The flat drum (pinyin: Biǎn gǔ) is a percussion instrument, also known as the battle drum. It was used in religious music and folk weddings in the past, and is now used in folk musical ensembles, dances, lantern festivals, acrobatic troupes, and mass gongs and drums. Widely popular in Jilin Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and other Korean inhabited areas. It is Mongolian, Tibetan, Korean, Manchu, Naxi, Yi, Miao, Han and other ethnic groups who strike the membrane and sound. The flat drum is round, with a wooden frame, covered with sheepskin or cowhide on both sides, and tightened with ropes. The diameter of the drum surface is 37 to 45 cm.
Eight-tone drum (pinyin: Bā yīn gǔ), also known as the Eight Immortals Drum. Popular in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guixi Longlin Autonomous County, Xilin County and the border of Guizhou and Guizhou. It is the Zhuang and Gelao musical instruments. Named for its use in the folk instrumental ensemble eight bands. The Zhuang language is called Zhongyi, which means smaller drum.
The ring drum (pinyin: Huán gǔ) is a musical instrument of the Hui nationality. Popular in Ningxia, Gansu and other provinces. Available in single-sided and double-sided.
Wooden stick qin (pinyin: mu gun qin) is a percussion instrument of the Gaoshan people, and the Amei tribe is called Kuokang. Popular in central Taiwan Province.
The Jino bamboo tube is a percussion instrument of the Jino people, also known as Qike. Popular in Jinghong County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. The Jino people love to hunt, and they sing to celebrate after hunting. When singing, the accompaniment is to strike bamboo tubes with different pitches, which is also called "bamboo tube tune". The tunes are: walking tune, sung on the way home from hunting; home tune, sung when returning home and inviting neighbors to share.
Wangdu (pinyin: Wāng dōu), also known as yellow mud drum, long drum and horizontal drum. The Yao ethnic group is a mixed percussion instrument. It is popular in Liannan Yao Autonomous County of Guangdong Province and other places. Originating from the ancient slender waist drum, it has been widely circulated among the people during the Southern Song Dynasty.
Milk cymbals (Pinyin: Rǔ bó), Zhuang, Miao, Yao, Mulao, Jing, Yi, Shui, Gelao, Qiang, Han and other ethnic groups strike each other as a body sounding instrument. Made of brass. Bowl-shaped and unique in shape, it is a large brass cymbal with a breast-shaped cymbal body.
Jupiter (pinyin: Gōu diào) is a kind of bronze percussion instrument in Wuyue area in ancient times. Generally a set consists of several pieces. The Nanyue King Museum in Guangzhou has a set of bronze sentences from the Western Han Dynasty.
Yao nationality bamboo tube (pinyin: Yáozú zhútǒng), also known as bamboo tube piano. It is the Yao nationality's falling body sounding instrument. Popular in Shanglin County and other places in the central part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Reba Ling (pinyin: Rè bā líng), Tibetan called Reba Si, Han people called Reba Ling, Bian Ling. Popular in Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Qinghai, Gansu and other provinces. The height of the bell is 3 cm, the wall of the bell is smaller and the cymbal is slightly thicker. The bulge in the center of the disc is called the top of the bell, and a small hole is drilled. One section of the belt is a bell handle, and the end of the handle is decorated with a red ribbon.
Dance to (Pinyin: Dǎo dào) is a musical instrument played by the Kemu people. According to the translation, it is called bamboo tuning fork. It is popular in the areas where Kemu people live in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Among the Kemu people, women are particularly fond of them, and they often play while walking or finishing work. Every New Year or festive festival, the Kemu girls often gather together and dance while playing. The dance is called "dance to dance". Solo pieces include "Girls Like Tune" and so on.
Zhuzuigu (Pinyin: Zhū zuǐ gǔ) is a Zhuang nationality musical instrument. Named because the drum is shaped like a pig's mouth. It is popular in Xincheng County in the central part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. When playing, the drum is placed on a wooden frame and played with a double chime, with a high-pitched and sharp sound. It is used for the accompaniment of Zhuang silk string opera, like the bangu in the Peking Opera band.
Rudong (Pinyin: Rú dōng) is a musical instrument used by the Yao people to strike the membrane. In Yao language, "ru" means drum, "dong" means small, and "rudong" means small drum. It is popular in Fangcheng Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Dama (pinyin: Dá mǎ), also known as Ga'a, is a Tibetan musical instrument. Popular in Tibet Lhasa, Shigatse, Qamdo, Qinghai Yushu, Sichuan Ganzi, Batang and other places in Tibetan court song and dance bands and Tibetan Buddhist monasteries.
Sherpa drum (pinyin: Xià ěr bā gǔ), a musical instrument used by the Sherpa people of the Tibetan branch to slap the membrane. Popular in Nyalam County, Shigatse, Tibet.
Yunban (pinyin: yun ban) belongs to the percussion instrument category among the body-sounding instruments. It is a percussion instrument of the Dai, Brown, De'ang, Achang and other ethnic groups. In the Dai language, it is called Gan, Lagan, Sister Borrowing, and Delivery. The local Han people call it Yunban, Yunqing, Yunban, and copper bells. Popular in Xishuangbanna, Dehong, Lincang and other areas in Yunnan Province.
The gong (pinyin: máng luó) is also known as the winter gong. In the Yunnan Dai folk song "Heaven on Earth", it is described as follows: "The Dai family gathered on the banks of the Lancang River, and the gongs were beating loudly." In "Selected Chinese Folk Tales: The Little Carpenter", there is also a "he turned angrily." Back at the palace, I banged countless gongs."
Zhuang ethnic labor (pinyin: Zhuàngzú zhǒng láo), round pier shape. It is popular in the vast rural areas of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province. The drum is placed on the ground, the double chimes are played, and the sound is loud. Often used in festival gong and drum ensembles or as accompaniment for lion and dragon dances.
Toli [Toli], Chinese translated as "bronze mirror". The so-called "mirror" of the bronze mirror is not the mirror used in ancient times, but refers to the disc-shaped bronze utensils hanging on the shaman's body that twist and make a "jing dong" sound, or are lifted and danced in the hand. Its function is similar to that of Xisha, and it is used for "suppressing demons and exorcising evil spirits".
Peng cup (pinyin: Pèng zhōng), also known as ping bell, is a Mongolian percussion instrument. Popular in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Made of copper, it is shaped like a small cymbal, with a diameter of 7.6 and a thickness of 0.6 cm. Consists of two sides. The middle of the cup surface is convex and hemispherical, and there is a small hole in the center of the ball, which can be set with a ring-tie copper chain, red silk, cloth belt, etc., to connect the two small cups together. Hit the sound with one hand on each side. The bump cup always hits with each eye, twice per eye.
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