What is an elegant musical instrument?

Ya (pinyin: kōnghóu) is a plucked instrument. The elegance of vertical head, also known as Hu Fengya, was introduced from the western regions during the period of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty. Elegant three feet high, shaped like a half-length wooden comb, the number of strings varies with the size of the instrument. The minimum is 5 strings, and the maximum is 25 strings. After several generations of development and improvement from Sui and Tang Dynasties to Ming Dynasty, combined with local music and cultural habits, it has created a taste for both refined and popular tastes in the Tang Dynasty. In the murals of Qiuci Grottoes, music pipa and vertical baskets often appear in Buddhist diagrams, nirvana diagrams, karma stories and Jiletian people's support diagrams. After the Tang dynasty, the school specifically refers to the vertical school. The strings are usually tied to an open frame and fingered. In the popular music of Sui and Tang Dynasties, elegant music, pipa, banjo and zither are collectively called Sixian. Yan music system in Ming Dynasty, 4 feet 8 inches long, with 20 strings carved on the handle. The Masakura Research Institute in Nara, Japan, preserved the remains of the vertical basket of lacquerware in the Tang Dynasty, including grooves, necks, foot columns, castanets and beams. According to the remnants and related images, the speaker should be on a curved wood bent upward, and the crossbar below is used to tie the strings. Since the Tang Dynasty, fewer and fewer people have played the piano. It gradually disappeared after the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In the 1930 s, there were copies of music. In the 1959 s, Beijing Musical Instrument Research Institute developed the music of the Ming Dynasty.