Fangxiang

The fangxiang (also fang xiang, fang hsiang; 方响 or 方響 in Chinese, pinyin: fāngxiǎng; also known in the West as the Chinese chang) is an organized-suspended (bianxuan) Chinese metallophone that has been used for over 1,000 years. It was first used in the Liang dynasty (502—557 CE), and then standardized in the Sui and Tang dynasties mostly for court music.

This article is about the Chinese metallophone. For other topics, see Fangxiang (disambiguation).
Fangxiang
Drawing of Chinese fangxiang
Metal
Classification metallophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification111.222
(Percussion)
Developed502—557 (Liang dynasty)
Related instruments
banghyang, hōkyō (kanji: 方響).
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