Yue Chu (pinyin: Yuè chǔ) is a musical instrument of the Gaoshan people, which is popular all over Taiwan Province. It evolved from a wooden pestle, a tool for pounding rice at first. It is often made of hardwoods such as red camphor wood, which is in the shape of a long rod with two thick ends and a thin middle. The specifications are different, and the size and length are different. Each one makes a sound, and more than 5 can be combined into a song.
Shuizu drum (pinyin: Shuǐzú dàgǔ), cylindrical in shape, is popular all over Guizhou Province. It is a unique membrane percussion instrument for aquariums.
Jianggu (pinyin: Jiāng gǔ) is a Zhuang musical instrument. It is popular in Debao and Jingxi areas in the west of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The ginger drum has fine selection of materials, high requirements for production skills, simple appearance, generous shape, and rich national characteristics in decoration. It is not only an accompaniment musical instrument for opera, but also an exquisite handicraft, which has dual value of practical and ornamental.
Huozhe (pinyin: huǒ zhě) is a musical instrument of the Yi and Buyi ethnic groups. In Yi language, it is called fire. The Bouyei people call it the light. It is popular in Weining, Hezhang, Bijie, Shuicheng, Nayong, Qianxi, Panxian and other Yi areas in the northwest of Guizhou Province, and in Xingyi and Zhenfeng in the Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of southwestern Guizhou.
Nagra (pinyin: Nà gélā) was called Nagara and Nugula in the historical records of the Qing Dynasty. Because the drum body is made of iron, the Han people call it iron drum, and it is also known as Dongba. Popular in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
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.
Double-sided drum (pinyin: Shuāng miàn gǔ), also known as double-sided drum. Dai people's mixed percussion-membrane musical instruments. The Dai language is called Guangsa, Guangbian and Guangbang. Popular in Yunnan Province Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and other places. Playing double-sided drums varies by region.
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.
Bench (pinyin: Bǎndèng) is a musical instrument of the Miao people. Popular in Xingren, Xingyi, Zhenfeng, Leishan, Huangping and other places in Guizhou Province. Most of them are made of hard wood. The surface of the stool is generally 22 cm to 30 cm in length and 12 cm to 15 cm in width. There are various styles of legs, and the height of the stool is about 20 cm. There is a crossbar between the legs of the stool, which can be held by hand. Two for one pair.
Bamboo pounding tube (pinyin: zhú dǎo tǒng) belongs to the Gaoshan people’s falling body sounding instrument. In Gaoshan language, it is called pagoda, which means bamboo. Popular in Taiwan Province. Bamboo tamping tube, developed from water-filled utensils, is a folk musical instrument created by the people of the Gaoshan Shao tribe. In October 1980, in the National Ethnic Minority Arts Festival, the Fujian delegation used this set of bamboo tamping tubes to participate in the performance of the Gaoshan folk song and dance "Pestle Music" with Taiwanese local characteristics. The sky shows the night scene of Sun Moon Lake, the pestle sings euphemistically, and the girls sing and dance. The round and bright sound of bamboo pounding, the crisp and melodious sound of wood leaves, accompanied by the vigorous music of the pestle, the girls danced lightly to the brisk rhythm, taking the audience to the banks of Sun Moon Lake and the foot of Ali Mountain. The "Pestle Music" played with a music pestle and a bamboo pounding tube, which is simple, fresh and poetic, left a deep impression on people.
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.
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.
Bamboo qin (pinyin: ZhúTǒngQín) Bamboo qin is a percussion stringed musical instrument with a long history in my country, with a history of more than 2,700 years. like. However, because it was spread in remote mountains and villages, there was no historical record, and there was no record until the Ming Dynasty.
Huangnigu (pinyin: Huáng ní gǔ) belongs to a kind of long drum, and is a folk musical instrument loved by the Yao people living on Dayao Mountain. The most special thing about this kind of drum is to use the yellow mud unique to Dayao Mountain to paste the drum surface to set the drum sound, so people call it yellow mud drum. The drum surface that has been pasted with yellow mud is thicker and thicker due to its wetness. When struck, it emits a double-sounding sound of "empty center, empty center", which is particularly loud and beautiful, and the sound travels miles away. The yellow mud drum is made of soft, tough and lightweight paulownia wood with hollow ends. There are male and female drums. The male drum has a long waist, the female drum has a short waist, and both ends of the drum head are trumpet-shaped.
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".
The Yao nationality drum (pinyin: Yáozú dàgǔ) is cylindrical in shape. Popular in Nandan, Tianlin and other places in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The shape varies from place to place. The big drums in the areas of Lihu and Yaozhai in Nandan County are mostly hollowed out with a whole section of camphor wood as the drum frame. The height is 90 cm to 100 cm, and the lower end is open.
The Miao Monkey Drum (Pinyin: Miáozú hóu gǔ), called Gan Na in Miao language, is a unique musical instrument of the Miao people. It is named after the accompaniment "Monkey Dance". Also called flower drum. In the old days, shamans used to falsely call it "barbaric drums". Popular in the Miao areas of Guizhou, Hunan and other provinces. Monkey drums are used in festivals such as the Miao people's cattle-eating feasts, spring tours in the first month and autumn festivals and other occasions, and the scenes are lively and lively.
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.
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.
Saitu (pinyin: Sāi tǔ) is a musical instrument unique to the Jino people. It is made by hollowing out a piece of red hair tree log, and it is cylindrical. Specifications vary. Both ends of the drum frame are covered with untreated hairy yellow cowhide, the diameter of the drum surface is 40 cm to 80 cm, the height of the drum frame is 70 cm to 120 cm, and the thickness of the drum wall is 3 cm to 5 cm. Twelve or sixteen square wooden sticks hold the drumhead around its edges. The wooden stick is 30 cm long, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, and the thickest part is 4 cm square.