Brief introduction of Ruan musical instrument

Ruan is a traditional Chinese musical instrument, which is short for Ruan Xian. Ruan, like today, is different from Qiuci's pipa. Ruan Xian, one of the seven sages of bamboo forest in the Western Jin Dynasty, is good at playing pipa. During the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, a bronze pipa named "Ruan Xian" was unearthed in Ruan Xian's tomb. The structure is a wooden round box with straight handle, with four strings and twelve columns, which is played vertically by hand. In the Tang Dynasty, the pipa was a messenger in the army, so there was a saying that if you want to drink the pipa, you should urge it immediately.

After 1949, Ruan stringed instruments were improved and developed into Ruan musical instruments, which were divided into high-pitched Ruan, small Ruan, zhongruan, big Ruan and low-pitched Ruan. Among them, the high-pitched Ruan replaced the high-pitched plucked instrument of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, while zhongruan and Da Ruan were the low-pitched plucked instruments commonly used by various folk orchestras.

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Ruan's development course;

1 year, during the Han Dynasty, many musical instruments were introduced to China. In the second year of the Emperor (BC 1 15), Zhang Qian went to Wusunguo (now a Uzbek nation), and Wusunwang was arrogant and married Han. Before Princess Wu Sun got married, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered craftsmen who knew music to refer to Qin, Zheng, Zhu and Lie.

2. Ruan Xian was introduced into Japan in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Up to now, there is still a mother-of-pearl rosewood Ruan Xian handed down from the Tang Dynasty, which is treasured in the main warehouse of Toda Temple in Nara, the ancient capital of Japan.

3. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Ruan's reform and performing arts developed rapidly. In 1950s, Ruan carried out a series of reforms, which made Ruan have four parts: tenor, alto, alto and bass, and became a family of his own.

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