Chinese Bowed String Ming Instrument History Source Exploration,

The thesis provides newer and more proofs and more overall revelations through trying to verify and arrange the Chinese historic development of stringed instruments with pulling, in order to found the theory of the Chinese historic development of stringed instruments with pulling systematically, completely and scientifically. Chinese stringed instruments with pulling form and perfect under the combination of the local and the alien diversities. Chinese stringed instruments with pulling came into being in Tang dynasty from "the stick for pulling" which was regarded as a bow and developed into the stick for beating of Chinese percussion instruments. Chinese stringed instruments with pulling in Tang dynasty had yaqin and xiqin with a yuantong, a non-fingerboard and that later developed into type I huqin which a bow pulls the strings between two strings. In Song and Yuan dynasty there were stringed instruments with pulling with fingerboards and that a bow pulls the strings outside strings, which were introduced from Arabian area, called "horsetail huqin" in China and are the ancestries of type II huqin. "Horsetail bow" is used widely in Chinese stringed instruments with pulling from Ming and Qing dynasty to now and unites basically the local stringed instruments with pulling and the alien stringed instruments with pulling in "bow".