{"id":2967,"date":"2021-03-04T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aini.pk\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2021-03-04T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T23:23:00","slug":"music-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aini.pk\/en\/featured\/music-of-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Music of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <b><a title=\"Music\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Music\">music<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a title=\"China\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/China\">China<\/a><\/b>\u00a0dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the\u00a0<a title=\"Zhou Dynasty\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Zhou_Dynasty\">Zhou Dynasty<\/a>\u00a0(1122\u00a0<small>B.C.E.<\/small>\u00a0&#8211; 256\u00a0<small>B.C.E.<\/small>). One of the Five Classics, supposedly edited by Confucius, is the\u00a0<i>Shijing (Book of Songs),<\/i>\u00a0a collection of poems from folk songs or songs performed at banquets or at ritual sacrifices. In ancient China, music was regarded as central to the harmony and longevity of the state. Chinese traditional music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale has five notes. Bamboo pipes and\u00a0<a title=\"Guqin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Guqin\">qin<\/a>\u00a0are among the oldest known\u00a0<a title=\"Musical instrument\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Musical_instrument\">musical instruments<\/a>\u00a0from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth\/clay, metal and stone.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2968 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/aini.pk\/wp-content\/uploads\/music.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Chinese <a title=\"Orchestra\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Orchestra\">orchestras<\/a>\u00a0traditionally consist of\u00a0<a title=\"String instrument\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/String_instrument\">bowed strings<\/a>, woodwinds, plucked strings and\u00a0<a title=\"Percussion instrument\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Percussion_instrument\">percussion<\/a>. Chinese vocal music has traditionally been sung in a thin, non-resonant voice or in falsetto and is usually solo rather than\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Choral\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newworldencyclopedia.org\/entry\/Choral\">choral<\/a>. All traditional Chinese music is melodic rather than harmonic. Chinese vocal music probably developed from sung poems and verses accompanied by music.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New World Encyclopedia\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The music\u00a0of\u00a0China\u00a0dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the\u00a0Zhou Dynasty\u00a0(1122\u00a0B.C.E.\u00a0&#8211; 256\u00a0B.C.E.). One of the Five Classics, supposedly edited by Confucius, is the\u00a0Shijing (Book of Songs),\u00a0a collection of poems from folk songs or songs performed at banquets or at ritual sacrifices. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,53,4,141,2,30,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-stories","category-featured","category-i-love-china","category-learn-chinese","category-news","category-trading","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Music of China - AINI - Wo Ai Ni - I Love You - \u6211\u7231\u4f60<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aini.pk\/en\/featured\/music-of-china\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Music of China - AINI - Wo Ai Ni - I Love You - \u6211\u7231\u4f60\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The music\u00a0of\u00a0China\u00a0dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the\u00a0Zhou Dynasty\u00a0(1122\u00a0B.C.E.\u00a0&#8211; 256\u00a0B.C.E.). 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