With the melodious zither music flowing slowly along the banks of the Huaihe River, Huainan City ushered in a major event in its cultural life - the first Guzheng Art Festival.

On the afternoon of June 29, the "Huaihe River Bank" 2024 Huainan City's first Guzheng Art Festival was held in Huainan Welcome Hotel. Contestants from children, children, teenagers, professionals, adults and other groups shared the stage. The competition also invited well-known domestic guzheng players and educators to serve as judges of the competition.

Guzheng, the instrument for playing the plucked string, is popular throughout the country as an ancient ethnic instrument of the Han people, and is often used as an accompaniment for solo, ensemble, instrumental ensemble, song and dance, opera, and folk art. Also known as "the King of music" and "Oriental piano", it is one of China's unique and important national instruments.

"The first Guzheng Art Festival aims to create a stage that can display the charm of guzheng and inherit the essence of guzheng culture in an all-round way, explore more young guzheng talents while carrying forward the traditional music culture of the Chinese nation, and promote the development of guzheng art education in our city." City Guzheng association relevant person in charge said.