What kind of musical instrument is the kind of gourd shaped to be blown by mouth.

The instrument is called hulusi.

Hulusi, also known as gourd xiao, the Dai language is called Wicker Nanmu Pour (Nanmu Pour is the meaning of gourd). Popular in Xishuangbanna, Dehong, Baoshan, Ruili and other Dai areas, in the Achang, Brown, De'ang also more popular. The origin of hulusi can be traced back to the pre-Qin era, and there are many moving legends about the origin of hulusi in folklore. The Dai folk have passed down such a touching story: a long time ago, a flash flood, a Dai family of small Bubao holding a large gourd, broke through the waves, to save his sweetheart, his faithful love touched the Buddha, Buddha inserted the bamboo tube into the golden gourd, to give the brave small Bubao, small Bubao hold up the golden gourd, blowing out the beautiful music. At once, the wind and waves calm, flowers bloom, peacocks open screen, wishing the couple good luck and happiness, and since then the gourd silk in the Dai family for generations.

The Dai people are multi-talented and can sing and dance well. In the festival, no matter in the river rowing dragon boat or in the riverside put high rise, or in the square to catch swing, or in the bamboo building drinking, are accompanied by the Dai people moving song. The construction of the gourd silk is special, and the materials used are all taken from the natural, purely handmade to complete the production process. It consists of a gourd, a main tube, a reed, and an attached tube, with seven holes in the main tube, a range of 3567123456, and an attached tube that continuously sends out a tone. The gourd silk has a beautiful and friendly pronunciation, slightly nasal, good at expressing gentle and delicate feelings, giving people a subtle and hazy sense of beauty. Because it sends out the sound like shaking silk as ethereal, gentle, so it is called the hulusi.

Bawu is in Yunnan Hani, Yi and other ethnic minorities generally popular in the alto reed instrument, with the mouth wrapped in the mouthpiece horizontal blowing, it and hulusi has *** with the origins of the same principle of articulation, the same range of the same, the same playing method, the tone is also very similar, but the tone of the Bawu thicker, so there is "will play hulusi will play the Bawu! The sound is similar, but the sound is thicker, so there is "if you can play the hulusi, you can play the baowu", so they are called sister instruments.