Traditional musical instrument The qin, also called guqin (ancient qin), is a seven-stringed long zither without frets or bridge. The Western term ‘lute’, which has been applied by Robert H. van Gulik, is misleading because lute and zither...

Qin can refer to: if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } state Qin (state), a state of China during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. Qin Dynasty, which followed Qin's unification of China Former Qin,...