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Here are some further related articles and comments:  		 雜說
The Four Arts of the Chinese Scholar 1 : qin, qi, shu, and hua 2

  1. A brief introduction to the silk-string zither
  2. Or is it a "lute"?
  3. Website glossary
  4. The guqin work of 1956 led by Zha Fuxi,
    plus his Index of Existing Melodies, part of his Guide
  5. An outline of Cecilia Lindquist, Qin (2006)
  6. Curt Sachs on qin
  7. John Blofeld hears a qin in 1930s Beijing
  8. Comments on a 1912 Recording
  9. Several further accounts can be found at the Guqin and its Music,
    on the website of Christopher Evans.
  10. Gagaku; in particular Qin and Togaku
 

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. In the 1990s I bought this small screen (21 cm high including the frame) in Hanoi, Vietnam. I found it interesting to imagine that it might have been manufactured in Vietnam. However, several years later at a curio shop in Shanghai I found an identical set of four tiles, though there they were in a hangable frame. (Return)

2. The 四藝 four arts, or skills, are (right to left on this ceramic screen, height 7") : qin, chess [go], calligraphy [books] and painting)
As well as in folk art, this motif is also in classical painting. (Return)

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