Understanding of the top ten Chinese national musical instruments.

  China is a country of rites and music, music civilization has a long history. Chinese traditional musical instruments, such as erhu and pipa, are popular among the masses. At the same time, people love the beautiful melodies played by classical instruments and the sincere expressions of emotion in folk music. Today, this collation of the more representative of China's top ten national musical instruments, let's take a look at what the Ba

PIPA

  pipa is known as the"King of plucked string instruments," belonging to the plucked string instruments. The early instruments known as Pipa appeared around the Qin dynasty in China. The word jue in the word pipa means"Two jade meet and make a sweet clatter", a musical instrument that sounds by touching the strings. The pipa is played with the left hand holding the strings and the right hand with five fingers. It is an important national instrument for solo, accompaniment, Ensemble and ensemble.

Erhu

erhu began in the Tang dynasty, "Haegeum," as he is known, has been around for more than a thousand years. "Huqin system such as fire, volume gu dragon head, two-string with the bow of the bow of the string to horse tail" further elaborated the huqin production principle. In modern times, huqin was renamed Erhu. The erhu is made up of (barrel, skin, rod, shaft, strings, bow, kilo, string code, Cento, sound mat) .

Chimes

China is an early country that made and used musical clocks. The chimes, made of bronze, were arranged in different sizes of oblate bells in an order of pitch and hung from a huge bell stand, striking the bell with a t-shaped wooden hammer and a long stick respectively can produce wonderful music.

Guzheng

Guzheng is one of the unique and important national musical instruments in China. It has a beautiful timbre, a wide range of sound, rich playing skills, with a very strong expression. Zheng is often used for solo, ensemble, Instrumental Music and song, dance drama, art of accompaniment, because of wide range, beautiful tone, known as the"King of all music", also known as"Oriental piano.

he flute

he flute, a wind instrument, is an ancient instrument of the Han nationality discovered so far, and it is also a representative instrument of the Han nationality. In the national band, the flute is an important wind instrument, is regarded as the representative of the national wind music, known as the"King of folk music" flute sound clear and pleasant, can be called a flute rhyme long, blowing all kinds of customs.

XIAO

The flute of Xiao Jin is the flute of ancient times, and the cloud flute Fang is the flute of ancient times, pan Xiao also." Xiao has a long history, it is usually made of bamboo, blowing holes in the top. Xiao is suitable for playing low and euphemistic tunes, reverie of long and quiet sustenance, expression of delicate and rich emotions. Quiet and elegant, aftertaste infinite, bosom friend rare, intoxicated among them.

QIN

 Qin, invented in Fu Xi's time. In ancient times, People's cultural accomplishment is to use the piano, chess, books, painting four aspects of the performance of the piano for the first of the four talents. Like other musical instruments such as flute and Xiao, Qin can be appreciated through the walls

Xun

Xun is one of the oldest wind instruments in China, with a history of about 7,000 years. It may have been originally made by ancestors to imitate the sounds of birds and animals and to trap prey. With the development of society and evolved into a simple instrument, and gradually increase the sound hole, the development of melodic instruments can play tunes.

Sheng

Sheng, thirteen springs like Phoenix body also. Sheng, the sound of the first moon, so-called Sheng biological. Sheng, a reed instrument originated from China, is one of the earliest free reed instruments in the world. In traditional instrumental music and kunqu opera, the Sheng is often used as an accompaniment to other wind instruments such as the flute and the suona. In modern Chinese orchestras, Sheng can serve as a melody or accompaniment.

Drum

Drum is the traditional percussion instrument of our country, in the very early legend of "Yi Qi Shi" when there has been "Earth drum", that is, made of clay drums. Because the drum has a good resonance, the sound exciting and majestic sound spread far away, so very early by the Chinese ancestors as a military support of the use.