Chinese History and Culture
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 The history of inkstone (yàn 砚) goes back to over 5,000 years ago. There is a lot of archeological evidence that Chinese used inkstone for grinding ink. There was a stone inkstone found in a 5,000-year-old archeological site in Jiazhai of Shanxi Province.
As one of the essential tool of ink brush painting, She inkstone, produced in Anhui Province (ān huī shěng 安徽省) in East China, is one of the most sought collector's item among the literati and elite for thousands of years. It is one of the Four Great Inkstones in Chinese history.
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 Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is dominated by Uighurs, Turkic people related to others from Central Asia. There is much variation in the music of Xinjiang, including unique regional differences in Ili, Kashi, Hotan and Aksu. The southern area includes the simple songs of Hotan, the dance-oriented music of the Kuga and the complexly rhythmic songs of the Kashgar. Ili has perhaps the most well-known musical tradition in Xinjiang, including a number of emotional tunes that are narrative in form.The Uighurs' best-known musical form is the On Ikki Muqam, a complex suite of twelve sections related to Uzbekistan| and Tajikistan forms. These complex symphonies vary wildly between suites in the same muqam, and are built on a seven-note scale. Instruments typically include dap (a drum), dulcimers, fiddles and lutes; performers have some space for personal embellishments, especially in the percussion. However, there is much variation on the number and kind of instruments used in the
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The top of the neck of the horse-headed stringed instrument is carved in the shape of a horse's head, hence the name, and it is the representative instrument of the horse-riding Mongolian people. The sound box is trapezoid in shape, and decorated with ethnic motifs. The instrument has two strings with a four-octave range, and it is played with a horsetail-hair bow on the outside of the strings. Double tones can be played on it.
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There are various kinds of musical instruments in the world, including Chinese musical instruments, western musical instruments, special instruments, wind instruments, stringed instruments, and so on. Among them, the earliest musical instrument is bone flute.
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A girl is playing Qing, the Warring States Period (475-221BC) Qing (musical stone) was a kind of stone/jade percussion instrument in ancient China. It was not only a kind of musical instrument, but also the symbol of power and status. Commonly, Qing was composed of varied stones .
Historical records show that Qing originated from stone tools used in daily life by Chinese ancestors. During their laboring, theyfound that these tools could produce pleasant sounds and therefore used them as musical instruments for entertainment.
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