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I hate to be the piffle pot here, but what in the hell is "traditional" Chinese music anyway? If you're talking about the stuff that Hollywood plays everytime an Asian walks on-screen, then I guess the pentatonic scale applies. However, much of the ancient Chinese music contains quarter-tones, which are in between half-steps, and are unplayable on traditional Western instruments. As time progressed and Western contact became more prevalent, Western anthropologists and musicologists tended to trim those quarter-tones away in a blatantly jingoistic attempt to make Chinese music sound more Western.
I think the trivia question is unanswerable as asked.
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