Chinese musical instruments

Chinese musical instruments were traditionally classified into 8 categories known as bayin. The eight categories are: silk, bamboo,wood,stone,metal,clay,gourd and hide.There are other instruments which may not fit these classifications. This is one of the first musical classifications ever.

Silk
Silk instruments are mostly stringed instruments (including those that are plucked, bowed, and struck). Since ancient times the Chinese have used twisted silk for strings, though today metal or nylon are more frequently used. Instruments in the silk category include:

Plucked

• Guqin (Chinese: 古琴) – 7-stringed zither
• takim (Chinese: 瑟) – 25-stringed zither with moveable bridges (ancient sources say 13, 25 or 50 strings)
• Guzheng (古筝) – 16–26 stringed zither with movable bridges
• Konghou (箜篌) – harp
• Pipa (琵琶) – pear-shaped fretted lute with 4 or 5 strings
• Sanxian (三弦) – plucked lute with body covered with snakeskin and long fretless neck
• Ruan (Chinese: 阮) – moon-shaped lute in five sizes: gaoyin-, xiao-, zhong-, da-, and diyin-; sometimes called ruanqin (阮琴)
• Liuqin (柳琴) – small plucked, fretted lute with a pear-shaped body and four strings
• Yueqin (月琴) – plucked lute with a wooden body, a short fretted neck, and four strings tuned in pairs
• Qinqin (秦琴) – plucked lute with a wooden body and fretted neck; also called meihuaqin 
• Duxianqin (simplified Chinese: 独弦琴) – the instrument of Jing People plucked zither with only one string.

Bowed

• Struck
• Huqin (胡琴) – family of vertical fiddles
• Erhu (二胡) – two-stringed fiddle
• Zhonghu (中胡) – two-stringed fiddle, lower pitch than erhu
• Gaohu (高胡) – two-stringed fiddle, higher pitch than erhu; also called yuehu 
• Banhu (板胡) – two-stringed fiddle with a coconut resonator and wooden face, used primarily in northern China
• Jinghu (京胡) – two-stringed fiddle, very high pitched, used mainly for Beijing opera
• Jing erhu (京二胡) – erhu used in Beijing opera
• Erxian (二弦) – two-stringed fiddle, used in Cantonese, Chaozhou, and nanguan music
• Tiqin (提琴) – two-stringed fiddle, used in kunqu, Chaozhou, Cantonese, Fujian, and Taiwanese music
• Yehu (椰胡) – two-stringed fiddle with coconut body, used primarily in Cantonese and Chaozhou music
• Daguangxian (大广弦) – two-stringed fiddle used in Taiwan and Fujian, primarily by Min Nan and Hakka people
• Datong (大筒) – two-stringed fiddle used in the traditional music of Hunan
• Kezaixian (壳仔弦) – two-stringed fiddle with coconut body, used in Taiwan opera
• Liujiaoxian (六角弦) – two-stringed fiddle with hexagonal body, similar to the jing erhu; used primarily in Taiwan
• Tiexianzai (铁弦仔) – a two-stringed fiddle with metal amplifying horn at the end of its neck, used in Taiwan; 
• Hexian (和弦) – large fiddle used primarily among the Hakka of Taiwan
• Huluqin (葫芦琴) – two-stringed fiddle with gourd body used by the Naxi of Yunnan
• Huluhu (葫芦胡) – two-stringed fiddle with gourd body used by the Zhuang of Guangxi
• Maguhu (马骨胡） – two-stringed fiddle with horse bone body used by the Zhuang and Buyei peoples of southern China
• Tuhu (土胡) – two-stringed fiddle used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi
• Jiaohu (角胡) – two-stringed fiddle used by the Gelao people of Guangxi, as well as the Miao and Dong
• Sihu (四胡) – four-stringed fiddle with strings tuned in pairs
• Sanhu (三胡) – 3-stringed erhu with an additional bass string; developed in the 1970s 
• Zhuihu (坠胡) – two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard
• Zhuiqin (坠琴) – two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard
• Leiqin (雷琴) – two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard
• Dihu (低胡) – low pitched two-stringed fiddles in the erhu family, in three sizes:
  • Xiaodihu (小低胡) – small dihu, tuned one octave below the erhu
  • Zhongdihu (中低胡) – medium dihu, tuned one octave below the zhonghu
  • Dadihu (大低胡) – large dihu, tuned two octaves below the erhu
• Dahu (大胡) – another name for the xiaodihu
• Cizhonghu – another name for the xiaodihu
• Gehu (革胡) – four-stringed bass instrument, tuned and played like cello
• Diyingehu (低音革胡) – four stringed contrabass instrument, tuned and played like double bass
• Laruan (拉阮) – four-stringed bowed instrument modeled on the cello
• Paqin (琶琴) – modern bowed instrument
• Dapaqin (大琶琴) – bass paqin
• Dixianqin (低絃琴)
• Niutuiqin or niubatui (牛腿琴 or 牛巴腿) – two-stringed fiddle used by the Dong people of Guizhou
• Matouqin (马头琴) –  Mongolian two-stringed "horsehead fiddle"
• Xiqin (奚琴) – ancient prototype of huqin family of instruments
• Yazheng ( 轧筝) – bowed zither; also called yaqin 
• Zhengni (筝尼) – bowed zither; used by the Zhuang people of Guangxi
• Aijieke (艾捷克) – four-stringed bowed instrument used in Xinjiang; similar to kamancheh 
• Sataer (萨它尔) – long-necked bowed lute used in Xinjiang

• Yangqin – a Chinese dulcimer.
• Zhu – an ancient instrument no longer used.

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     May 15, according to foreign media reports, statistics show that the world's most secure browser is not Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, not Firefox, but Microsoft IE10.

     According to a study shows that in this regard to prevent malicious software being downloaded IE than other browsers do indeed excellent.

     It is understood that, NSS Labs chose IE10, Chrome 25 and 26, Firefox 19, Safari 5 and Opera 12 as the research object, and then test these browsers resist predesigned malware capabilities. The test lasted 28 days, and in the same anti-virus software running Windows 8 environment.

     In 550 test project using a total of 754 available malicious URL, and each browser eventually got over 18,000 valid cases. Test cycle once every 6 hours until all the malicious URL becomes unavailable so far.

     The test results show that, IE10 up to 99.96% success rate far ahead of other competitors.

     Chrome browser to prevent malicious software success rate was 83%, while the Safari, Firefox and Opera were 10.15%, 9.92% and 1.87%.

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Free Style Performance

Reading

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