The Bamboo and Stringed Instruments Show in The History Museum of Nanxun
1 min readThere is a exhibition hall of musical instruments and a special hall for performance in the museum. In the exhibition hall,a variety of popular instruments in Southern China are collected and displayed. The representative collection among them is the oldest pipa,a plucked five-string instrument with a fretted fingerboard. After appreciating the bamboo and stringed instruments, tourists may enjoy a performance. The pieces of folk music are all played on bamboo and stringed instruments, even dancers take something made of bamboo as props in their hands.
When tourists are told about the history of Nanxun, the profound culture, the economic development, the political progress, and the social achievements, they might get it why the small ancient town has the fashionable life that can be comparable to the metropolitan city of Shanghai.
They can understand it further why the unique charm of Nanxun lies in the combination of the Western and Chinese cultures. The facts may well explain why the Western-style buildings stand in Chinese gardens, Christian churches and Catholic churches coexist with Taoist and Buddhist temple, Chinese bamboo instruments and products appeared in the Waltz dancing ball, even the earliest private tennis court of China appeared in Nanxun.
