Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - I'd like to introduce you to some classical instruments, such as the guzheng, pipa, xiao, and so on.

I'd like to introduce you to some classical instruments, such as the guzheng, pipa, xiao, and so on.

The bamboo flute has a wide range of varieties. The most popular ones are the qu flute, bang flute and the fixed-key flute. There are also the Yuping flute, the seven-hole flute, the piccolo and the Shun flute, etc. The Chinese flute has a strong national character. Chinese flute has strong national characteristics, pronunciation is moving, Wan Hui. In ancient times, it was called "the sound of cleansing", so the original name of the flute was "cleansing", and the "cleansing flute" still exists in Japan, which has evolved into the flute of today. The flute is an important melodic instrument in the Chinese folk orchestra, mostly used for solo performance, but also can participate in the ensemble.

Flute, bamboo flute, as a wind instrument, has its own characteristics, the flute is not difficult to learn, in general, after a year and a half of practice will hope to play the melodious, but if you want to climb to the peak of the art of excellence, then even if you spend a lifetime of experience is also worth it, so the purpose of the different learning methods are different. If you are an amateur, the purpose of learning is to enrich your life, you can't devote a lot of time to art learning. If you are a professional who aspires to learn the pipa and to climb to the peak of the art, then you should get down to the basics, and the more solid the foundation, the better. The pipa, also known as the "batch handle", was first described in the history of the Han Dynasty by Liu Xi in his "Interpretation of Names. Interpretation of Musical Instruments": "batch of this out of the Hu, the drums on the horse. Push the hand before said batch, lead hand but said put, like its drum time, because of the name also." This means that the recorder is a musical instrument played on a horse, played forward as a batch and backward as a handle; it is named "batch handle" based on the characteristics of its performance. In ancient times, knocking, hitting, playing and playing were all called drums. At that time, nomads rode on horses and played the pipa well, so it was called "the drum on the horse". Around the time of the Wei and Jin dynasties, the lute was officially called the pipa. Pipa evolved from the historical straight pipa and curved pipa, according to historical records, the straight pipa appeared earlier in China, the Qin and Han Dynasties, "Qin Hanzi", is a straight handle round *** sound box of the straight pipa (*** sound box on both sides of the masked leather), which is from the end of the Qin Dynasty, the development of stringed rattle. "Ruan Xian" or "Ruan" is a straight-handled wooden round *** sound box, four strings and twelve columns, the vertical embrace of the hand to play the pipa. Jin Dynasty Ruan Xian good play this instrument, so called by its name, that is, today's Ruan. Guangzhou JiaYiXuan art training center