Introduction of Huludong

Since the 1950s, the copper gourd sheng bucket unearthed in the No. 24 tomb of Lijiashan in Jiangchuan, Yunnan Province, and the ancient tomb complex of Shizhai Mountain in Jinning, is determined to be a relic of the Spring and Autumn Period to the time of the Warring States. There are five, six, seven tube three kinds. Bamboo or wooden sheng tube has been decayed and does not exist, copper sheng bucket shape slightly different. Li Jiashan tomb 24 unearthed two copper bucket, the upper end of the casting of a standing cow as a decoration, the shape of a vivid image, the height of 26 and 28.2 centimeters respectively. Copper gourd sheng system imitation natural gourd lagen shape with bronze casting sheng bucket, another inserted bamboo wooden sheng mouth blowing. Mainly used to accompany the dance. Such as the Kaihua bronze drum face the main halo image of the Lagenaria sheng dance, the picture of eight people in one person while playing the gourd sheng dance, Jinning Shi Zhai Mountain excavated bronze drum carcass picture, dance figurines, music and dance bronze ornaments and house models are also often seen playing the gourd sheng image ("Chinese music history illustrated book" Ⅱ - 48 to Ⅱ - 51).

Documentary accounts of the gourd sheng began in the Tang Dynasty. Duan Anjie's "Miscellaneous Records of the House of Music" recorded that during the Dazhong (847-859) period of the Tang Dynasty, "the Yibe music ...... had the gourd sheng". Tang Dynasty Fan Chuo "book of barbarians" in the Nanzhao (the scope of all of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi and Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar northern region) "young children in the evening and night parade in the streets and lanes, blowing gourd pianos or blowing leaves, the sound of the rhyme, are sent to the feelings of speech, with each other call." The New Tang Book - Nanzhao Biography: "They play the ladle sheng, and the sheng has four pipes. When the wine arrives in front of the guest, he pushes the goblet with the sheng." Fan Chengda, Southern Song Dynasty, "Guihai Yuheng Zhi": "Gourd sheng two rivers in the mine music." Southern Song Dynasty, Zhou Dai Fei, "Ling Wai Dai Ai": "Gourd bamboo, save the bamboo in the dipper, blowing the chirping.

The gourd for the sheng bucket, the thin end of the perforation connected to a long tube for the mouthpiece, take over the tube is about 25 centimeters long. Sheng tube yellow withered bamboo system, there are four to eight tubes ranging from 9-90 long, tube diameter 1-1.5 cm, ring and slightly through the gourd abdomen, fixed with wax. Each tube near the gourd to open a sound hole, the lower end of the hollow for the bottom of the sound hole, inserted into the gourd tube embedded in 2 cm long, 0.2 cm wide bamboo or copper reeds.