Development history of Chinese musical instruments

Hunting and song and dance accompaniment are the main forms, and percussion instruments are used, such as Qing, bronze bell, bamboo, Yi, pipe, clam, sheng,, and so on. Basically, there is not much development, but it follows the path from indefinite tone to fixed tone, from less to more, from amorphous to fixed tone and so on.

2. Xia and Shang Dynasties

With the increase of drums, bells, chimes, cymbals, rhymes, rhymes, rhymes, rhymes, rhymes, rhymes, rhymes and other musical instruments, percussion instruments and polyphonic instruments with fixed tones appeared, and people gradually mastered the interval relationship of pure fourth, third, second and second degrees.

3. Pre-Qin period

Musical instruments have not only increased, such as percussion instruments: drums, bells, cymbals, elegant instruments, wishes, springs, buildings, pipes, drums, flutes, cymbals and cymbals, and stringed instruments: Qin, Qin and Zheng.

4. Qin, Han, Sui and Tang Dynasties

In the heyday of musical instrument development, playing musical instruments (such as Qin, Qin, cricket, pipa, banjo,,) gained unprecedented prosperity and development. Pipa is the most important musical instrument in the Tang Dynasty, mainly playing court Yan music. Since the Han Dynasty, the pipa instrument has used the law of average, and it has developed rapidly.

5. Liao Song Xixia Jin Dynasty

Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, stringed instruments have been widely used (such as the Hezheng), and new instruments have been produced, such as the first flute, the Qiang flute and the Xiao tube, the stringed instruments such as the Huluqin and the Huqin, and the ponytail Huqin popular in the northwest border areas.

6. Yuan Dynasty

The wars at home and abroad at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty objectively caused cultural exchanges between various ethnic groups in China and between China and foreign countries. During this period, new musical instruments appeared, such as Sanxian, Huobu, 72-stringed Pipa, Yugu, Zhang Yun,, and so on.

7. Ming and Qing Dynasties

Musical instruments have been greatly developed and concentrated, especially stringed instruments such as erhu, jinghu, banhu, Ma Touqin, suona and other reed instruments. Sheng and Guqin play an important role in national music because of the prosperity of retro forces and their classical value.

Extended data

Musical instrument history:

Musical instrument is one of the civilized wealth that human beings have possessed as early as primitive times. There are many legends and myths about the origin of musical instruments, which have long been regarded as the origin and development of musical instruments.

For example, many ancient books in China recorded that "Nu Wa played the flute", "Nu Wa Sheng", "Fu Chui the flute", "Fu Harp", "You Zhou rang the bell", "Ling Lun went to Kunlun Mountain to collect bamboo as a flute" and "The Yellow Emperor ordered Ling Lun.

All this happened four or five thousand years ago BC, and it was not yet or just entered the bronze age, so it was impossible to have products with complicated processes such as spring and bell casting. People at that time may have some ideas about absolute pitch, but they don't know much about music. Complex melodic instruments like those mentioned above can't have appeared so early.

Whether those legendary characters really exist is still in doubt in history. Musical instruments are real, but no one can create such a perfect instrument at once. Musical instruments are gradually evolving.

There is no doubt that China is the earliest musical instrument in the world. According to research, in ancient times (about 2 1 century BC), there were some earth drums, chimes, bone flutes, lusheng and cymbals in China.

There may also be lingguan, late and prosperous. In Zhixia Shang Dynasty (2 1 century BC to1century BC), apart from the development of musical instruments, such as chime, pitch chime, fu, Yan (big flute) and sheng, the concept of pitch interval was very shallow.

By the Zhou dynasty, there were about 70 recorded musical instruments (with the same name), and there were musical instruments classified by "eight tones", as well as plucked instruments such as Qin and Qin.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments