[Explanation] Guqin, also known as Yaoqin, Yuqin and Qixian Qin, is a traditional Chinese plucked stringed instrument with a history of more than 3,000 years.

In 2003, it was listed as a world cultural heritage by the United Nations.

The art of making guqin is elegantly referred to as "Ping Qin".

　　On September 2nd, in Jiangyuan Town, Jianyang City, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the "post-85" boy Zhang Yong was making guqin in his Qin workshop.

Zhang Yong's family has been making guqin since his grandfather generation. His father Zhang Yiquan and his second uncle Zhang Yiqiu are all craftsmen engaged in musical instrument making.

In 2003, under the guidance of his father's concept of "the son inherits his father's business", 15-year-old Zhang Yong embarked on the exploration of the world of guqin.

He was born in 1987, although he is not very young, but he has been playing piano for 17 years.

　　[Contemporaneous] (Zhang Yong, the piano master) At that time, it was because they were all working at the piano. I had no choice but a passive choice. I had no choice at all, so I was dragged by my father to learn the piano.

When I went there, I started to learn to appreciate the guqin, because I learned to play the guqin, and then I learned how to make the guqin at the same time, and then I scraped and painted the guqin at the same time.

　　[Explanation] Zhang Yong introduced that a piece of guqin, from raw wood, green body to finished product, requires nearly 200 processes.

Except for tools such as chainsaws, all processes are handmade, and the most technical link is tuning.

　　[Concurrent] (Zhang Yong, the piano master) It should be about one and a half years from the beginning of the selection of wood to the final production of a piano.

The most difficult process is tuning, because the others are in the crafting stage, and the guqin is an instrument that needs to be played after all, and then there is the guqin. Why can it be passed on for so long? It’s because its timbre is unique. The timbre characteristic, the timbre characteristic derives from the structure of its entire inner box, digging the resonance box inside, this (yes) a very long process, it is also very refined.

　　[Explanation] The production cycle of guqin is long, boring and cumbersome. Craftsmen must have enough patience and will to produce a good piano with "strong bass, mellow midrange, and clear treble".

With more than 10 years of experience in making pianos, Zhang Yong has his own views on Chuqin.

　　[Concurrent] (Zhang Yong, the piano master) From the perspective of the piano, a qualified piano master will definitely need to play the piano, then the piano, and then the woodworker, lacquerworker, and then the entire construction of the music system will know. Then it includes people's understanding of traditional culture, which is indispensable. If there is no traditional culture and the technique of playing the piano as a support, the production of that piano would be too single and unrepresentative.

　　[Explanation] It is precisely this attitude of excellence that makes Zhang Yong's guqin better and better. His works are spread across all major piano shops in Sichuan and become a representative of the guqin production industry. People who ask him for piano come from all over the country.

　　Zhang Yong revealed that in recent years, the guqin has become more and more popular. In order to better popularize the guqin, a few years ago he invited a lot of old woodworkers to the workshop, and he could make more than 1,000 pieces of guqin a year and earn A lot of money.

But looking back at the high-yield guqin, Zhang Yong felt strange.

Since then, and to this day, Zhang Yong is determined to make the piano by himself.

Zhang Yong said that as he pounded the piano more and played more, he could feel the energy of the ancients' efforts.

　　[Simultaneous] (Zhang Yong, the piano master) After learning to play the piano, I learned more about the guqin, so now I will do it by myself, do it slowly, and make sure to make something of my own.

The quality of the piano must be a very good instrument in terms of timbre. For example, 200 years later, if someone still holds my piano in their hands, he will know my experience of learning the piano.

Now I want to record all these things in my heart by playing the piano myself.

When someone can discover this violin in the future, the history will be recorded, so I choose to be an inheritor to inherit these things.

　　He Meikun reports from Chengdu

Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]