The pictographic symbol for "bamboo" was found on the ... Bamboo is indispensable to many traditional Chinese musical instruments, including the flute, sheng, zheng, jinghu, erhu and banhu.

This is the eighth 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 ...

We look at China's earliest musical instruments, how Chinese instruments fall into eight categories, and the modern ...

To the Chinese people, bamboo is a symbol of virtue ... It was used for food, clothing, housing, transportation, music instruments and even weapons. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 ...