Guzheng plays popular songs, and guzheng is not ancient?

对于古筝要不要跟着流行乐走这个问题也不是第一次与人探讨，现在用古筝所弹奏的流行歌曲在网上很火，在一定程度上带来了一点古筝热，就有人因此去学习古筝。

  而古筝作为传统的民族乐器，当然一定要固守自己的特点，最突出的就是它的韵味，这些在古曲上也有很大的体现，所以古筝对自己的传统的坚守是必须的。

  但时代是发展着的，我们的音乐，也包括古筝音乐也该随着时代去发展。如果仅仅停留在我们现有的曲目上面则会让人觉得古筝在某些方面显得有些过时。我们不否认现代的创作曲目有很多，很多也很好听，但可能它们对于普通人来说太阳春白雪、太高雅了，不是所有人，或者说大部分人是无法理解这种意境的。就拿幻想曲来说，我身边很多人听完的感觉是恐怖，就连一些学古筝的人也是这种感受。而且现在创作的古筝曲目在技巧等各方面都是具有很大难度的，一般的古筝学习者是不具有弹这样曲子的能力的。而一些级别较低的经典曲目则会随着时代的发展与这个时代越隔越远，这样一来，如果没有些流行音乐的加入，可能会使很多人失去学古筝的兴趣，因为她们很难理解原来那些曲子创作的背景，尤其是古曲。           

For some children of a few years and teenagers, how much ability they have to understand the meaning of these songs. Then, their grasp of the strength and weakness of the song (can not be said to be emotional) almost comes from imitation, imitation of the teacher, imitation of demonstration. Not all teachers can inspire students little by little in the emotional aspect of the song, which cannot be said to be irresponsible to teachers, because the child's ability to understand is not enough, the parents' quick success and quick profit, and this impetuous society has created. Playing a song in the case of not understanding the artistic conception but still deliberately imitating it is too easy for many children to lose interest in the guzheng. Without some popular songs they were familiar with as a tune, they would have given up before they could play those songs. Therefore, playing some popular songs with guzheng and adding some popular elements is necessary to maintain its vitality. Today's masters can contribute to guzheng music in the present, but what about the future? These children are the heirs of the longer-term development of the guzheng, so they have lost interest, what else to talk about development?

It is true that the people who learn guzheng are not only children, there are many adults, and their ability to understand can understand the deep meaning of the song, but I think most people can't figure out the charm of a portamento for a long time when playing a piece, and the purpose of many people learning the piano is to play some of their favorite songs, if the guzheng is not involved in this regard, then we will lose a group of guzheng lovers.

In summary, the development of guzheng in popular songs is for the guzheng to be better popularized. Without these thousands of enthusiasts as the foundation, the guzheng has no really strong foundation. If the guzheng has not been developing in the direction of the public, in the future, only a few elderly people who are over the age of ancient can play, and it cannot be passed on, so why should we talk about the development and strength of the guzheng?

Joining popular music with the development of the times does not mean that the guzheng loses its own charm, tradition and modernity are not a completely uncoordinated contradiction, the two can coexist friendly when a certain balance is reached. For traditional tracks, it is not possible to throw away, but it is not completely undesirable for popular music, and I personally think that a two-pronged approach will probably work better. It does not lose the national characteristics of the guzheng itself, and can meet the needs of the development of the times.

Everyone has a different purpose for learning the piano, we don't need to force others to learn the guzheng, we must play those traditional repertoire, radish cabbage has its own love, just like it.

As a kind of traditional culture, the development of guzheng should also be developed in inheritance and eclectic. There is only one dead end.