![]() The wo-konghou was used to play yayue (court music) in the Kingdom of Chu. It is one of the oldest Chinese musical instruments, similar to the Korean geomungo. The zither form was first mentioned in written texts in the Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BC). The other possibility for the wo-konghou is as an angular harp turned on its side to function as a horizontal harp. ![]() One use of wo konghou could have been applied to a fretted bridge zither whose strings were plucked with a slender bamboo stick). With the wo-konghou ( 卧箜篌) (literally "horizontal konghou)," there have been two lines of thought neither has been proven. Excavated from a tomb near Ji'an (集安市), Tonghua (通化市), southern Jilin province, northeast China. ![]()
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