The xun – pronounced huen in Cantonese – is a flute shaped like an egg but with a flat bottom. It is the signature clay instrument of modern Chinese orchestras. Modern examples have multiple ...

The xun is used both to perform solos and to accompany the bamboo flute and guzheng, or Chinese zither. Composer Tan Dun often writes music for it, for example in the soundtrack for 1998 movie ...