History of Traditional Chinese Music

China's historic old national music. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, China's national music has experienced tremendous growth. Over the past dozen years, China's national musicians performing in a country other than, also often performed in foreign countries. Since 1998, China Central National Music Orchestra has a row for the five-year national concert held on the day of the Spring Festival of China in the Golden Hall of Vienna Austria, and this has become one of the important events in musical life in Vienna. In addition to the Golden Hall of Vienna, Chinese traditional music is also performed in many other stage in the world, among others, the U.S. Carnegie Music Hall and the Hall of the United Nations in Geneva. The show attracted national musician China lets the world appreciate the privilege of traditional Chinese music.

Assessment of both the audience at home and abroad are also encouraged composers to create more works of Chinese music and distinctively Chinese nation today. Traditionally, the national music performances are held mostly in the form of a concerto or solo, whereas now many young musicians in a creative and flexible hold musical performances by combining different kinds of musical instruments, so that the audience liked the show.

The first musical instrument there is? And when the tools come from?
Is it still exists today?

In the "History of Universal Music," Roland of Candida predicted sequence of events to the discovery of a musical instrument. Like this,
About 40,000 years ago
Manufacture of musical instruments are first made to imitate natural sounds in the spoken language and singing.

Between 40,000 to around 9000 BC
Began to be made an instrument made of stone, wood and bone: dulcimer, Lithopone, drum and Flutes.

Neolithic period (from about 9000 BC)
Cordofones membranofones creation and, after the development of a tool. From here a tool called Afináveis ??be the first instrument.
5000 BC - The development of metallurgy
Creation of brass instruments and copper enable the implementation of more advanced.
So in fact, the instrument does not specifically found.

But at first, the music is the sounds produced from a variety of tools available at that time. And finally the invention of musical instruments developed in line with the culture and availability of raw materials, tailored to the geographical nature.
For example, nekara found in Bronze Age. This instrument is like a drum made of bronze with a variety of sizes, ranging from 20 cm in diameter to large diameter of 1 meter.
Nekara in the bronze is believed to be the caller and is played in the rain ritual.
In addition, there are other instruments, the trumpet of bird bones. Trumpet bird bones were found in a cave in Germany. Estimated to trumpet the bird bones 35,000 years old.
Trumpet of the long bones of birds are 22 inches, and has five holes. According to the journal Nature, this musical instrument is the oldest musical instrument in the world.
Another trumpet trumpet, among others, found in Austria (19,000 years old). A total of 22 horns are also found in France (30,000 years old)