Dive into the music and history of the qin at ACM's revamped Scholars Gallery
Elegant Sounds: Music, Craft, And The Literati positions the guqin (Chinese zither) at the centre of Chinese learning. PHOTO: ASIAN CIVILISATIONS MUSEUM
SINGAPORE – The mark of a scholar in ancient China was his mastery of the four arts: qin (zither), qi (chess), shu (calligraphy) and hua (painting).
Apt, then, that the latest iteration of the Asian Civilisations Museum's (ACM) Scholars Gallery – a small section tucked towards the back of the museum's second floor – is zeroing in on the first of the distinguished quartet.
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