Chinese folk musical instruments are often categorized by what

Chinese folk musical instruments are often categorized by wind instruments, plucked instruments, percussion instruments and stringed instruments.

1, wind instruments: most of the articulated bodies of wind instruments are made of bamboo or wood. According to the different methods of vibration, can be divided into three categories: blowing into the mouthpiece with airflow excitation column vibration xiao, flute (flute and bang flute), mouth flute, etc.; airflow through the reed blowing into the column vibration of suona, hay flute, pipe, double pipe and throat pipe, etc.; airflow through the reed column vibration of sheng, hold the sheng, paixiang, bawu, etc..

2, plucked instruments: horizontal and vertical two categories. Horizontal such as: zheng (guzheng and tuning zheng), guqin, yangqin and dulcimer, etc.; vertical such as: pipa, ruan, yueqin, sanxian, liuqin, dongbula and zamu nie and so on.

3, percussion: percussion instruments are not only rhythmic instruments, and each group of percussion group can be played independently, to set off the musical content, dramatic plot and aggravate the musical expression has an important role.

4, stringed instruments: mainly refers to the huqin class of instruments. With beautiful articulation, rich expressive power, high performance skills and artistic level, stringed instruments are widely used in solo, repertoire, ensemble and accompaniment.

History of Chinese national musical instruments

Only from the excavated artifacts can be confirmed: as far back as the pre-Qin period, there are a variety of musical instruments. For example, the bone whistle unearthed at the Neolithic cultural site of Hemudu in Zhejiang Province, the bone flute of Jiahu in Maoyang County, Henan Province (the earliest flute is about 8,000 years old), the ocarina unearthed at the Yangshao cultural site of Xi'an in the village of half-slope, the stone chime and the wooden-cavity python skin drum unearthed at the Yinxu Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province.

Chimes, chimes, hanging drums, building drums, Quercus drums, reed pipes, shengs, quercus, thurles and so on were unearthed in Zenghouyi's tomb in Suixian County, Hubei Province, where he was buried in 433 B.C.

These ancient musical instruments show people that the Chinese culture was a very important one. These ancient musical instruments show people the wisdom and creativity of the Chinese nation.