Silk Road carries music in addition to the lively performance of national musical instruments and what else

The Silk Road is a road of peace*** appreciation of civilization, and a major artery of communication between the East and the West. The spirit of the Silk Road is rooted in the genes of "peace" of Chinese culture, which is the harmony of all nations, the harmony of ****, the harmony of ****, the harmony of heaven and earth, and the harmony of mankind, and its temperament has been fully evidenced in the core area of the Silk Road corridor - Xinjiang.

Music is the spiritual art of mankind, and musical instruments are the tangible instruments of invisible sound. From the Chinese alligator drum to the nagara, from the huqin to the aijiek, from the sheng to the accordion, from the suona to the sunay, these representative musical instruments on the Silk Road in the Western region, in terms of instrumental form, cultural lineage and artistic form, all show the spirit of Chinese instrumental music on the Silk Road.

The Chinese first drum, the Alligator sinensis, was unearthed at Xiangfen Taosi site in Shanxi during the Longshan culture, and has been used as a ceremonial instrument since 1978. Since the excavation in 1978, eight pieces of alligator drums have been found. It indicates that the Chinese ritual order of heaven and earth has been formed 4300 years ago, and the chapter of the Chinese millennium drum music has thus begun.

Combing between the Silk Road Chinese alligator drums and the Xinjiang Nagra drums, we can find the connection between the Western region and the Central Plains. Alligator drums are made of whole logs, and the surface of the drum is covered with crocodile skin. This technique of using the wood of the earth and sky with the skin of a sacred animal is preserved in the descendants of the drums of Xinjiang and the Central Plains in the form of light and dark lines. The Xinjiang Nagra Drum, known as the Iron Drum from the Western Region, maintains the same overall mark of craftsmanship as the Chinese Alligator Drum, which has the same structure as the Alligator Drum, but the material has changed to iron with the influence of metallurgy. In the same family as the Nagra drum are the Tibetan dharma, the Dai Deang's drums, and the flowerpot drums and sand drums. This is a metaphor for the dark line of Chinese ritual civilization.

In contrast, under the influence of the millennium ritual system, the drums of the Central Plains changed in the production structure, but retained the traditional wooden material, which highlights the bright line of the Chinese ritual civilization. Alligator drums as the source of all drums, the foundation of ritual and music, continued to the Central Plains drums and the Nagda drums form and form of the instrument carrying the connotation of the metaphysical way.

Thus, this bright and dark line unveils the centripetal pattern of the Chinese civilization, the new meaning of the birth of the people of the four directions who gathered in the Central Plains to communicate with each other, and it is the reason why the vitality of China lies in the Chinese civilization. The ancient Chinese alligator drum was used as a war drum, and the nagara was also used as a war drum tied to the saddle of a horse. Therefore, both Zhu Houjian's "wind blowing alligator drums move mountains and rivers, lightning flashes flags high sun and moon" and Wang Changling's "the sound of iron drums at the head of the city is still vibrating, the box in the golden sword blood is not yet dry" of the wind and frost. Nagra drums and the ancient western capricorn drums have deep roots, the inner also echoed the ancient millennium Chinese civilization.　

The Hami Ajek is the main instrument in the accompaniment of the Hami muqam, and it is widely spread in the Hami folk villages and tribes. Its shape is quite different from that of the Aijiek in other regions of Xinjiang, similar to the Erhu of the Central Plains, and is also known as the Hami Huqin. The unique geographic location of Hami is the "eastern gate" of the Silk Road from the Western Regions to the Central Plains, and the influence of the Central Plains culture is self-evident, so the Hami Aijieq may be a product of the process of fusion of Western culture with the Central Plains culture.