Chinese traditional music

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Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments

Er-hu ( 二胡 ) - two-stringed fiddle, it is known as the Chinese violin in the West. Er-hu was a music instrument in China for more than a thousand year.

Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments

Pi-pa ( 琵琶 ) – “pear-shaped fretted lute with 4 or 5 strings, Plucked Instrument, Qin Dynasty (221 - 206 BCE) . It is one of the most popular Chinese instruments and has been played for nearly two thousand years in China.”

Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments

Gu-Zheng ( 古箏 ) – “16-26 stringed zither with movable bridges. It belongs to the zither family of string instruments. The Guzheng came from a traditional Chinese musical instrument called Zheng. Guzheng was a new instrument of China that evolved from Zheng.”

Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments

Flute ( 箫 ) - transverse bamboo flute is known as Chinese Bamboo Flute, and it is classified as the woodwind instrument in the West. It is widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera, and the modern Chinese orchesta.

Moon Reflected on Second Spring (二泉映月)

• Best Erhu Masterpiece Ever .• This piece of music is full of

heart-breaking sorrowness. • The blind musician – Ahbing, is

an itinerant street performer. He had a very complicated life and suffered from WWII, poverty, disease and repression from corrupted authorities in the old China.

Moonlit River in Spring( 春江花月夜 )

• string and woodwind ensemble that wins universal praise. Originally named Music at Sunset Time, it was a traditional lute music recomposed into an orchestral music in 1925.

• It consists of ten sections depicting the terrestrial beautiful scene on a bright day with its mellow rhythm and peaceful sentiment

High Mountains and Flowing Water( 高山流水 )

• The well known pieces for guzheng. One of ten best ancient Chinese music pieces. • The music was composed by Boya (伯牙 ) before 221 BC.• There is a legendary friendship between

Boya and Ziqi• It represents cherished friendship in

Chinese culture. It also conveys the same idea, the magnificence of high mountains and the power of moving water.

The Smiling, Pround Wanderer( 笑傲江湖 )

• The term "Xiaoao Jianghu" (笑傲江湖 ) means to live a carefree life in a mundane world of strife.

• An alternative English title is State of Divinity.