What musical instruments existed in ancient times that rivaled modern ones?

? Music without borders, national music needs to be inherited ancient musical instruments there are many have been passed down to the present day, can be integrated into the modern musical instruments. But there are a lot of classical instruments that are not used anymore. I think those instruments that played an important role in ancient times are comparable to modern instruments. At that time, the musical instruments are certainly very advanced, the development of musical instruments and productivity have a close link, mostly from the life of the evolution of production tools, the main types of musical instruments for percussion and wind instruments.

? Confucius also implemented the rites and music system, it can be seen that the ancient society at that time, the musical instruments are very important. Here are a few more influential instruments. One is the ocarina, ocarina this thing after many years to have today's level, the earliest unearthed six or seven thousand years of ocarina only one or no sound holes, and do not know how historians identify them as musical instruments, in any case, after 3,000 years before the development of a more standard 5-hole ocarina, the Shang Dynasty molded the classic five-hole oval ocarina, Qin and Han after the use of elegant music at the court, a small ode to the ocarina and the large elegant ocarina. All in all, there is a big gap between the ancient ocarina and what we can see now. It can be said that the modern ocarina, the real history of only a hundred years.

As we all know, Zenghouyi chimes, early Warring States cultural relics, is an unprecedented discovery in the history of music! It is Chinese and foreign experts, scholars called "rare treasure. It is the knot of ancient Chinese people's high degree of wisdom Chimes are traditional Chinese rituals and music, is the carrier of the ancient Chinese society and the symbol of the national sound. Ancient musical instruments are national treasures, are the history of the treasure left to us, reflecting the depth and breadth of Chinese culture.

These two instruments are considered to be very representative, if you have the opportunity to go to the museum to carefully appreciate the artifacts of Chinese musical instruments.