What are the traditional musical instruments of the Han nationality?

Traditional musical instruments of the Han nationality include guzheng, flute, Ruan, Xiao, Sheng, Pipa, Ruan, Yueqin, Sanxian, Yayue, Pipa, Erhu, Jinghu, Banhu, Zhonghu, Gehu, Gong, cymbals and Xiao Gong. There are many kinds of traditional musical instruments of Han nationality, including four categories: wind instruments, plucked instruments, stringed instruments and percussion instruments.

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Wind instrument is a kind of musical instrument, which consists of pipes with holes. Wind instruments in Chinese musical instruments are generally made of bamboo. According to the different vibration modes, it can be divided into three categories: the first category, which makes the pipe string vibrate by blowing air into the mouthpiece: flute, flute (and bangdi), mouthpiece and so on. The second category, when the air blows through the whistle, the string vibrates: suona, sea flute, pipe, double pipe and throat. In the third category, the vibration of pipe string caused by airflow passing through reed includes: Sheng, Baosheng, Paisheng, Eighth Five-Year Plan, etc.

The plucked instrument has a long history and various forms, and it is a very distinctive stringed instrument. As early as 3,000 years ago in the Zhou Dynasty, there were musical instruments such as "Qin" and "Se", and then they successively produced or imported Zhu and Zheng in the Warring States Period, green beans in the Qin Dynasty, pipa in the Han Dynasty, Ruan and Pipa in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Sanxian in the Yuan Dynasty and dulcimer in the Ming Dynasty over the weekend. Plucked instruments can be divided into horizontal and vertical types.

Percussion instrument, also called "percussion instrument", refers to the sound produced by percussion instrument itself. Some are percussion instruments with fixed pitch, such as cymbals and chimes. There are also some percussion instruments that have no fixed pitch, such as bangzi, bangzi, banjo, waist drum and tambourine.