In the legends about ancient music, some ancient musical instruments are mentioned, including drums, chimes, chimes, flutes, pipes, stingers, sheng, harp and harp. These records inevitably have some incidental elements, but judging from the original musical instruments found in some ancient cultural relics today, many of them have the possibility of primitive times.

China music has a long history. According to the ancient human fossils found in Yuanmou and other places in Yunnan, ancient humans have been working, living and reproducing on the land of China since about 6,543,800 years ago. When the earliest humans began to make primitive tools and work collectively, primitive music sprouted in their labor rhythm and voice.

Legends about ancient music in ancient literature can be roughly divided into two categories: one is ancient music named after a certain family, such as the music of Zhu Xiang, Ge and Yi Yi; Second, the ancient music of Huangdi, Zhuan Xu, Yaodi, Shun Di, etc. was regarded as ancient emperors.

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The main contents of China ancient music:

The ancient music in China includes the music of primitive society (about 2 1 century BC), slave society (about 2 1 century BC ~ 475 BC) and feudal society (475 BC ~ 65438 BC+0840 AD).

It is divided into six sections: ancient music (that is, the music of primitive society); Music from Xia, Shang, Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn Period (that is, the music of slave society); Music of the Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties (hereinafter all music of feudal society); Music from the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty, the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties; Song and Yuan music; Music of Ming and Qing dynasties.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Ancient Music