What is Fujian Nanyin Music
Fujian Nanyin music is simple, elegant, calm and harmonious with a long history. From frescos dating back to the Tang Dynasty, there were musical instruments of the same type, for example, the Nanyin...
The Ethnic Music of the Dong Ethnic Group in China
Dong people inhabit Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi provinces of China. They are a creative ethnic group. As the saying goes, "Dong's culture is composed of three treasures: the Drum Tower,Ka Lau...
What is the Traditional Chinese Instrument Pipa?
Pipa has four-stringed lute with 30 frets and pear-shaped body. The musician holds the instrument upright and play with five small plectrums attached to each finger of the right hand. The history of P...
Guqin is Suitable for Self Entertainment
Compared with other stringed instruments, such as the guzheng, the guqin is of a smaller size and has a thinner board. There is a thick layer of lacquer on the surface of the guqin.So, the sound playe...
What are the Characteristics of Chinese Guqin?
The guqin has seven strings and is tuned in a pentatonic scale, with major second or minor third between two strings next to each other. So playing the different strings may create the same tone,which...
Traditional Chinese Plucked Instrument,Guqin
Plucked string instruments are the collective term for musical instruments that use fingers and use bamboo to strike the strings to make sounds. It has a very long history, and the qin and se emerged...
Muqam of the Uygur Minority
The Uygur minority inhabits the Xinjiang Uygir Autoroncnu Region in the northwest part of China.The Uygurs tike singie and dancing in festivalIs and leisure times, In fact, singing an dancing are impo...
Chinese Bowed String Instrument, Banhu and Morin Khuur
The banhu, also called yehu, qinhu, huhu, daxian, and piao, emerged along with clapper opera. It is shorter than the erhu, and oftenmade from coconut shells or wood and bamboo.The rods are mostly made...
The History of Chinese Flute is Very Long
For many Chinese people, the melody of the transversely-played bamboo flute or Dizi in Chinese, calls to mind a picture of a country cowherd riding a bull in the spring breeze. The gnarls in the long...
China has Rich Ethnic Minority Music
China is a united nation consisting of 56 ethnic groups. Apart from the Han nationality, there are 55 ethnic groups,witha comparatively smaller population, and so they are known as "minorities.&q...
