琴,亦称古琴、瑶琴等,是中国最为古老的乐器之一,也是最为重要的乐器。古人以琴棋书画为四雅,而琴居首;又常以琴剑为伴,有“琴心剑胆”之说。关于琴的记载,最早见于《诗经》的首篇《关雎》,其中有“窈窕淑女,琴瑟友之”之句,而琴的出现远在《诗经》成书之前。相传伏羲氏伐桐创瑶琴,起初为五弦,分别代表金、木、水、火、土五行,后来周文王、武王各加一弦,形成了 Qin, also known as Guqin, Yaoqin, etc., is one of the oldest instruments in China and the most important instrument. The ancients to poetry and painting for the four elegant, but the first Qin; often with piano sword companion, there is About the record of the piano, the earliest found in the “Book of Songs,” the first “Kuan”, which has “Lady and Queen of the piano,” the sentence, and the piano appears far in the “Book of Songs” before the book. According to legend, Fu Tong Xi Tong Tong Chuang Yaoqin, initially five strings, representing the gold, wood, water, fire, soil five lines, and later King Wen, King Wu each add a chord, formed