What musical instrument best represents Chinese musical instruments?

Guqin best represents Chinese musical instruments.

Whether it can represent Chinese musical instruments is a question raised from an international perspective. It must meet two conditions. First, it must be a national musical instrument. Secondly, this instrument and the music it plays are very popular with foreign audiences and have a great influence. It should be Guqin that can meet these two conditions at the same time.

Qin was invented in Fuxi era and in western Shandong and eastern Henan. It was a banjo, and later seven strings were added (also called "banjo"; Collectively referred to as "Guqin"). In ancient times, people's cultural accomplishment was manifested in four aspects: piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and playing the piano was the first of the four talents.

In costume TV series, everyone can see the protagonist playing some particularly poetic music. Men play guqin and women play guzheng. Guqin is the earliest stringed instrument of the Chinese nation with a history of thousands of years. It is a treasure of China culture. It is admired by the world for its long history, rich literature, rich connotation and far-reaching influence. Its history is longer than that of guzheng.

Due to the decline of guqin and its symbolic cultural thought, guqin art was included in the second batch of world intangible cultural heritage representative list by UNESCO on June 7, 2003. On May 20th, 2006, People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council, China listed the guqin in the 1 national intangible cultural heritage list, and classified it as "folk music", numbered II-34.

Ancient books recorded Fuxi's piano-making, as well as legends about Shennong's piano-making, Huangdi's piano-making and Tang Yao's piano-making. Shun set the piano as five strings, adding one string and reducing one string to seven strings; It can be seen that Chinese guqin culture has a long history and is profound.