Belonging to plucked instruments is

1, guqin, guzheng and other musical instruments

This instrument has a rectangular wooden box as the piano body, which is played horizontally with the strings. Guqin can only be played with strings, and others only use its empty string sound.

2. Pipa instruments

Represented by pipa, it includes, yueqin, Ruan, Sanxian and other musical instruments. It is equipped with four, three or two strings, the left hand presses the string, the right hand plucks the string, and the multi-play vertical hug.

3. dulcimer

Lay it flat on the wooden frame and play the strings with the piano and bamboo to get the sound. It was introduced from foreign countries around the Ming Dynasty. There are many kinds of plucked instruments. Next, the most commonly used instruments in Chinese orchestras are introduced in turn: Pipa, Qin Liu, Yang Qin, Hezheng, Ruan and Sanxian.

4. Ruan

Ruan is a plucked instrument in China. Ruan was always called "Qin Pipa" in ancient times. During the Qin Dynasty in the second and third centuries BC, people added strings to small drums with handles to make plucked instruments, which were called "pottery". Later, people referred to Zheng, Zhu and other musical instruments, and created a more advanced musical instrument than Xianfei, called Qinpipa, which was the predecessor of Ruan.

5. Dombrat

Dongbula is an ancient Kazakh stringed instrument. In some Kazakh families, even a family can play several songs. In Kazakh, winter bula has a special meaning: "winter" is the sound of playing musical instruments, and "bula" means plucking the strings.