From the earliest playable musical instruments to their roles in a modern four-section orchestra, Chinese traditional instruments and their 8,000-year history explained.

The ‘Chinese bagpipes’ and sheng are wind instruments with a bottle gourd for a base and bamboo pipes with finger holes used to play notes. The sheng inspired the invention of two Western ...

A guqin master provides hands-on instruction to a student on the playing techniques of this ancient Chinese instrument. Photo: VCG. Editor's Note: The pursuit of beauty has been a ...

Guqin, xun, flute and xiao, four major traditional Chinese musical instruments, were highlighted during the ongoing 2022 Gateway to Arts Summer Festival's summer camp.

The gimmicky videos have helped Tian, an accomplished player of the banhu, a Chinese instrument similar to a fiddle, accumulate over 30,000 followers on the video-sharing site Bilibili.But he doesn’t ...

"Traditional Chinese musical instruments do more than just sound beautiful. They are 'speakers' of the nation's cultural memories, be it allusions from ancient text or the whispered folktales of ...

"Traditional Chinese musical instruments do more than just sound beautiful. They are 'speakers' of the nation's cultural memories, be it allusions from ancient text or the whispered folktales of ...