China has 56 different ethnic groups, each of which has its favorite musical instruments. The Silk and Bamboo music and...
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from Guangyuan, Sichuan Province In addition to drums, clappers, and transverse flutes, traditional opera of the Song-yuan period also utilized...
from Xuanhua, Hebei Province In 1971 , villagers leveling ground in Xuanhua, Hebei Province discovered an ancient tomb that contained...
China's traditional opera has an extremely long history, with origins reaching back to the pre-Qin period (prior to 221 BC)....
The konghou (harp) is another plucked string instrument that was introduced to China from Western Asiavia the Silk Road. Two...
from Hejialong, Wuchang The practice of burying pottery figurines with the dead, common during the Han Dynasty, once more came...
from the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing The qin is China's oldest plucked string instrument. Throughout Chinese history, members...
from the Nara National Museum, Japan The ruanxian (round lute) was another popular instrument of the Sui-Tang period (581-907 AD)....
is constructed of thirteen graduated pipes, bound and inserted into a three-piece bamboo body. The entire instrument is coated with...
from Xihukou, Tengzhou, Shandong Province Han tomb engravings of musical activities most commonly depict performances of jiangu drumming and dancing....
from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng The qin, an ancient Chinese plucked string instrument, has a history dating...
from the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng Numerous shiqing (stone chimes) have been recovered from Shang Dynasty (c. 1600-1046...
As long ago as 10,000 to 9000 BC, people in the Middle East in the area of present-day Iraq started...
from Huoshaogou, Yumen, Gansu Province The pottery run (ocarina) is a common wind instrument that first appeared during China's Neolithic...
Musical instruments are specialized implements for producing sound. The primitive musical instruments used by early humans were no more than...