A plucked instrument is a general term for instruments that pluck strings with fingers or plucked instruments and tap strings with harps and bamboo poles. Plucked instruments can be divided into horizontal and vertical types. Horizontal styles, such as: Zheng (guzheng and tuning Zheng), guqin, dulcimer and piano solo. Vertical, such as: Pipa, Ruan, Yueqin, Sanxian, Dongbula, Zamu Nie.

First kind

Represented by lyre, including guqin, guzheng and other musical instruments. This musical instrument has a rectangular wooden box as the body and the strings are flat. Except for the lyre, which can be played with strings, all the others only use its empty strings.

the second type

Represented by pipa, it includes, yueqin, Ruan, Sanxian and other musical instruments. Equipped with four, three and two strings, the left hand presses the string and the right hand plucks the string, and most of them are played on the legs.

The third category

This is a dulcimer. Lying flat on a wooden frame, it was introduced from abroad in the Ming Dynasty.

There are many kinds of plucked instruments.