What is Ma Touqin Music?

Ma Touqin is a stringed instrument of Mongolian nationality in China, which is named after the horse head engraved on the top of the piano. Ma Touqin has a long history, which evolved from the development of the stringed instrument Xiqin in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Genghis Khan (1155-1227) has spread among the people. According to The Travels of Marco Polo's records, in the12nd century, the Tatars (the predecessor of the Mongols) were popular with a two-stringed piano, which may be its predecessor. Used in Ming and Qing court bands. Due to the different spread areas, its name, shape, timbre and playing method are also different. It is called "Molinhur" in the west of Inner Mongolia, and "Chaoer" in Hulunbeier, Zheheimu and Zhaowudamang in the east of Inner Mongolia. There are also names such as Hu Wuer, Hu Qin, Mawei Hu Qin and Bowstring Hu Qin. Besides Inner Mongolia, Mongolians in Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Gansu and Xinjiang are also very popular.

Ma Touqin is a representative musical instrument of Mongolian people, which not only occupies a place in families in China and the world, but also is a favorite musical instrument of folk artists and herders. The music played by Ma Touqin is deep, rough and passionate, which embodies the Mongolian production, life and grassland customs.

Ma Touqin's excellent repertoire is many, and the traditional Qin music is diverse in style, full of grassland characteristics and euphemistic in tune, mainly depicting natural scenery or singing to horses. Such as Zhu Selie, Cool Hang Gai, Four Seasons, Mongolian Minor, Spring in Ordos, Cool Spring, Walking and "Ma bu". Zhu Selie is adapted from a folk song of the same name. "Zhu Selie" is the name of a mountain, which is used by music to describe the loyalty of love between men and women. "Cool Hang Gai" is a description of pastures with rich mountains, rivers and water plants in summer. Based on the folk songs of the same name, Four Seasons is melodious and smooth, depicting the changes of natural scenery in Xilin Gol prairie all year round and the herdsmen's love for their hometown. Excellent works praising the new era and new life include: New Songs on the Grassland by Darima, Spring Festival, Praise on the Grassland by Qi Baoligao, Grassland of Gyeonggi, Narration by Wan, Grassland in Erdos, Ma Touqin Concerto and Prairie Poetry by Xin Huguang. The New Song of Grassland is a hymn of grassland and herdsmen based on the songs of Ximeng and Hu Mengmin. "The grassland connected with Beijing" expresses the Mongolian people's strong pride in the grassland and their feelings for Beijing. Wan Ma Benteng depicts the grand construction prospect of Senecio scandens in Inner Mongolia. Someone once said: The description of the grassland and the melody of a Ma Touqin song are far more vivid than the colors of the painter and the language of the poet. This is apt. When a melodious Ma Touqin song rings in people's ears, close your eyes and meditate with the melody. ...