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  2. Bianqing - Wikipedia

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    It can rotate the palace and play a variety of music. The bianqing has always played an important role in traditional Chinese music. In ancient times, it was used for large ceremonies and sacrifices. In modern times, it appears more and more in the performance in people's vision. bianqing, Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.

  3. Ritual and music system - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese ritual and music system (Chinese: 礼乐制度; pinyin: Lǐ yuè zhìdù) is a social system that originated in the Zhou dynasty to maintain the social order. [1] Together with the patriarchal system , it constituted the social system of the entire ancient China and had a great influence on the politics, culture, art and thought of ...

  4. Chinese musicology - Wikipedia

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    In particular, he translated the Chinese scholar Li Guangdi's Guyue Jingzhuan (古乐经传, Interpretation of Ancient Chinese Music Classics) which aroused great interest among the Enlightenment pioneers in Europe at the time and brought more people to the field of Chinese music. [1] The sheng (笙), a Chinese free-reed mouth organ, was ...

  5. Music of China - Wikipedia

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    The oldest extant written Chinese music is "Youlan" (幽蘭) or the Solitary Orchid, composed during the 6th or 7th century, but has also been attributed to Confucius. The first major well-documented flowering of Chinese music was for the qin during the Tang dynasty (618-907AD), though the qin is known to have been played since before the Han ...

  6. Yayue - Wikipedia

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    Yayue (Chinese: 雅樂; lit. 'elegant music') was a form of classical music and dance performed at the royal court and temples in ancient China. The basic conventions of yayue were established in the Western Zhou.

  7. Ling Lun - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese mythology, Ling Lun is said to have created bamboo flutes which made the sounds of many birds, including the mythical phoenix. "In this way, Ling Lun invented the five notes of the ancient Chinese five-tone scale (gong, shang, jiao, zhi, and yu, which is equivalent to 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6 in numbered musical notation or do, re, mi, sol, and la in western solfeggio) and the eight sounds ...

  8. Timeline of Chinese music - Wikipedia

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    People's Republic of China: Baak Doi leaves China in 1952 and relocates to Hong Kong. Mao Zedong and CCP evolved patriotic music into revolutionary music. Hong Kong: Continuation of Shidaiqu in Hong Kong. Republic of China / Taiwan: Development of Taiwanese mandopop. Native Hokkien pop phased out by Kuomintang in favor of mandopop.

  9. Stringed music in China - Wikipedia

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    Stringed music is prominent in China, especially in the Jiangnan region, where it is the name of all the instruments made from wood and string. This form of performance started from the Jin dynasty (266–420). [citation needed] The most common Chinese stringed instruments are the guqin, zheng, erhu, and pipa. These instruments were developed ...