What musical instrument did the eight tones in ancient China represent?

"Eight Tones" is a traditional instrumental music and percussion music in China.

This is the earliest classification method of musical instruments in China, which was first seen in Zhou Li Spring Palace.

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, musical instruments at that time were divided into gold (bells, cymbals and cymbals), stone (chimes), silk (harps and harps), bamboo (flutes and cymbals), cymbals (gongs and cymbals) and earth (cymbals) according to the production materials.

According to "The Biography of Nan Man in the New Tang Dynasty", the eight tones in the Tang Dynasty changed the three types of Zhou Bayin into Jia, Ya and Jiao, so the eight tones in the Tang Dynasty were Jin, Jia and Jiao.

"Eight tones" also refers to folk musical instruments.

Extended data:

The eight tones of the Western Zhou Dynasty are as follows:

1, Musical Instruments: Sheng, Hulusheng and Hulusi are all musical instruments.

2. Earth: It belongs to earth musical instruments.

3. Leather: drums, such as snare drums and war drums.

4, wood: board, wooden fish, bangzi, [wooden brother] (ancient musical instrument wooden elephant box) and so on.

5. Stone: Green and Jade Emperor.

6. Gold: gongs, drums, cymbals, cymbals, etc.

7. Silk: pipa, harp, guzheng, erhu, etc.

8. Bamboo: pipes, flutes and flutes (ancient musical instruments are shaped like flutes).

The eight tones of the Tang Dynasty are as follows:

1, and "gold" includes bell cymbals and iron plates;

2. The category of "shellfish" includes snails;

3. The category of "silk" includes grand piano, single stringed instrument, grand piano, Tuo's first piano, Feng's violin, Long's pipa and Yuntou violin.

4. "Bamboo" includes horizontal flute and double flute;

5. The category of "baa" includes big baa and small baa;

6. "Leather" includes three-sided drums and small drums;

7. The category of "tooth" includes odontogenesis;

8. The category of "jiao" includes triangle sheng and two-jiao sheng.