As a national quintessence, China music has been passed down to this day. What are the representative musical instruments in ancient China?

Our national music is the quintessence of our country. China is one of the four ancient civilizations. In ancient times, there were many musical instruments that could represent our traditional music in China.

First of all, I think we have to mention our musical instrument-drum. It has a history of more than 4,000 years and has a very high position in ancient drums.

In war and sacrifice, drums play a great role and can boost morale, because the drums are magnificent and can arouse the morale of soldiers and win the war. In the battle of the Yellow Emperor Chiyou conquering Zhuolu, "The Yellow Emperor killed the shovel, took its skin as a drum and heard 500 stories", which shows the status of the drum.

Pipa is also one of our national quintessence instruments, known as the king of plucked instruments. It appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and then improved continuously. From the pipa, we can see that the pipa appeared in ordinary people's lives. Later, many famous songs were played with the pipa, such as "House of Flying Daggers", "Overlord Dismantling Armor" and "Show Complaint". Over the years, with the passage of time, the techniques have continued.

Similarly, the status of guzheng is also very high. It first appeared in the Warring States period and has a history of thousands of years. Now guzheng art has also entered our second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

As one of the four ancient civilizations, China has too many representative musical instruments. When you see these instruments, you seem to think of our motherland.

We also hope that someone can carry forward our musical instrument tradition and let our national music be passed down as our national quintessence forever!