Architectural layout of Oriental Musical Instrument Museum

The exhibition hall of Oriental Musical Instrument Museum has four exhibition areas, namely, China ancient musical instruments, China modern musical instruments, minority musical instruments and foreign national musical instruments, and a multimedia exhibition hall. The Oriental Musical Instrument Museum has about 500 pieces (sets) of musical instruments.

Among the ancient musical instruments, the oldest is the Jia Hu bone flute, which has a history of 8,000 years and has seven tones. Bronzes unearthed in the Han Dynasty and bronze drums, harps and guqin handed down from the Ming and Qing Dynasties are all treasures in the collection. The biggest musical instrument is an imitation of Zeng Houyi's chime. The most striking thing is to copy the collection of Masakura Research Institute in Nara, Japan-the four-stringed pipa and the five-stringed pipa in the Tang Dynasty, inlaid with dazzling mother-of-pearl, jade and agate, which are jewel-like and exquisite. Modern National Musical Instruments shows the national orchestral instruments being used in contemporary China: from dozens of instruments of blowing, pulling, playing and playing, it shows the reform achievements and development track of China since 1950s.

From the minority musical instruments exhibition area, you can see colorful wind and string instruments of various ethnic minorities in the motherland. Such as the mouth string, octagonal piano and small stuffy flute of the Yi people; Gong and elephant foot drum of Dai nationality; Zhang Xi and Le Rong of Jingpo nationality; Ma Guhu and Bo Lie of Zhuang nationality; Lusheng of Miao nationality; Single stringed piano of Jing nationality: Bawu of Hani nationality, etc. There is also Dombrat from the Kazakh nationality in Xinjiang; Dutar and Ai Jieke of Uygur; Dong Qin in Tibetan Lama Temple and Zhamu Nie among the people; Mongolian Ma Touqin; Korean staff and drums; Manchu octagonal drum, etc.

The exhibition area of foreign national musical instruments shows the national folk musical instruments of various countries and regions in the world, such as Indian Wiener, Sitar and Tabour Drum. Japanese shakuhachi, Zhu Qian Pipa, Satsuma Pipa and Kouxian; Gayeqin, Xiqin, Yazheng and Xuanqin from North Korea and South Korea; Thai gongs, xylophones and crocodiles; Indonesian Ngorong, Russian Balalaika, Australian Dijelidu, etc. In June, 2004, Oriental Musical Instrument Museum purchased Gameland musical instruments worth 600,000 yuan from Indonesia, which was the first complete set of large Gameland musical instruments imported from China.