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What is the instrument of Colorful China music

It's Konghou, and Colorful China is a children's song that celebrates the motherland.

Konghou is an ancient Chinese traditional stringed instrument, also known as a plucked string instrument. Originally known as "khonhou" or "konghou", in ancient times, in addition to the use of court music, also circulated in the folk. In ancient times, there are lying Konghou, vertical Konghou, phoenix head Konghou three forms.

Konghou in ancient times there are lying Konghou, vertical Konghou, phoenix head Konghou three forms. Historical Records - Book of Chanceling: "So the plug South Vietnam, praying for the ancestral temple Taiyi, after the earth, began to use music and dance, the benefit of calling the song, made twenty-five strings and the empty marquis qin and servers since then." The Records of the Grand Historian (史记-孝武本纪):"Then the South Vietnamese, prayed for the ancestral temple of Taiyi and Houtu, began to use music and dance, and summoned singers to make twenty-five strings and konghou qin and servers from then onwards." Tang Du You, "Tongdian": "Emperor Wu of Han made the musicians Hou tone made ...... today, according to its shape, like Arthur and small, seven strings, with a plucked pop such as pipa also." This belongs to the qin and se category of lying konghou. From Gansu Province Jiayuguan Wei and Jin tombs brick book, there is no pin column on its panel. Vertical Konghou, imported from Persia in the Han Dynasty, later known as "Hu Konghou". Sui music records: "This curved lute, vertical head of Konghou's disciples, and from the West, not the Chinese instruments."