It is generally believed that the Chinese nation with the Han nationality as the main body originated in the Yellow River Basin. Since the ancient Yellow Emperor and Chiyou fought in the wild of Julu, the process of ethnic integration in China began. The alternation of war-peace-war-peace (the so-called "world events must be combined for a long time, and they must be separated for a long time") has brought about the growing and huge process of the Chinese nation.

As the carrier of music culture, musical instruments will develop and merge with the development and integration of the nation. Probably from the first great integration of all ethnic groups in the Warring States period (Qin was originally a western minority country, but it belonged to the Yellow River basin; Yan in the north, Chu in the south and wuyue in the east are not nation-states in the Yellow River Basin. I'm afraid all kinds of musical instruments popular among these ethnic groups should be regarded as "our Han ethnic musical instruments" now.

Among the ancient musical instruments in China, except "fire and water" did not become a musical instrument (now there is a musical fountain, it seems that "water" has also entered the ranks of musical instruments), gold, wood (bamboo), earth (jade), silk and leather are all raw materials of musical instruments. And those musical instruments should be regarded as "our national musical instruments of the Han nationality." Make a short list, for example:

Gold: bells, gongs and cymbals. ...

Wood (bamboo): flute, flute, sheng, roll and bang. ...

Earth (jade): Yi, Qing. ...

Qin, Zheng ...

Leather (trumpet): drum, trumpet ...

If the musical instruments formed during the second great integration of the Chinese nation between the end of the Han Dynasty and the Sui and Tang Dynasties are also counted as "our national musical instruments of the Han nationality", then there are many. Including pipa, huqin, dulcimer, harp, flute, suona, muyu and drum. ...

Pay attention to have a look, and you will find that the names of the "first batch" instruments above are often called by a Chinese character; And the names of the "second batch" instruments on it are all two words. Although these "two-character musical instruments" should have been handed down from neighboring nationalities and formed after the transformation of "Sinicization", those ancestors have either merged into the Han nationality or merged into the nationality of that nationality, and they can no longer be regarded as the representative nationality of that musical instrument. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with calling these instruments "Chinese musical instruments".

Later, more than three Chinese-called musical instruments such as "Ma Touqin" and "Don't Move" appeared ... These can't be regarded as "Chinese musical instruments" of course.