How to say guzheng in English?

The English for Guzheng is China Guzheng.

Guzheng, also known as Han Zheng, Qin Zheng, Zheng Yao and Lu 'an Zheng, is a traditional musical instrument in China, belonging to plucked instruments. It is one of the important national musical instruments unique to China. It has beautiful timbre, wide range, rich playing skills and strong expressive force, so it is deeply loved by the broad masses of the people.

Now there are also small guzheng, portable guzheng, mini guzheng, semi-guzheng, new guzheng and twelve-tone guzheng. Guzheng, an ancient national musical instrument, was born and grew up in this fertile yellow land with the long culture of China. It is a plucked musical instrument, and its structure consists of a panel, a wild goose column (also called Zheng code in some areas), strings, a front Yueshan, a string nail, a tuning box, a piano foot, a back Yueshan, a side plate, a sound hole, a bottom plate and a string hole.

The unified specifications of guzheng are:1.63m, 2 1 string. Most of the panels of guzheng are made of paulownia in Lankao, Henan Province, and the frame is white pine. There are precious wood such as mahogany, old rosewood (Burmese rosewood), golden nanmu and rosewood on the side plates around the guzheng. The sound quality of the guzheng depends on the panel and strings, and the surrounding materials slightly improve the sound quality of the guzheng, especially the old mahogany, rosewood and golden nanmu.

From early to modern times, there are 12, 13, 18, 23, 25 strings and so on. There are many ways to set strings in different areas. New types of Zheng include "butterfly Zheng" and "tuning Zheng".

In the early days, traditional Zheng music was divided into two major schools: South Zheng (Chaozhou Zheng) and North Zheng (Henan Zheng and Shandong Zheng). The entry "China Music" in Singlov's Music Dictionary published in Britain reads: "China Zheng is represented by Henan and Shandong Zheng schools in the north and Chaozhou Zheng schools in the south."

With the development of the times, in the 20th century, several other schools, namely "Chao, Lu, Henan and Zhejiang", were derived from the northern and southern Zheng, and their differences with those of their contemporaries were very small, almost with their own merits. Now it is generally divided into nine schools, as Cao Zheng said, "Nine schools are popular in China", and the Zheng music and playing methods of each school have their own characteristics.