Editing Guzheng (section)

==In popular culture==
{{stack|[[File:YEAR OF THE MONKEY IN DUBLIN (CHINESE POETRY ON THE DART TO CELEBRATE THE NEW CHINESE YEAR)-111441 (24752589386).jpg|thumb|Guzheng in a Chinese New Year celebration (2016) in Dublin, Ireland]]}}
In the television drama series ''[[My Fair Princess]]'', actress [[Ruby Lin]]'s character Xia Ziwei plays the ''guzheng'' (although she mimes to the music). It is featured in the 1980 pop hit, "[[Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime]]", by [[the Korgis]].{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

{{stack|[[File:Even more Guzhengs (古箏) cropped.jpg|thumb|Chinese guzheng in a shop]]}}
In the film ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'', the assassins known as The Harpists play a long zither to generate bladed and percussive attacks. The instrument has raised bridges like a guzheng but its body is shaped like a guqin. The sound is that of a guqin.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thecriticalreel.com/kung-fu-hustle-2004/|title=Kung Fu Hustle (2004)|date= 24 November 2013 |access-date=2018-12-07 }}</ref>

The ''guzheng'' has been used in rock music by Chinese performer [[Wang Yong (musician)|Wang Yong]] of [[Cui Jian]], the English musician [[Jakko Jakszyk]] (on the 2011 Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins album ''[[A Scarcity of Miracles]]''), J.B. Brubaker of [[August Burns Red]] on "Creative Captivity" from the 2013 album ''[[Rescue & Restore]]'', and the [[virtual band]] [[Gorillaz]] on "Hong Kong" (from the 2005 ''[[Help! A Day in the Life]]'' compilation). Jerusalem-based multi-instrumentalist [[Bradley Fish]] used the ''guzheng'' with a rock-influenced style and electronic effects on his 1996 collaboration "The Aquarium Conspiracy" (with [[Sugarcubes]]/[[Björk]] drummer [[Sigtryggur Baldursson]]), and is the most widely recorded artist of [[Loop (music)|loops]] for the instrument. Mandopop singer-songwriter and music producer [[Lay Zhang]] is known for using traditional Chinese instruments such as the guzheng.{{citation needed|date=April 2022}}

In the first book of the [[Remembrance of Earth's Past]] trilogy by [[Liu Cixin]], a military operation which sets up thin strands of nanomaterial across the [[Panama Canal]] in order to slice the incoming ship Judgment Day into slivers as it travels through the canal is codenamed Guzheng, referencing the resemblance of the strands of nanomaterial across the canal to the strings of the instrument.