Wu Xiaohui asked: What are the four categories of national instrumental music in China according to their playing methods and vocal characteristics?

China national instrumental music can be divided into four categories according to the playing methods and vocal characteristics: pipe, string, percussion and plucking.

1, playing musical instruments:

China wind instruments are mostly made of bamboo or wood. It mainly uses airflow to excite the air column, diaphragm or reed to vibrate and sound. Loud voice.

2, plucked instruments:

China's plucked instruments are divided into horizontal and vertical. Horizontal styles, such as: zither, guqin, dulcimer, piano solo; Vertical, such as: Pipa, Ruan, Yueqin, Sanxian, Dongbula, Zamu Nie.

3, percussion instruments:

China has a wide variety of national percussion instruments, rich skills and distinctive national style.

4. Playing stringed instruments:

String instruments mainly refer to huqin instruments. Most stringed instruments are double stringed instruments, and a few use four stringed instruments, such as Hu Si, Gehu and Ai Jieke.

Extended data:

According to the performance function of China traditional national instrumental music, it can be divided into three types:

1, practical music. Most of them are related to folk activities, such as Chinese New Year holidays, weddings and funerals, temple fairs and religious activities. Others come from opera scenes or folk songs and dances. This kind of music often sets off and renders an atmosphere with its single and generalized emotion. For example, China Flower Six Board, Late Night, Qingfeng Harvest, etc.

2. Music based on realism. Express people's feelings by depicting some scenes and events in real life. For example, birds fly at the phoenix, the dragon wins the brocade, the running water and so on.

3. Music based on freehand brushwork and love writing. Some directly express the feelings of the characters, such as Two Springs Reflecting the Moon and Rivers. Some people express their ambitions by things, create feelings by scenery, embody feelings by scenery, and melt scenery by scenery. Just like China's ancient poems and paintings, they pay attention to artistic conception and charm, and express their feelings in an implicit way. Such as "fishing boat sings late" and "plum blossom three lanes".