What do silk and bamboo mean?

"Sizhu" refers to the traditional stringed instruments and bamboo wind instruments of the Han nationality, and also refers to music.

In Rites and Music, "the stone, silk and bamboo are musical instruments" refers to various musical instruments and also describes various sounds.

The phrase "no complicated ears, no complicated forms" in "Humble Room Inscription" means that there is no complicated music disturbing the peace of ears and no complicated government affairs exhausting the body. Here "silk" refers to stringed instruments and "bamboo" refers to wind instruments.

A detailed introduction to private schools:

In ancient times, the meaning of "silk and bamboo" was the general name of traditional Chinese stringed instruments and bamboo wind instruments. "Silk" and "bamboo" are two categories in the classification of eight-tone musical instruments in Zhou Dynasty. "Silk" refers to stringed instruments and "bamboo" refers to wind instruments. The word "silk bamboo" comes from Liu Yuxi's "Humble Room Inscription", which refers to the sound of playing music and generally refers to music.

There are only two kinds of ancient musical instruments, such as flutes and flutes, which are made of bamboo, that is, wind instruments. The other is a stringed instrument, such as guzheng, which can also be called silk. Silk and bamboo music has the musical characteristics of "softness, thinness and lightness".

The "Eight Tones" in the Zhou Dynasty is the general name of ancient musical instruments in China, including eight kinds: gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, wood and bamboo.