The musical instruments can be seen by friends who’d like to learn Chinese in China as the most substantial testimonies of the existence of Chinese ancient music, there are mainly four categories of musical instruments in China.

The first wind instrument to be introduced to those who’d like to study Chinese in China is the bamboo flute, which is one of the remotest musical instruments Of China with its origin from the ancient period eight thousand years ago, the fife probably had imported during the Han Dynasty, when the envoy Zhang Qian was sent on an diplomatic mission.

And to the Qin and Han period, the flute became the exclusive nomination for both the fifes and the clarinets, and it can be seen by friends who’d like to study Mandarin in China that the flutes had become importance musical instruments after the Tang Dynasty.

When you have had traveled to learn Chinese in China and had enjoyed the music played with the wind instrument flute , you will be impressed by the lingering and undulate characteristics of the music played with them, since they would probably make you a sense of melancholy and homesickness.

Here is a poem to be shared with those wanting to study Chinese in China a poem which was quoted by a famous Chinese poet Libai: who’s playing the jade flute secretly, the tunes of which had been spread throughout the city through the spring breezes, however, hearing such the melancholy song of Breaking Willows, how could I resist not being nostalgic?

Another type of wind instrument to be shared with friends who’d like to study Mandarin in China is the vertical flute, here is also a piece of poem talking about it, which goes like this, where a yellow river climbs to the white clouds, near the isolated city among the far stretching mountains; a Tartar under the willows is lamenting on his windpipe, the spring wind never blows to him through the Jade frontier.

The melancholy wind instrument mentioned in the poem was just the vertical flute, the vertical flute was pronounced as Xiao in Chinese pronunciation, which was an ancient Chinese wind instrument, readers who’d like to learn Chinese in China can distinguish from the appearances of flute and vertical flutes that both of them were originated from the bone whistles of the primitive period.

It is amazing for those to study Chinese in China to discover that for a considerable period of time, people tended to refer to the vertical flute as flute, and their clear distinction was made during the Tang Dynasty.

The Characteristics of the timbre of the vertical flutes are also needs to be understand by friends who’d like to study Mandarin in China, its voice is quite low, and with tender timbers, it can express more lingering and plaintive emotions compared with that of the flutes, therefore, the flutes are quite suitable to be played in solo and ensemble.

The third wind instrument to be introduced to readers who’d like to learn Chinese in China is the Suona horn, whoever have had attended wedding ceremonies in the Chinese countryside must have had enjoyed the performances of the Suona, which was so boisterous and jubilant that it is hard to be forgotten.

The Suona horn can produce resonant and high-pitched sounds which had been widely adapted in the military music and folk rituals; it will give an impressive display of its blockbuster influence for friends who’d like to study Chinese in China.

Then, those who‘d like to study Mandarin in China must be quite interested about the origin of Suona, well, Suona is also known as trumpet in China, which was firstly gaining popularity in the Persia and the Arab, it had become the most-widely used instrument in China through long periods’ of development after being introduced from the Jin Dynasty, quite a few Chinese ethnic groups have had been using this wind instrument.

Foreign friends who’d like to learn Chinese in China may also be quite interested about the components of the Suona, as can be observed from its appearance, that the Suona are usually made up of five parts, namely the whistle, wind-blow disk, slug and the copper bowl, the copper bowl is also known as the mouth of the Suona horn, which functions as the loudspeaker and voice embroidering.