Ancient music playing style

China's ancient music is played in a variety of ways, from the form of performance is roughly divided into blowing, pulling, playing, playing four categories.

One, wind instruments

Blowing instruments are sheng, reed fungus, row of sheng, gourd silk, flute, pipe, etc.;

1, blowing instruments are composed of tubes with holes, China's blowing instruments, most of the articulated body of the body of bamboo or wood.

2, a wide variety of wind instruments, because of their different principles of articulation, so they are all very personalized, colorful tone, the formation of an extremely rich and varied playing skills, with a unique style of playing and school.

3, according to the different methods of vibration, generally can be divided into three categories: air blowing into the mouthpiece excitation column vibration, such as xiao, flute, mouth flute, etc.; air blowing through the reed to make the column vibration, such as suona, sea flute, throat pipe, double pipe, etc.; air through the reed caused by the column vibration, such as the sheng, hold the sheng, row of the sheng, the bawu and so on.

Second, plucked instruments

Plucked instruments are zheng, guqin, pipa, ruan, liuqin, dongbura, etc.;

1, plucked instruments is a finger or plectrum plucked strings, and the use of zither bamboo struck strings and the pronunciation of the general term of the instrument.

2, plucked instruments have a long history, a wide variety of forms, is very rich in characteristics of a class, most of which have a rich history, strong Chinese colors and full of personality of the sound expression.

3, China's traditional plucked instruments are mainly divided into two categories: horizontal and vertical. Horizontal, such as: zheng, guqin, yangqin and dulcimer, etc.; vertical, such as: pipa, ruan, yueqin, sanxian, liuqin, konghou, liutian, zamu nie and dongbura.

Three, percussion instruments

The percussion instruments are cloud gongs, chimes, clappers, clappers, board drums, waist drums, tambourines and so on;

1. Percussion instruments are a kind of musical instruments that produce effects by hitting, shaking, rubbing, scraping and so on, and they may be the world's oldest kinds of musical instruments.

2, some percussion instruments not only produce rhythm, but also make melodic and choral effects. Generally through the rhythm and timbre to decorate and express the music, rendering the atmosphere.

3, percussion instruments can be generally divided into two kinds of fixed pitch and unfixed pitch. No fixed pitch such as big and small drums, big and small gongs, big and small cymbals, boards, bangs, bells, etc.; fixed pitch such as timpani, drums, gongs, etc..

Four, stringed instruments

The stringed instruments are erhu, banhu, gehu, horse head qin and so on.

1, stringed instruments mainly refers to the huqin class of instruments. It has beautiful articulation, rich expressive power, high performance skills and artistic level, so it is widely used in solo, repertoire, ensemble and accompaniment.

2, China's traditional stringed instruments, including erhu, gaohu, jinghu, banhu, zhonghu, gehu, horse-head qin, etc., its tone is soft, good at playing the singing melody, with rich, delicate expressive power.