What are the historical origins of drum allusions?

According to legend, the Yellow Emperor was defeated in the battle to conquer Zhuolu, and he was Chiyou. Later, Yuan Nv taught her to build an eighty-sided "real cow drum", which was shaken for 500 miles and 3,000 miles. With the drums, he finally captured and killed Chiyou alive. In the existing literature, there are many legends about drums. For example, in The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Zhongshan Classic, it says, "Shoushankui (God) is also a temple where Xu ... dances and plays drums." It shows that the drum is an accompaniment instrument to worship the "dry dance" god. "Shan Hai Jing Ye Dong Jing" contains: ... with its skin as the drum and Lei Shou's bone as the branch, it is said to dominate the world in 500 miles. "In this myth, it is described that the drum is leather-faced, and the sound travels far and wide when it is beaten with a drum pestle, which has the function of sublimating the world.

Drum is one of the oldest musical instruments in the musical instrument family. Almost every nation and tribe in the world has its own drum music. Bronze drum, wooden drum, set drum, stone drum, etc. Almost anything that can be knocked out can be used as a drum. As early as ancient times, our hardworking ancestors began to express their thoughts and feelings with drums when talking and singing. According to legend, our ancestors found that dead trunks and solid trunks made completely different sounds, and that hollow objects had the function of increasing the volume of * * * *, so they used hollow trunks to cover animal skins and python skins to make wooden drums for beating during entertainment. There are not only drums of different sizes, shapes, textures and decorations in the Han Dynasty, but also folk dances and drum music. In ancient times, drums were not only musical instruments, but also necessary things in the army. There is a famous saying in the debate about Cao Gui, that is, "assemble, then run out, and finally fail". In the early years of the Han Dynasty, the border guards often played a song with drums, flutes, drums and other musical instruments to enhance their strength, which was called "advocacy"; In the army, drums and horns are used to tell the time, warn the public or issue orders; Playing drums and shouting loudly are called "drum noise" Drum also has a special function: there is a kind of bronze drum, which the ancients regarded as a symbol of political power and economic power of a region or a tribe, and the patriarch or chief protected this bronze drum as if he were protecting his own life. In addition, in temples, drums can also be used as a tool to tell time.