Yan is one of the oldest wind instruments in China. What are its characteristics?

Cloud is a closed wind instrument with simple timbre and unique nature, which occupies an important position in the history of primitive art in the world. The early prototype of Yan was stone hunting. Some stones have naturally occurring holes. When ancestors attacked their prey with this stone, the cavity in the stone would whistle due to the action of airflow. This kind of whistle inspired the ancient ancestors to make musical instruments, which led to the early shackles.

Inkstone is one of the oldest wind instruments in China, with a history of about 7,000 years. Cloud is an open-mouthed musical instrument with simple and unique timbre, which occupies an important position in the history of primitive art in the world. According to legend, Yun Qi originated from a hunting tool called "Stone Meteor". In ancient times, people often tied a stone ball or clay ball with a rope and threw it out to shoot birds and animals. Some spheres are empty in the middle, and you can make a sound by swinging around. Later, people thought it was fun, so they blew it, and this stone meteor slowly evolved into a trap.

At first, the forest was mostly made of stones and bones, and later it developed into pottery, with many shapes, such as oblate, oval, spherical, fish-shaped and pear-shaped, among which pear-shaped is the most common. There are water spray holes at the upper end, flat bottom and sound holes on the side wall. It has gone through a long period. About four or five thousand years ago, from one sound hole to two sound holes, you can play three notes. After entering the slave society, Yan got further development. A few years ago, Yan from the late patriarchal society to the early slave society was unearthed in Huoshaogou, Yumen, Gansu Province. It has three sound holes and can play four kinds of sounds. By the late Shang Dynasty, more than 0/000 years before BC, Yu had developed into five sound holes and could play six sounds. By the Spring and Autumn Period more than 700 years before BC, there were already six sound holes, which could blow out complete pentatonic and heptatonic scales. It took more than 3000 years to develop from one sound hole to six sound holes.

In the ancient court of China, rhyme was divided into ode and elegance. The so-called elegant casket refers to a large scroll "as big as a goose egg, named elegant casket", which is applied in elegant music; The so-called "ode" refers to the small size, "the villain is like a chicken, so it is praised." There are also many appearance styles handed down from the history of other court music except Taolian and Yayue: three colors of Tang Dynasty, carved red pottery, monsters and facial makeup. According to the sound hole, from no sound hole to sound hole, from one hole to two holes, three holes and five holes, there were already six holes in ancient times and six holes in the Qing court. Eight holes, nine holes and ten holes are popular in modern times.

Yan's timbre is deep, sad, mournful and endless, and its sound is turbid, mournful and faint, which has a unique musical quality. Perhaps it is this special timbre that gave Lu and Lu a sacred, elegant, mysterious and noble spiritual temperament in their long-term artistic feelings and comparisons. The expression of "Cloud" and "Cloud" reflects the position and function of China traditional Confucian ethical culture in the historical development of China. In a sense, it is not an instrument that is usually used to play, but an instrument of meditation and nostalgia.

Classic Nuo songs include Mourning for the Past, Nagato Complaining, Boya Complaining, Changting Complaining Slow, Mountain Flowing Water, Guan Shanyue, Three Stories in Yangguan, Su Wu Shepherd, Shan Gui and so on. Or they perform China's classical songs, or they compose music specially by Kui. Almost all Huqu can't get rid of sadness, and some Huqu can play sadness with its unique timbre.

Forest, in essence, is ancient and vicissitudes, desolate and lonely, far from the secular, mysterious and desolate. Seven orifices and exquisite heart, long and sad. This means that it is ancient and somewhat mysterious. I first knew Lin was in Jia Pingwa's novel "The Waste Capital". The sad voice runs through the book, showing the ancient and depressing atmosphere that pervades the abandoned capital to the fullest. At that time, I didn't know what it looked like, only that it was made of clay and had a history of thousands of years. This is the oldest musical instrument.