The ancients in China made many kinds of musical instruments with wisdom. What are the four ancient musical instruments?

Four ancient musical instruments in China: guqin, chime, pipa and flute.

Guqin, also known as the lyre, Qin Yu, Stone and lyre, is a traditional musical instrument in China with a history of at least 3,000 years.

Ancient books recorded Fuxi's piano-making, as well as legends about Shennong's piano-making, Huangdi's piano-making and Tang Yao's piano-making. Shun set the piano as five strings, adding one string and reducing one string to seven strings; It can be seen that Guqin culture has a long history and is profound.

Guqin has 13 emblems marking melody, and is also a ritual vessel and musical instrument. The silk belonging to the octave. Guqin has a wide range, deep timbre and lingering sound.

Guqin is the most famous musical instrument in China culture. Since ancient times, "Qin" is its unique name. /kloc-It was renamed Guqin in the 1920s to distinguish it from the piano. There is a saying in Qin that "scholars do not withdraw their weapons without reason" and "left the piano and right the book". It ranks first among the four traditional arts in China, namely "Chyi Chin Painting and Calligraphy". It is considered as a representative of elegance and an accompaniment instrument for literati to sing. Since ancient times, it has been a necessary knowledge and compulsory subject for many literati. The story of Boya and Zhong Ziqi's bosom friend "high mountains and flowing water" has been passed down to this day; Qintai is considered as a symbol of friendship. Qin is found in a large number of poems.

China ancient large percussion instruments, chimes rose in the Western Zhou Dynasty and flourished in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period until the Qin and Han Dynasties. China was the first country to make and use musical clocks. It is made of bronze, arranged in pitch order by flat round clocks of different sizes, hung on a huge clock rack, and struck with a T-shaped wooden hammer and a long stick respectively, which can make different music sounds, because each clock has different tones and can play wonderful music according to the sound spectrum. A set of bronze bells with different tones hung on the wooden frame, and ancient maids beat the music with mallets.

Pipa, the earliest plucked instrument, is a plucked instrument. Wooden, the speaker is half pear-shaped with four strings on it. Originally made of silk thread, now it is made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon. The neck and panel have "phase" and "product" for determining phonemes. It is an important national musical instrument for solo, accompaniment, ensemble and ensemble. Pipa is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, with a history of more than two thousand years. The earliest musical instrument "Pipa" in China appeared around the Qin Dynasty. The word "Jue" in the word "Pipa" means "two pieces of jade collide and make a pleasant knocking sound", which means that it is a musical instrument that sounds by plucking the strings. Their names "Pi" and "Pa" are based on the right-handed skills of playing these instruments. In other words, pipa and arpeggio are the names of two playing techniques. The right hand plays the pipa forward and the right hand plays the arpeggio backward.

The flute is an ancient musical instrument in China, and it is also the most representative and national musical instrument in China. China bamboo flute is one of the woodwind instruments commonly used in China traditional music, which is generally divided into Qu Di in the south, Bangdi in the north and alto flute in the middle.