The Tradition And The Innovation Of The Guzheng Art

The art of guzheng has a long history, and it has formed such significant schools as Shandong, Henan, Chaozhou, Zhejiang and Shanxi in the process of its development. Those schools have also formed its unique playing skills and art style. Since 1920s, with the continuous improvement and development of those schools' performing skills and art styles, some drawbacks of traditional playing method of our country's guzheng has turned up at the same time. After 1980s, a batch of rising stars appeared in the circle of guzheng, and they did some new tries while compensating the shortcomings of traditional guzheng's art. Their creations and performances are with strong odor of the times. The art of guzheng not only has creations in playing skills, but also does the newer tries in the arrangement of character of tunes, the music structure and the melody of the vocabulary. In order to solve the problem of the traditional guzheng 's difficulty in inflexion, the experts developed new-type inflexion zither on the base of the traditional guzheng. The art of guzheng in our country has received a totally new age of development. Those new ideas are developed on the basis of traditional art of guzheng and further developed traditional art of guzheng at the same time, which makes guzheng have richer music expression forces and stronger art influences, and also promotes guzheng's art of our country to be a new step. We must combine tradition with creation organically in order to develop guzheng's art so as to last the art vitality of guzheng.The tradition and creation of guzheng have not only good side but also bad side.We must know the situation ,in that case ,we can get some enlightenment from it.