as the south and the north?

Wang Zhongshan: Nowadays, all musical instrument manufacturers are improving their own instruments. In the past, kites from the south moved to the north. Due to the climate in the north, the air in Beijing was very dry and easy to crack. Now in the past ten years, the South has made some improvements in musical instruments based on climate characteristics. This problem has rarely arisen, and there is no longer such a strict distinction between the South and the North. But relatively speaking, you just need to pay a little more attention to the maintenance of your instrument. For example, when winter comes, stay away from air conditioning and heating, and put some water under your instrument to make it slightly moist. The kite should be kept away from exposure to the sun, and should be placed in a room with a relatively humid temperature so that it does not get too dry.