This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...

Candles are lit, incense sticks burn and percussion instruments of various sizes and shapes are lying on the table. Feng Mantian, player of the ruan, a traditional Chinese plucked, stringed instrument ...

The growing interest in China globally has led to a boom in culture exchanges, and now a new initiative aims to take the country's traditional music to foreign audiences.Chen Nan reports. Visitors to ...

“Wild Geese Descending Onto the Sand” is one of the most famous pieces of music ever composed for the guqin, a traditional Chinese stringed instrument. Meant to evoke the sound of geese flying by the ...

When Zheng Ruzhong, a music teacher, visited the Mogao Caves in Gansu province in 1986 he was amazed by the numerous murals of the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute. More than 600 images of the ...

Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...