Morin Khuur

The Morin Khuur is a two-stringed stringed instrument with a trapezoidal body and a handle carved into the shape of a horse's head. It is a favorite instrument of the Mongolian people. The morinouqin is a Mongolian folk stringed instrument. It is called "Chaoer" in Mongolian. The body of the piano is made of wood, about one meter long, and has two strings. The sound box is trapezoidal, with a round sound, low and low volume, and a weak volume. Legend has it that a shepherd remembered his dead pony and made a two-stringed qin using its leg bones as pillars, its skull as a tube, and its tail hair as a bow string. He also carved a horse head in the shape of a pony and mounted it on the top of the qin handle. name.

The Morin Qin is a stringed instrument of the Mongolian ethnic minority in China. It is named after the horse head carved on the top of the piano rod. The morinouqin has a long history and evolved from the stringed instrument Xiqin in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It has been spread among the people since the time of Genghis Khan. It was used in palace bands during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

The Morin Khuur is a representative musical instrument of the Mongolian nation. It not only occupies a place in the family of musical instruments in China and the world, but is also an instrument favored by folk artists and herdsmen. The music played by the Morin Khuur is deep, rough and exciting. It reflects the production, life and grassland style of the Mongolian nation.

From the forest hunting culture period to the early steppe nomadic culture, the musical instruments used by the Mongolians were not morinouqin, but plucked instruments such as Huobisi and Tobshur, which were mostly used for entertainment singing and dancing and dance accompaniment . Judging from the records in "Secret History of Mongolia" and "History of the Yuan Dynasty", from the period of Genghis Khan to Kublai Khan, the Mongolian national musical instruments were still mainly plucked instruments. Mongolian soldiers and herdsmen in the Yuan Dynasty were good at playing fire, and they liked to dance collective step songs. . After the rapid development of grassland nomadic music, the Morinouqin, a stringed instrument, emerged and became widely popular. It eventually replaced the plucked instrument and became the Mongolian folk instrument with the most grassland characteristics. Obviously, stringed instruments replaced plucked instruments and Huobisi gradually declined, so Morinouqin naturally became the protagonist of Mongolian musical instruments.

After many years of inheritance, Morin Qin has also undergone many reforms with the development of the times. At the beginning of the 21st century, the form of morinouqur playing also gradually changed, from the previous dull performance to the art of visual expression.

After years of improvement, a perfect performance form has gradually been formed. Later, many players of the Morin Khuur gradually imitated it and changed it to standing performance, making the Morin Khuur more widely spread.

In the vast Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the provinces and districts where the Mongolian people live, people love the morinouqin. In addition to being a solo instrument, it is often used as accompaniment for rap (Mongolian storytelling), folk songs and dances, or with instruments such as the Sihu ensemble. The traditional Morin Khuur has a small volume and is only suitable for playing in yurts and indoors. After the reform, the artistic shape of the Morin Khuur has become more perfect, the volume and range have been significantly expanded, and it is fully suitable for playing on the stage or outdoors. It can not only play, It can also be played with plucked strings, making it an excellent solo instrument.

The wood of the Morin Khuur is colored wood (maple, also called five-pointed maple). No matter how good it is, its main wood is colored wood. But there are many kinds of colored wood, and there are four commonly used matouqin woods: common colored wood in the south, ordinary colored wood in the northeast and colored wood in the northeast.

Southern colored wood (ordinary colored wood and fancy colored wood) are soft but white due to their fast growth rate. The appearance of the piano made of it is relatively white (no colored parts), but the sound quality is not very ideal. High-end morinouqin does not use southern materials.

Northern colored wood (ordinary colored wood and fancy colored wood) generally grow for hundreds of years (diameter more than 45CM, some reaching 80CM). In the long years of severe cold, hard wood is formed, but the harsh Climate creates inconsistent characteristics in growth rings or colors. The Morin Khuur made from it has a long and deep sound, especially the Morin Khuur made from Northeast colored wood. It has a beautiful appearance and is a treasure of Morin Khuur.

Colored wood (also called tiger-skin colored wood) is a high-grade wood for making musical instruments, especially Northeastern colored wood, which is the best wood for making Morinouqin. The surface of Morinouqin made from it has a three-dimensional effect and is extremely noble. But it has no direct impact on sound quality.

Therefore, the first choice for wood is Northeast colored wood, and then Southern colored wood. Nowadays, due to the increase in the price of colored wood (special material for musical instruments) in the market, there are many morin qin made of flowers and other woods. This kind of qin From the perspective of materials, it is not a formal Morin Qin.

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