Ancient Chinese Bowed Instrument
Bowed instruments are colleetively called huqin in Chinese.Initially the hugin was the musical instrument used by people in the north. It was during the Northern Song period that it was introduced to...
Chinese Wind Instruments
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...
Chinese Music is Older than Chinese Characters
Historically, music,both at home and abroad,appeared earlier than Chinese characters.Ancient Chinese literature typically attributed the origin of Chinese music to Emperor Huangdi who lived more than...
The Relationship between Ancient Chinese Intellectuals and Traditional Musical Instruments
Scholar music is a traditional music created or participated in by intellectual classes with cultural cultivation throughout history in China, which is improved, and passed down. It is a musical and a...
Chinese Music is an Independent Development System
Music is a soul-touching art that has developed in the long process of human civilization. A wide variety of distinctive music cultures, such as Indian, Asian, Jewish, Gypsy and Latin American music,...
Chinese Musical Instrument System
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 t...
Ancient Chinese musical instruments
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...
The Development History of Chinese Music, From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Qing Dynasty
The music and dance in ancient times reflects the life and production of the tribes at that time.They are original expressions of simple emotions.In the slave society,music and dance became a tool of...
Ancient Chinese Music
Music reflects thoughts of people,sense of beauty and arts of the human being. It, in a special way,shows different cultures of people and concepts in the world. That is why it is considered as a gem...
