What are all the ancient musical instruments in history that are truly Chinese?

The four major ancient Chinese musical instruments: guqin, chimes, pipa and flute

The flute is not unfamiliar to us, and we have seen it on TV and in life. Originated in the Neolithic era. He is the most national characteristics of ancient China's wind instrument, the flute is used in opera, folk music and classical music, is one of the four major ancient Chinese musical instruments. Most of them are made of materials such as bamboo and mahogany, but there are also flutes made of stone flute and jade flute. Chinese bamboo flute is divided into two kinds one is the northern bang flute and the southern song flute, but I think the sound effect of the bamboo flute is better, and the cost is also low more suitable for beginners.

The pipa is a plucked-stringed musical instrument that originated in the Qin Dynasty and has a history of several thousand years, and we have seen it on TV used for women's solo performances. It is mainly made of wood and has four strings, and before that, it was made of silk in ancient times, and now it is made of steel wire and nylon. When playing the need to hold the right hand five fingers to play the left hand by the strings, for solo or accompaniment and ensemble and other forms of expression. There are two major schools of music, the Pinghu School and the Pudong School. Pipa is the generic name for the plucked instrument of the lute family, and the Chinese pipa has spread to Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and other countries.

The chimes originated 3,500 years ago in the Western Zhou Dynasty and flourished during the Qin and Han Dynasties, symbolizing power and status. China was the first country to invent the chime is mainly cast bronze, there are different sizes of flat round bells painted with beautiful patterns, hanging in the huge bells on the frame is mainly with a wooden hammer to beat the chime to send out different sounds of a musical instrument, each bell's tone is different in accordance with the score of the bells can be put together a very beautiful music. Mainly used for court performance, in the folk rarely seen. He is a cultural relic of the Warring States period, in 1978 when excavated in Hubei Suizhou.

The guqin, also known as the jade qin, yaoqin, etc. has more than 3,500 years of history, is a traditional Chinese musical instrument total **** 13 emblems were rituals and musical instruments. Guqin tone fine rhyme long and rich layers, is the most commonly used in the four ancient Chinese musical instruments inside a musical instrument. Mostly seen in the ancient literati used to play solo or cultivate the spirit of meditation and enlightenment of a spiritual food. Currently in the North and South Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, there are hundreds of zither sheet music, zither song up to three thousand, the Sui and Tang dynasties began to spread to Southeast Asian countries, and now has spread to all over the world to become a symbol of Oriental culture is also the national intangible cultural heritage.