Neolithic Age: flute (bone whistle), pottery xun, pottery cymbals, stone chimes, and earthen drums.
Xia: 龠.
Shang: Yu (big Sheng), He (small Sheng), Yan (Xiao), Yong (big cymbal), braided cymbal, Fou, Duo, special chime, and foot drum.
Western Zhou Dynasty: Chi, Guan, Xiao (panpipe), reed, Ben drum, Ying drum, Xuan drum, Qin, zither and chime.
Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period: Zheng, Zhu, Bronze Drum, Xiegu, Ding Yu. Zuo, Han: Sui (flute), Qiang flute, reed pipe, calabash pipe, horn, bamboo pipe, festival drum, pipa (ruan), harp pipe (lying harp pipe).
Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sui and Tang: flute - flute, piccolo, transverse flute, righteous flute, shakuhachi, flute (panpipe) - big Xiao, small Xiao, sheng - big Sheng, small flute Sheng, harmonica (oral string), leaf blowing, beard, double beard (double pipe), square sound, gong, drum - Jie drum, eaves drum, Qi drum, waist drum, Duxian drum, Maoyuan drum, Tara drum , jilou drum, main drum, continuous drum, dabu (hand drum), cymbals - regular cymbals, and cymbals, cymbals, clapper, star, three-stringed qin, percussion qin, Taiyi, seven-stringed, six-stringed, Tianbao Music, pipa - big pipa, plain pipa (ruan), quxiang pipa, big five-string pipa, small five-string pipa, harp - lying harp, vertical harp, phoenix-head harp, zither - playing zither, blocking zither, rolling zither, Xi Ni.
Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty: flute - official flute, Qiang flute, Xia flute, small solitary flute, partridge, Husheng, Qixing, whistle flute, vertical flute, horizontal flute, Lusha Fengquan (36 reeds) , Yun gong, gun and drum, water lamp, Huo Bu Si, Bohai Qin, gourd Qin, Hu Qin, three strings.
Ming and Qing Dynasties: flute-qudi, bangdi, drum-tanggu, cylinder drum, bangu, book drum, octagonal drum, point drum, dulcimer, huqin-fiddle, Nanhu (erhu), banhu , Banghu, Yehu, Sihu, Jinghu, Ruan-Yueqin, Shuangqing, and Zuoqin.
Wind instruments: Chinese wind instruments have ancient origins. According to legend, during the Xia Yu period four thousand years ago, there was a wind instrument called "羠" made of reeds.
In the 20th year of the Republic of China, three Neolithic "Xun" were discovered in Jingcun, Wanquan County, Shanxi Province.
The "Book of Songs" contains records of musical instruments such as flute, pipe, harp, and sheng.
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