The origin of music: As early as before humans developed language, they already knew how to use the pitch, strength, etc. of sounds to express their meaning and feelings. With the development of human labor, chants to unify the rhythm of labor and shouts to convey information to each other gradually emerged. This is the most primitive prototype of music.

When people celebrate harvests and share the fruits of labor, they often knock stone and wooden tools to express their joy and joy. This is the prototype of primitive musical instruments.

In ancient times, there was a distinction between music and music, later referred to as "music", which refers to an art that uses organized music to express people's thoughts and feelings and reflect social life.

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The earliest stringed instrument in the world is the Chinese guqin, also known as Yaoqin, jadeqin and lyre. Guqin is an instrument that has been popular in the Zhou Dynasty. As of 2013, it has a history of at least 3,000 years. It was only called "guqin" at the beginning of this century.

There are posthumous legends about the creators of Qin, such as "Fuxi made the Qin in the past", "Shennong made the Qin", "Shun made the five-stringed Qin to sing the southern wind", etc. It can be seen that the Qin has a long history in China. A long history. ,

The first emperor of China, the Yellow Emperor, was a famous king who created the calendar and writing five thousand years ago. At that time, in addition to the aforementioned Ling Lun, there was also a musician named "Fuxi". It is said that Fuxi had the head of a human and the body of a snake, and was conceived in his mother's womb for twelve years. He played a harp with fifty strings. Because the tone was too sad, Huang Di cut off half of the harp and changed it to twenty-five strings.