Varieties of foreign and domestic musical instruments were part of prosperouslydeveloped musicaccompanied dance in the Tang Dynasty. The influence of those musical instruments lasted many generations, especially their direct influence in the Five Dynasties. The clappers, the Konghou and the Fangxiang in the colour tilecarved drawings of musicaccompanied dance unearthed in Feng Hui’s tomb in the Later Zhou Dynasty were the evolutionary reproduction of all Chinese traditional and foreign musical instruments from the Tang Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, which mirrored the traces of development of these musical instruments and changes in the current society. The three musical instruments as an important part of the music-accompanied dance in the Tang Dynasty carried on the music style of the Tang Dynasty and acted also as the primary intermediate link to the music style in the Song Dynasty, whose historical and artistic value are selfevident.

musical instruments in the Tang and Five Dynasties; Feng Hui’s tomb; the clappers; the Fangxiang; the Konghou