What are the main national musical instruments in China?

The Chinese nation is an ancient country with a long and splendid history of music culture. Five or six thousand years ago, there were musical instruments made of stones, pottery and bones.

Today, China's national musical instruments are plucked and varied. Some world-famous traditional folk music in China, such as "Chasing the Moon with Clouds", "Moonlit Night on a Spring River", "House of Flying Daggers" and "Reflecting the Moon in Two Springs", are all played with national musical instruments, which are completely comparable to European music.

Large national musical instruments mainly include:

Guqin is a kind of flat lyre with simple and elegant timbre. Guqin's repertoire includes: mountains, flowing water, drunken fishermen singing late, Guangling San, plum blossom three lanes, Hu Jia eighteen beats and so on.

Pipa-a plucking instrument, ukulele is common now. Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Half a face is still covered after the piano", which vividly describes the playing posture of the pipa. Chinese music "House of Flying Daggers", "Overlord Dismantling", "Chun Xue" and "Song of Frontier Defense" are all famous pipa performances.

Erhu-a kind of Hu Qin with ponytail as the bow string and worn on the legs. His repertoire includes Two Springs Reflecting the Moon, Walking in the Light, Singing in Illness, Birds in the Empty Mountain and so on.

There are also guzheng, dulcimer and wind instruments: sheng, Xiao, pipe, flute and so on. , are fine national musical instruments.

In addition, there are gongs, drums, cymbals, boards, bells, wooden fish and so on. It is also a national musical instrument.