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Qin music tends to linger on certain notes, with an emphasis on silence and timbre, giving it a meditative quality. Being an instrument historically associated with literati, its aim is Confucian (in trying to cultivate one's mind) as well as Daoist (in s

The seven-stringed guqin "has been part of Chinese culture since the time of Confucius…[the piece] is a meditation on the human sense of affinity with the universe