The cymbal (pinyin: Bó) is a percussion instrument with no fixed pitch. Bronze, with a bulge in the center, they are made of two round copper plates that strike each other. It is usually played together with gongs and drums to form a gong and drum team. Chinese cymbals also appear in Western music, but their size is usually less than 11 cm.

It is used in both Chinese and foreign bands. In ancient China, copper cymbals, copper cymbals or copper plates and cymbals were collectively referred to as cymbals. Cymbals and cymbals are two musical instruments that are similar in shape but slightly different. Both are made of copper, round metal plates, with a raised hemispherical part in the middle called a bowl or cap. There are two pieces per pair, and the sound will be heard in phase. Usually 30 to 50 cm in diameter. The difference between a cymbal and a cymbal is that the bowl of the cymbal is smaller, the pronunciation is louder, and the reverberation is longer; the bowl of the cymbal is larger, the pronunciation is thicker, and the reverberation is shorter. Cymbals and cymbals are often used in conjunction with folks to accompany folk wind and percussion music and operas. In addition to the Han people, cymbals are also popular among many ethnic minorities.

There are three ways to play cymbals, one is hammering, that is, a soft mallet is used to strike one of them, and the length of the sound is controlled by the performance, and the other is smearing, that is, two cymbals are rubbed together to make a sound, and also There is a kind of impact, that is, two cymbals hit each other hard to make a loud sound. This method is widely used, not only used by military bands and brass bands, but also used by some waist drum teams.