The morinouqin is a unique traditional musical instrument of the Mongolian people.

Introduction to the Morinouqin:

The Morinouqin 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 Morin Khuur 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.

The origin of the Morin Qin:

According to legend, a shepherd, in memory of a pony, took its leg bones as pillars, its skull as a tube, and its tail hair as a bowstring to make a two-string fiddle, and pressed the pony on it. A horse's head was carved on the top of the handle, hence the name. Guo Xiaochuan's poem "The Ping Lu King Comes out of Steel": "People in the pastoral area heard that steel sprays were sprayed, and the Morin Qin was played in the yurt."

The Morin Qin got its name because the head of the fiddle is decorated with horse heads. "Manuscripts of the History of the Qing Dynasty" records: "Huqin is made of tung trees, with two strings, a dragon's head, and a square handle. The groove is oval and sharp downward, with leather exposed. There is wood outside the groove like a hairpin to buckle the string. Below the dragon's head is the mountain pass. The strings are hollowed out and tied with two shafts, one on the left and one on the left, and eighty-one horsetail stems tied with wood." It can be seen that the Morin Qin originally also had a dragon head.

This is recorded in "Book of Rites and Music", Volume 71 of "History of the Yuan Dynasty": "The huqin is made like a fire without thinking, with a rolled neck, two strings on the head of a dragon, and a bow, and the strings of the bow are horsetails. "According to rock paintings and some historical data, the ancient Mongolians began to process yogurt spoons, cover them with cowhide, string two horsetail strings on them, and play them as musical instruments, which was called "spoon-shaped huqin".

Currently, many experts believe that this is the predecessor of Morin Qin. The longest spoon-shaped huqin at that time was about two feet, and the sound box was smaller, so the sound was much smaller.

To this day, some people in the western part of Mongolia call the Morin Qin "spoon-shaped Hu Qin". At that time, the head of the violin was not necessarily a horse head, but a human head, a skull, a crocodile head, a turtle shell or a dragon head. In addition, some people said that the head of this kind of violin was in the shape of a monkey's head or a Martel head.

Myrtle looks like a dragon and has a face like a monkey, symbolizing a divine creature that suppresses evil spirits. According to the research of relevant scholars, the name Morinouqin came from around the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. The head of the fiddle was changed from a dragon head or a mater head to a horse head. In addition, there are many types of musical instruments, such as Pihu, Spade Hu, Sihu, Xi Qin, Ji Qin, etc., which were all popular instruments at that time.

During the Yuan Dynasty, with the gradual affluence of palace life and the number of dedicated performers, singers, and dancers in the palace, the morinouqin gradually became one of the main contents of court music.