Henan Museum concert calls for wider preservation of ancient music

Henan Museum in Zhengzhou, Henan province, hosted a guqin concert Saturday evening that showcased decades of research into ancient Chinese music and called for broader academic collaboration to preserve endangered classical traditions.

The concert was held as part of Henan's 2025 Intangible Cultural Heritage Special Fund and aimed to boost the preservation of ancient musical artifacts and reconstruct classical melodies. A public guqin training workshop preceded the performance.

"Our goal is to integrate more specialized groups to enhance academic research into stage performance, allowing us to carry forward ancient music more systematically," said Lin Xiaoping, director of the Department of Ancient Music Inheritance and Conservation at Henan Museum.

Luo Suli, Henan's provincial-level representative inheritor of guqin art, called the seven-stringed instrument an irreplaceable vessel of traditional Chinese humanistic thought.