The traditional guzheng skills of the Zhao family were established by Zhao Yuzhai and Zhao Dengshan, and originated from the Shandong guzheng school. The direct descendants of the Zhao family are the main inheritors of the guzheng skills that combine tradition and innovation. It is not only the inheritance of the traditional techniques of the Shandong guzheng school, but also integrates new regional characteristics in the new era, forming a unique and complete guzheng art style. The Shandong guzheng school is one of the most widely spread and influential schools in the country, mainly spread in the Heze area in southwest Shandong. Zhang Niansheng, the main inheritor of the modern Shandong guzheng school, brought the skills of the Shandong guzheng school to Jilin Province in the early 20th century, and combined the Shandong guzheng with the folk art of Northeast China for the first time. In the subsequent inheritance, Zhang Niansheng accepted disciples such as Fan Xiyu and Zhang Yingyi, and then passed on the skills to Zhao Yuzhai, and then to Zhao Dengshan, until Zhao Dengshan was transferred to the Jilin Provincial Song and Dance Troupe in 1954, officially creating a new situation for the spread of guzheng performance skills in Jilin Province. The traditional guzheng skills of the Zhao family are mainly spread in Jilin Province, and there are a small number of inheritors in Liaoning Province, Shandong Province, Jiangsu Province, Taiwan Province, Japan, South Korea and other places. The traditional guzheng skills of the Zhao family have high academic value, cultural exchange value and aesthetic value. Through the efforts of the successive inheritors of the traditional guzheng skills of the Zhao family, a large number of ancient gongche guzheng scores have been translated and sorted into modern simple scores. While rescuing the ancient scores that are on the verge of being lost, it is also more conducive to spreading them to the world and future generations. While inheriting the traditional guzheng performance skills of Shandong, the traditional guzheng skills of the Zhao family have created a series of unique performance techniques, and take "harmony of sound and rhyme", "supporting sound with rhyme", and "supplementing sound with rhyme" as the artistic purpose, and take the grasp and use of "rhyme" as the artistic pursuit, restore the unique charm of traditional guzheng music, and develop into a unique guzheng art expression form. The traditional guzheng skills of the Zhao family reflect the aesthetic concept of conveying spirit through form and emphasizing charm, expressing the heart through objects and emphasizing the beauty of personality and artistic conception, and seeking enlightenment through learning and emphasizing wonderful enlightenment, and through wonderful enlightenment, it reaches the aesthetic realm of "using one's own heart to understand the spirit of things, so as to reach the way of heaven and earth".