Chinese traditional music played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and string, flute, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. Pentatonic scale. Bamboo pipes and qin is one of the oldest known musical instruments from China, the traditional instruments they are divided into categories based on the composition of matter, namely: animal skins, gourds, bamboo, wood, silk, sand / clay, metal, and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bow string, woodwinds / brass, string and percussion quotation.

Instrument
Woodwind and percussion
dizi, sheng, paigu, gong, paixiao, guan, bells, cymbals
String subject
erhu, zhonghu, Dahu, banhu, Jinghu, gaohu, gehu, Jehu, cizhonghu, diyingehu, leiqin
String of friction and in time.
guqin, sanxian, yangqin, Guzheng, Ruan, konghou, liuqin, pipes, zhu

Traditional Chinese vocal music has been sung with a voice soft, non-resonance or in a high voice and is usually solo rather than choral. All traditional Chinese music form harmonious melody. Chinese vocal music is usually developed from poems and verses sung to the music. Instrumental pieces played on the erhu or dizi are popular, and often available outside of China, but the pipes and zheng music, which is more traditional, more popular in China itself. Yang qin instruments may be the most admired in China, though very few people know what it is or see and hear when being played. The zheng, a form sitar, the most popular in Henan, Chaozhou, Hakka and Shandong. Pipe, a kind of lute, believed to have been introduced from the Arabian Peninsula from the 6th century and adopted the Chinese taste. This is the most popular in Shanghai and surrounding areas.

Ethnic Han music
Han China consists of 92% of the population of China. Ethnic Han music consists of heterophonic music, where musicians play versions of a single melody. Percussion is usually accompanied by the music, dance, talk, and opera. Ethnic Han Chinese music has incorporated many aspects of the meaning, feeling, and tone of voice. This musical genre, has a flavor, similar to the Chinese. This relationship is created by the tone, the tone of an pergeser high to low tones, or lower tones to higher tones, or a combination of both. This similarity means that the instrument is a very important part in mastering the technique with the left and right hand (left hand is used to create the string tone, the right hand is for plucking or picking the strings), especially for classical (literary) tradition. Sometimes, it can be put in singing the music to create harmony or melody that accompanies the instrument. Han Chinese folk music featured in the poem, with a soothing slow tempo to express feelings that connect with the audience or anyone that displays it. Han Chinese folk music delivered dengansebuah way, using silence that change its meaning, it also creates a sound similar to poetry.