The basic skills of fingers are the skills of finger touching strings. Finger touching the strings is actually not complicated: use the power of the palm joint to lift the fingers, and when the hand shape is stable, the first joint of the fingers hits the strings, and that's it. This lift-and-slap motion, called "swipe," and said "is an innate ability of man" that "has been completely instinctive for a long time."

The so-called basic skills of the fingers are to be trained on the basis of the instinctive ability of the fingers and raised to the height of technical skills to meet the needs of playing. This can be understood from 4 aspects:

1. Independence and flexibility. Each finger must have the ability to touch the strings independently. Independence does not mean that one finger is lifted and the other fingers are absolutely not allowed to move. Suffice it to say, any finger can do the string action when needed. Flexibility can only be developed on the basis of independence. Independent and flexible fingers, will be able to play a variety of speed notes.
2. strength. That is to say, the action of playing the strings must be able to achieve a certain strength, as well as the control of the strength. Under the condition that other conditions remain unchanged, the faster the pop-up action, the greater the force. And vice versa.
3. evenly. The ten fingers are born with different abilities, and there are still differences after training. But the goal of the basic skills requirement is to have the same ability in all ten fingers. It can also be considered that what one finger can do, the other fingers should also be able to do.
4. Support for taking huge weights. When playing all kinds of strong notes, it depends on the rock-solid support of the fingers.

The finger abilities required by the above basic finger skills are actually two types. One is the activity of the finger itself, and the other is the unshakable stability of the finger. Both of these abilities are inherent to the fingers, but they are only in a rudimentary or latent state.

And the students practice day after day, it is to upgrade the elementary to the advanced, and turn the potential into reality. In this sense, guzheng technology is not so unattainable, it just depends on whether it can be done.