Whose bone is the drumstick for playing cowhide drums?

The drumsticks that beat cowhide drums are made of real cow bones.

Kuiniu is a wild animal recorded in Shan Hai Jing. It looks like a green cow with only one foot and can jump. The whole body is gray, and there are no horns on the head. The cry is similar to thunder. Legend has it that Xuanyuan Huangdi used the skin of a real cow as a war drum and the bones of a real cow as a drumstick. Drumsticks made of real cow bones are beating drums made of real cowhide, which are very loud and can spread for more than 500 miles.

The influence of later generations

In the decoration of bronzes in the late Shang Dynasty and the Western Zhou Dynasty, the real dragon pattern is one of the main decorative patterns, and the image is mostly that the dragon opens its mouth and rolls its tail. The shape is suitable for the structural lines of bronze decorative surfaces, with straight lines as the main part and arcs as the auxiliary part, which has the aesthetic feeling of Gu Zhuo.

The dragon patterns on bronzes are usually called Kuiwen and Longkui patterns. In the works since the Song Dynasty, the reptilian objects on the bronzes are all called Kuiyi, which refers to the record of "Kuiyi Foot" in ancient books. In fact, an animal with one leg is a profile of a biped, so the word Kuiwen is not used, it is called dragon pattern or dragon pattern.