Chinese Wind and Drum Music

Wind and drum music involves such main instruments as pipes,suona,haidi (smaller-sized suona), and flutes,along with other orchestral and percussion instruments. 

There are wide varieties of wind and drum music spread in various places, and the performance forms can be divided into three categories, namely, wind and drum music mainly based on pipes,with representatives including the Hebei Music Association, North Shanxi folk pipe-wind music,and music of the Beijing Zhihua Temple; wind and drum music mainly based on the suona (or haidi), with representatives including wind and drum music of Jilin,Liaoning,east Hebei, southwest Shandong, Shanxi, and Yili. Wind and drum music is mainly based on the flute,from southwest and central Shandong.