{"id":7904,"date":"2017-04-28T09:29:44","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T07:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/?p=7904"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T07:29:44","slug":"traditional-chinese-musical-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/en\/traditional-chinese-musical-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Chinese Musical Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7906 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/1.-guzheng_instrumento-chino-464x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/1.-guzheng_instrumento-chino-464x300.jpg 464w, https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/1.-guzheng_instrumento-chino.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You might know many musical instruments, but which one do you like best? Can you tell the instruments\u2019 names just by listening to the music? And what do you know about Chinese musical instruments? What do they sound like?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7907 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/2.-hulusi.-instrumento-chino-321x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"321\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/2.-hulusi.-instrumento-chino-321x300.jpg 321w, https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/2.-hulusi.-instrumento-chino-696x651.jpg 696w, https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/2.-hulusi.-instrumento-chino-449x420.jpg 449w, https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/2.-hulusi.-instrumento-chino.jpg 844w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chinese musical instruments can trace their roots to several thousand years ago. These musical instruments do not only entertain people but they also play an important role in traditional Chinese culture. The\u201cunity of man and nature\u201dis one of the most important concepts in China; so many Chinese instruments imitate the sounds from humans or the nature.<\/p>\n<p>Ancient Chinese believed that music could purify people&#8217;s minds. More than 3,000 years ago, ancient China had some 70 types of musical instruments. The royal family and aristocrats had their own orchestra. For them, music was also a way to display their power, position and taste, and to be distinguished from common people. However, as music was never limited to the upper social class, the musical trend gradually turned from solemnity to entertaining. Huge and complex instruments like the bronze chimes gave way to more lively and easy-play wind and reed instruments. The Tang Dynasty, one of the strongest and most prosperous empires in Chinese history, was a golden age for musical development. Many of the Tang emperors were musicians or composers themselves. With frequent cultural exchanges with other cultures, a large number of exotic instruments were introduced, altered and finally adopted into the family of Chinese traditional instruments.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7908 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/3.-pipa-instrumento-chino-450x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/3.-pipa-instrumento-chino-450x300.png 450w, https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2017\/04\/3.-pipa-instrumento-chino.png 475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chinese traditional musical instruments can be mainly classified into three categories: string, wind and percussion.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many traditional musical instruments of China, the most popular nowadays include the stringed instruments called erhu, pipa, guzheng, and the dizi flutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might know many musical instruments, but which one do you like best? 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These musical instruments do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":7908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[143,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-7904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-other-events","8":"tag-chinese","9":"tag-music"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Traditional Chinese Musical Instrument - Campus Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Traditional Chinese Musical Instrument - Campus Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You might know many musical instruments, but which one do you like best? 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