In the early 1950s, Xinjiang Uyghur musicians cooperated with Uyghur musical instrument makers from Urumqi Yiti Boke Musical Instrument Factory, and began to reform Sanxian Duolangaijie. The earliest is to increase the main strings to four and the steel wire resonance strings to 11. The main strings are tuned as: g, d1, a1, and e2, and the resonance strings are tuned as: c, d, e, ...

There is such a beautiful legend circulating in the folk about the origin of the name of the Aijie musical instrument. A long time ago, the merchants on the Silk Road were very good at doing business. They were very active in the Tang Dynasty and were called "Hu people". The so-called huqin is the qin brought by the Hu people from far away Persia. They rode camels all the way, mis...