Before the execution, as traditional sources further relate, Ji remained calm and perfectly composed; as the final hour approached, he asked for a qin (string instrument, commonly translated as zither or lute) and gave a final performance, lamenting only that the tune he played would now die with him (e.g., see Jin shu 49).
One, located in the Upper Hall of the court, consisted of a chime of 12 stones, a series of 12 bells, a zither of 25 strings (Chinese se), a zither with 7 strings (Chinese qin), flutes, panpipes, a scraper in the shape of a tiger, a double-headed drum, a mouth organ, and a globular whistle.
A 7th-century Korean musician, Wang San-Ak, is credited with the invention of the kŏmungo, a zither with six strings that was apparently an adaptation of the Chinese seven-string zither qin.
Also on the disc is the somber "Auspicious-Clouds Music," in which Ms. Wu imitates the sound and style of a qin (pronounced chin), an ancient Chinese seven-string zither.
The aforementioned jiè was being used as a general classifier before the Qin Dynasty (221 BCE); it was originally a noun referring to individual items out of a string of connected shells or clothes, and eventually came to be used as a classifier for "individual" objects (as opposed to pairs or groups of objects) before becoming a general classifier.
Qin, Wade-Giles romanization ch'in also called guqin (Chinese "ancient zither") or qixianqin (Chinese "seven-stringed zither"), fretless Chinese board zither with seven strings.
The qin is usually lacquered and is inlaid with 13 dots (hui) of ivory, jade, or mother-of-pearl that indicate pitch positions, primarily on the upper melodic string.
"Qin is the vector of this culture.
Qin Dayuan asked: "Who voted against him?
He was called Qin Shi Huangdi.
Then I met the Qin family.
