Yang's new book, Qinren, introduces his experience with the instrument. Probably because of the freedom allowed in playing old pieces of music, guqin players don't often create new ones, but prefer practicing the older compositions in different styles, Yang Lan suggests. Luckily, after moving to Hangzhou, Zhejiang, in 2011, he was introduced to modern guqin master Cheng Gongliang, who corrected …
Guqin player and craftsman Yang Lan plays the instrument during a gathering with friends in Nantong, Jiangsu province, in 2021. After taking a risk by dropping out of school at the age of 16, two decades later, Yang Lan has crafted a comfortable life by playing, teaching and making guqin, Wang Ru reports. When Yang Lan first became attracted to …
