When was the piano introduced to China?

The piano, as a Western musical instrument with a history of 300 years, has been introduced to China for nearly 200 years. It was first introduced to China from England during the Ming Dynasty. But it was the mid-19th century when the piano entered China on a certain scale. It is so saddening to say that such a beautiful instrument, is accompanied by the foreigner's ships and cannons, in the smoke of the Opium War into China, but also because of the people of the country on its unfamiliarity, and its playing skills are difficult, but also because of the ear drums are used to listening to the silk, bamboo, and strings, the first heard the piano sound, can not help but feel strange and monotonous. However, the piano is after all a piano, it is not only in a foreign country in the ancient Orient stood, in the early twentieth century, also established a piano assembly plant in Shanghai, although the main parts are shipped from the United Kingdom, after all, the piano in our country at that time there is a certain amount of demand, and in the process of production for the piano industry in our country later to cultivate the technical personnel.