The closing concert of “Resonating Melodies” Guqin Culture Exhibition was held at Liaoning Provincial Museum on August 22, the Qixi Festival. The ancient and beautiful melody of Guqin accompanied the audience to enjoy this festival.

After the opening of the concert, the ensemble Four Beautiful Scenes by a few Guqin players soon offered the audience a tranquil and cosy ambience. Well-known Guqin masters including Li Pengpeng, Pei Jinbao, and Zhu Mohan were invited to the concert to play six classic Guqin pieces. Aside from Four Beautiful Scenes, the traditional Guqin pieces Adios at Yangguan, Wild Geese on the Sandbank, Three Stanzas of Plum Blossoms, Night Mooring at the Autumn River, Fishing Song, High Mountain and Flowing Water, Thinking of an Old Friend were also played for the audience.

These Guqin pieces, with fair-sounding melody and elegant ambience, won a big round of applause from the audience.

In order to create a better atmosphere, Liaoning Provincial Museum had handed out 1000 concert tickets for free via official platform, which soon sold out in just one minute.

Guqin master Li Pengpeng played Fishing Song on the concert. When the performance ended, the hall rang with thunderous applause. Li Pengpeng said that though Guqin was Chinese traditional musical instrument, it also enjoyed much popularity abroad due to the natural and unrestrained ambience it created.

Although Li Pengpeng had heard a lot about the “Jiu Xiao Huan Pei” Guqin at Liaoning Provincial Museum before, this was the first time she saw it in person. “It is wonderful that Liaoning Provincial Museum could collect a Guqin like this and even displayed it at this exhibition. It is a precious gift not only for Liaoning people, but audience from around the country,” Li Pengpeng said.

A piece of national treasure “Jiu Xiao Huan Pei” Guqin, made in the Tang Dynasty, with more than 1200 years of history, was displayed on the “Resonating Melodies” Guqin Culture Exhibition held by Liaoning Provincial Museum. Only four Guqins of this kind, which were made in the Tang Dynasty, exist today. According to the statistics from Liaoning Provincial Museum, more than 600 thousand person-times visited the museum to see the Guqin during the exhibition.