Since ancient times, the masters of pipa and guzheng are mostly men, and it is also boys who can develop better in the later stage of learning national plucked instruments. Playing martial arts is an absolute advantage in strength and momentum. This is why all the performers who can be called masters are male. I don't know when I started to have pipa and guzheng, which is the idea that girls learn. It may be influenced by some ancient costume TV movies, and some people have been publishing this fallacy for a long time, but the people who publish this fallacy are those who can't play these instruments, and even can be said to be completely puzzled by Chinese musical instruments.
For example, the old man who died in 2005, and his personal disciple, Liu Dehai, the first pipa master in China. It is already the realm of the integration of human and piano. Visit many countries and let western audiences know that they like pipa. . Many western audiences were even more amazed when they heard his performance "House of Flying Daggers". Just four strings, as loud as the whole symphony orchestra.
There are also Wang Zhongshan, a master of guzheng, and many schools of guzheng, all of whom are men.
Without their efforts, just imagine what stage China's national instrumental music is still in, and now the folk music is slowly thriving. More and more new works are born, and our national instrumental music needs fresh blood and vitality. With the Olympic Games, the world has a deeper understanding of China culture, and more foreigners begin to like and learn Chinese musical instruments. China people generally admire western musical instruments, but they don't know that China's national musical instruments are very popular abroad. The cultural heritage left by our ancestors is spurned by most people in China. South Korea took our musical instrument Sheng to apply for the World Heritage, but did China people ever reflect on it besides lambasting it?
I hope people who don't understand Chinese musical instruments can understand before they speak. I really don't want anyone to say anything in front of foreigners in the future: pipa and guzheng are words that girls learn.
Finally, I hope more people can learn folk music, and parents who want their children to learn musical instruments can also consider folk music more. Let China's musical instruments go global, and let more China culture go global.