What are the characteristics of Chinese ethnic musical instruments

Hulusi, also known as "gourd xiao", is a musical instrument of the Yunnan ethnic minorities, and is mainly played by the Dai, Yi, Achang and De'ang ethnic groups.

Hulusi can be categorized into three types: high, medium and low, and is commonly played in the keys of Bb, C and D. It originated in Dehong Dai, and is now used as a musical instrument in Yunnan Province. Hulusi originated in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and is mainly popular in Dehong and Lincang areas of Yunnan where the Dai, Achang, Wa, De'ang and Brown ethnic groups live, with rich local colors.

Hulusi (or hulusi Xiao) is one of the unique musical instruments of Yunnan's ethnic minorities. Mainly circulated in Yunnan Province, western Yunnan Dai area, in the Brown, De'ang and other ethnic minorities are also more popular.

The Dai people are multi-talented and can sing and dance well. During festivals, no matter in the river rowing dragon boat or in the riverside put "high rise" (with bamboo tube made of clay rockets), or in the square "to catch the swing" or in the bamboo building drinking feast, can be heard the moving sound of music.

Hulusi is loved by the majority of music lovers and Chinese and foreign tourists because of its unique and beautiful tone, rustic appearance, soft, elegant, easy to learn, small and portable.

The traditional hulusi is a reed instrument, its structure consists of a gourd and two (or three) bamboo tubes, the upper end of the gourd for the mouthpiece, the lower end of the gourd and the three bamboo tubes connected to the sound tube, in which the middle of a thicker and longer bamboo tubes for the main sound tube, the main sound tube has six holes in the front of the sound hole (sound holes), the back of the upper end of the sound hole for the seventh sound holes, the bottom of the overtone holes (sound holes) and the two holes for the string. Two stringing holes. The main tone pipe is fitted with a metal reed at the top, which is inserted into the gourd, and its end is fitted with a soft stopper.

There is no hole for the secondary main tone pipe, so one end of the reed-equipped secondary tone pipe is inserted into the left or right side of the main tone pipe of the gourd. When the gourd silk is being played, if the soft stopper at the bottom of the secondary tone pipe is taken out, the tone of the reed-equipped secondary tone will sound with the main tone, but the tone of the secondary tone can only be sent out in one tone. Now the commonly used gourd silk has C key, small F key small D key, B-flat key, A key, F key, G key, E key, big D key and so on several kinds.

The guzheng, also known as the Han zheng, Qin zheng, Yao zheng, luan zheng, is a traditional instrument of the Han ethnic group in the zheng instrument, belongs to the plucked instrument. It is one of the unique and important ethnic musical instruments in China. It has a beautiful tone, wide range, rich playing skills, and quite strong expressive power, so it is loved by the general public. Nowadays, there are also small guzhengs, portable guzhengs, mini guzhengs, half guzhengs, new guzhengs, and twelve equal-tempered guzhengs. The guzheng is an ancient national musical instrument that accompanies China's long history of culture and was born and raised on the fertile yellow land. It is a plucked musical instrument, and its structure consists of a panel, a goose post (also called a zheng code in some places), strings, a front yakuzan, string pegs, a tuning box, a foot, a back yakuzan, a side plate, a sound outlet, a bottom plate, and a string piercing hole.

The zheng's shape is a rectangular wooden box, the string holder "zheng column" (i.e., goose column) can be moved freely, one string, one tone, arranged according to the pentatonic scale, the earliest 25-stringed zheng is the most (divided into the zheng for the Thur), the Tang and Song dynasties have thirteen strings, and then increased to sixteen, eighteen strings, twenty-one strings, and so on, and the most commonly used specification at present is the 21-stringed; usually the model of the guzheng is the front string, the back string, the back string, the back string, and the bottom board, and the hole of string. strings; usually the guzheng model before the use of S163-21, S represents the S-shaped yue shan, is Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin *** with the invention, 163 represents the length of the guzheng is about 163 centimeters, 21 represents the number of strings of the guzheng 21.

Erhu (Pinyin: Erhu) began in the Tang Dynasty, called "Xiqin", and has a history of more than a thousand years. It is a general term for both Western and Chinese stringed and plucked instruments. Erhu, also known as the "huqin", Erhu is one of the main bowed string instruments (stringed instruments) in the family of Chinese musical instruments.