It has been revived in the 20th century as a double bridge harp the modern version of the instrument does not resemble the ancient one, but its shape is similar to Western concert harps. The konghou became extinct sometime in the Ming Dynasty. They were hung in a wooden frame and struck with a mallet. These sets of chime bells were used as polyphonic musical instruments and some of these bells have been dated at between 2,000 to 3,600 years old. Most dizi are made of bamboo, which explains why dizi are sometimes known by simple names such as Chinese bamboo flute.īianzhong is an ancient Chinese musical instrument consisting of a set of bronze bells, played melodically. The dizi is a major Chinese musical instrument, and is widely used in many genres of Chinese folk music, as well as Chinese opera, and the modern Chinese orchestra. The Xiao is a very ancient Chinese instrument usually thought to have developed from a simple end-blown flute used by the Qiang people of Southwest China in ancient period. The Xiao is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute. The main instruments of Ancient Chinese Music are traditional Chinese instruments.Įrhu is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a Southern Fiddle, and sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle. Since 2013, with the rise of Internet, many original ancient Chinese music teams were formed and more and more original ancient Chinese ancient music were created. The whole piece of music is more melodious and dreamy, and it seems to be back to those antique scenes in the novel.Īncient Chinese Music initial is used as background music of some Chinese mythical game such as Chinese Paladin: Sword and Fairy, etc. Ancient Chinese Music has its unique aesthetic style. It’s totally different from the metallic feeling of rock music and heavy feeling of classical music. The characteristics of ancient Chinese music include classical and elegant lyrics, poetic words, neat and beautiful melody and multi-ethnic musical instruments. The Ancient Chinese Music is a new music style occurred in 21 st century.