With the efforts of generations of national musicians,Chinese traditional musical instruments have constituted a large musical instrument system.According to incomplete statistics,China now has more than 600 varieties of national musical instruments with unique characteristics.These traditional national musical instruments can be generally divided into four categories: wind bowed,plucked strings,and percussion in accordance with che sound and playing methods.
Chinese wind instruments have a long history.On the carapace-bone-scripts unearthed in the Yin Ruins showed the names of such musical instruments as he (small sheng).For wind instruments,they make sou...
String and woodwind instrumental music involves one or twopieces of string instruments and bamboo wind instruments as the core of the band. This kind of music is popular mainly in the South. Its chara...
Chinese national musical instruments are well known not due to their long history, but more importantly because of the varieties and tones so that not a single country's national musical instrumen...
