Mongolian zither of Ordos

Abstract

This paper discusses traditional Mongolian plucked zither briefly, plus the types of Mongolian zither of Ordos, Inner Mongolia and its history, carriers of cultural heritage and continuity which have been inherited until today. Zither is a part of the intellectual culture development of the mankind. Besides adapting and adjusting in social development stages, people’s mental ability improves gradually. It means the requirement of necessity is being provided too. The musical instruments were created in order to feel the delectation-maybe they are true words. Music was developing from ancient time until now like a human development. The zither, one type of ancient musical instruments, was integrating and evaluating until today during the historical period by several versions, along a hundreds of musical instruments of the world. In ancient time, zither was used as a musical instrument of Chinggis khaan’s rite of offering and in contemporary times it has been classified as music of palace, music of offering rite, nation musical instrument and so forth.