The musician Cheng Yu has been active in educating people and performing Chinese music in the United Kingdom. She takes a guqin and pipa to a special gathering that she started in London 20 years ago at regular intervals. "In 2003, I established the London Youlan Qin Society, which provides a forum for guqin and Chinese music lovers to perform, and discuss music," Cheng said. The guqin is one of China's oldest instruments. In 2003, UNESCO proclaimed China's ancient guqin music a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.