The yazheng (simplified: 牙筝; traditional: 牙箏; pinyin: yázhēng; also spelled ya zheng or ya cheng) is a Chinese string instrument. It is a long zither similar to the guzheng but bowed by scraping with a sorghum stem dusted with resin, a bamboo stick, or a piece of forsythia wood. The instrument was popular in the Tang Dynasty, but is today little used except in the folk music of some parts of northern China, where it is called yaqin.

The Korean ajaeng is derived from the yazheng.

External links

• Yazheng page (Chinese)
• Ya qin page

See also

• Ajaeng
• Traditional Chinese musical instruments

Bowed instruments | String instruments | Heterochord half-tube zithers | Chinese musical instruments