Matouqin is a two-string stringed instrument with a trapezoidal body and a handle carved into the shape of a horse's head. It is a favorite musical instrument of the Mongolian people. The matouqin (mǎ tóu qín) is a Mongolian folk stringed musical instrument. Mongolian called "Chor". The body is made of wood, about one meter long, and has two strings. The sound box is trapezoidal. The sound is mellow, low back and low volume. According to legend, a shepherd remembered the dead pony, took its leg bones as columns, skulls as tubes, tail hairs as bowstrings, made a two-string qin, and carved a horse head in the shape of a pony and mounted it on the top of the qin handle, so as to obtain name. Guo Xiaochuan's poem "The King of the Open Hearth Tackling Steel": "People in the pastoral areas heard that the steel flower sprayed, and the matouqin was played in the yurt."

The wood of matouqin is colored wood (maple, also called five-pointed maple). No matter how good the matouqin is, her main wood is colored wood. But there are many kinds of colored wood, and there are four kinds of commonly used matouqin wood: southern common colored wood, northeast common colored wood and northeast colored wood.

Southern-colored wood (common-colored wood and patterned wood) is soft but white due to its fast growth rate. The appearance of the piano made with it is relatively white (there is no colored part), but the sound quality is not very ideal. The high-end matouqin does not use southern materials.

Northern colored wood (ordinary colored wood and patterned wood), the general growth time is hundreds of years (diameter is more than 45CM, and some reach 80CM), forming hard wood in the cold and long years, but the harsh climate makes the annual rings or colors have different colors. inconsistent characteristics. The matouqin made with it has a long and rich tone, especially the matouqin made of northeast colored wood has a beautiful appearance and is a treasure of the matouqin.

Color wood (also called tiger skin color wood) is a high-grade wood for musical instruments, especially Northeast color wood is the best wood for matouqin. The surface of the matouqin made of it has a three-dimensional effect and is extremely noble. But he has no direct effect on the sound quality.