What are the four major ancient Chinese musical instruments?

1, drums. Drums are China's traditional percussion instruments, according to the "Rituals - Mingtang bit" records, in the very early legend, "Iqi's" when there has been "earth drums", that is, made of clay drums. Because the drum has a good **** sounding effect, the sound is strong and majestic and far away, so very early by the Chinese ancestors as the army on the support of the use.

2, ocarina. An ancient wind instrument. Ceramic, but also made of stone, bone, ivory. As big as a goose egg or egg, slightly pointed at the top, flat bottom, hollow, spherical or oval and so on. There is a mouthpiece on the top, three, four or five holes in front, two holes in the back, ancient and modern variations.

3, zither. In ancient times, people's cultural cultivation is to use the qin, chess, calligraphy, painting four aspects of talent performance, playing the qin for the first of the four talents. Because the qin in ancient times refers to the guqin, the guqin has nine virtues, the instrument of the gentleman, symbolizing the positive virtues.

4, flute. Flute is one of China's most characteristic wind instruments. Qin and Han Dynasty has a seven-hole bamboo flute, and invented the two-headed flute, Cai Yong, Xun Castor, Liang Wu Di have made twelve law flute, that is, a flute a law.

Expanded Information:

China's music is an important part of the glorious Chinese culture. before the middle of the nineteenth century, it experienced three periods of the Ancient, Middle Ages, and Modern Times. Thousands of long years, it is famous for its colorful varieties and connotation-rich system.

It is customary to refer to this as the "ancient period" or "traditional period" of Chinese music, but each period in history has an "ancient", But every period in history is divided into "ancient" and "modern".

This period included the Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, when the song was generally popular, and the works of many famous lyricists were sung in the language, but also the emergence of the mastery of the music and rhythm of the lyricist. In the Song and Yuan, really as a variety of rap music and the main room of the matter of the drums and the Gong Gong tune.

The most important contribution of the Song and Yuan dynasties was the creation of the miscellaneous dramas.