What are the traditional bamboo wind instruments instruments

Traditional bamboo wind instruments include the xiao?

The xiao is the most familiar bamboo instrument. It is rumored to have come from the Qiang tribe in the ancient western region. The flute is played horizontally, and the flute is similar to the xiao, which is played straight. According to legend, the xiao was made by Shun. At that time, the name of the xiao was "jianjia", which means "uneven". This is because the ancient xiao is a multi-tube arrangement (i.e., "row xiao"), in order to make the sound of different heights, the length of the tube is not the same, so the name is "jagged", the ancient xiao has a sealed bottom and no bottom of the two kinds of the former is called "bottom xiao

The ancient xiao has two kinds of bottom and no bottom, the former is called "bottom xiao", the latter is "hole xiao".

Lore has it that the xiao was made by Shun. It was played vertically. Before the Tang Dynasty, it was called the "xiao" or "row of pipes". It is a set of bamboo tubes of different lengths arranged in the shape of a phoenix wing. Nowadays, the term "xiao" mostly refers to the single-barrel xiao. The sound of the xiao is near ancient times, in the verdant and lush bamboo forests, a song is heard, and it is long and mournful, like a song or a cry.

Origin of the xiao

The history of the xiao can be traced back to ancient times.

Chinese archaeology shows that the current excavated artifacts have been found more than 7,000 years ago in the bone vocalizer, archaeologists call "bone whistle" (Zhejiang Hemudu unearthed cultural relics, now stored in the Zhejiang Museum). This batch of bone whistles are made of bird and avian limb bones, ancient people will be bone marrow in the bone marrow extraction, the formation of a hollow bone tube, and then in the wall of the tube with holes, they are about 7 centimeters long, the diameter of the tube 6 - 8 millimeters, slightly curved arc, in the convex arc of the surface of the opening of the two or three holes, you can blow a few sounds, and so the formation of the bone whistles.