Today, I would like to talk with you about the current situation of the development of national musical instruments, from three aspects.

(1) Shocked by Western musical instruments

As the Opium War opened the door of our country, in addition to the invasion of capitalism, Western culture also broke into China, including Western musical instruments. For a long time, the status of Chinese national musical instruments in people's hearts has gradually been replaced by Western musical instruments, and some people's aesthetics and choices have also changed. It can be said that the impact of Western musical instruments on our country's traditional national musical instruments is very important big.

And this can be clearly reflected in music education. There are far more people who choose to learn Western musical instruments such as piano and violin than those who learn traditional Chinese musical instruments. Even in some musical instrument training institutions, there are no ethnic musical instruments. This also makes many people's aesthetics of musical instruments more and more westernized, resulting in more and more neglect of traditional national musical instruments in our country, and even some musical instruments are subject to people's westernization reform, for example, in order to reduce the so-called noise in the performance of Western musical instruments, Reforming the structure of traditional Chinese national musical instruments, adding a violin-like fingerboard to the huqin, and using other materials to replace the python skin on the erhu qin barrel. Due to changes in the shape and production materials, the huqin lacks flexibility and elasticity. The sound quality is more harsh, and the service life of the traditional huqin is also quite different.

These changes have lost the unique texture and spirituality of the musical instrument itself, and in fact have made the traditional musical instrument in our country lose its own cultural connotation. After thousands of years of precipitation, my country's traditional national musical instruments have a unique charm and mature background in both the way of playing and the tone of their own.

(2) Changes in the traditional living environment

In ancient Chinese society, the ritual music system was very popular, and the "music" included the instrumental music played. The emergence and development of traditional national instrumental music in my country is closely related to the development of civilization in ancient my country's farming society. Especially in the farming society, feudal rituals such as clan relations, totem beliefs, and regional divisions are closely related to the production of traditional national musical instruments. In addition, my country was in a closed state for a long time in ancient times, and national musical instruments had ample room for development. In the blink of an eye, information technology has developed rapidly, and cultures of various countries are constantly communicating and colliding. Especially in the aspect of cultural dissemination, great changes have taken place. These have a great impact on the development of traditional national musical instruments, which has led to the development of national musical instruments in modern society. The development space becomes narrow. In order to develop national musical instruments in modern society, it needs to adapt to the changes of this era.

(3) Lack of national instrumental music education

In modern society, many people believe that traditional musical instruments are no longer suitable for this era. They are not only weak in sound and monotonous in performance, but also lack musical expression and enjoyment.

It can be seen that in modern society, there are still many deficiencies in the education of national musical instruments in our country, which are mainly manifested in: 1. As an art subject, national musical instruments have not entered colleges and universities, and the road to popularization and modernization is not long. Therefore, , There are few schools of national instrumental music education in our country, and there is very little education for national musical instruments; 2. The national instrumental music education is not deep enough. At present, the national instrumental music education in our country mostly appears in the music majors of colleges and universities, and the students' learning of national musical instruments is not enough. In-depth, biased towards the study of performance skills, ignoring the cultural connotation behind the national musical instruments. These have also caused many people in modern society to have a little understanding of national musical instruments, and cannot see the history and culture carried by the musical instrument itself through its surface, which has greatly hindered the development of national musical instruments.