Today, Chinese parents rock infants in bamboo cradles, and children play with bamboo toys or blow bamboo flutes. As adults, peasants shape the ground with bamboo tools and, in the spring ...

The xun is used both to perform solos and to accompany the bamboo flute and guzheng, or Chinese zither. Composer Tan Dun often writes music for it, for example in the soundtrack for 1998 movie ...

The dizi is a Chinese transverse flute made of bamboo, featuring a unique membrane over one hole that creates a distinctive buzzing sound. It typically has six finger holes and a range of ...