The correct way to write Tian Zige on Drum.

Correct spelling of drum Tian Zige: horizontal, vertical, horizontal, vertical, horizontal folding, horizontal, dot, skimming, lifting, horizontal, vertical, horizontal skimming/hooking and pressing.

Classical Chinese version of "Explaining Words and Characters: Drum", Guo Ye. When the vernal equinox rings, everything comes out of the shell, so it is called a drum. From the branch, it looks like hitting it with your hand. Li Saturday drum: eight drums, six drums, four drums, two drums, two drums. All drums belong to drums.

Vernacular version of Shuo Wen Jie Zi: drums, musical instruments covered with leather bags. Drum is the music of the vernal equinox, and everything comes out of the shell, so it is called drum. The glyph takes the "branch" as the side, and the "branch" is on the right side of the glyph, as if playing drums with a vertebral rod.

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Drum is a percussion instrument, which is covered with a tight membrane on one or both sides of a solid and usually barrel-shaped drum body. Drums can be beaten by hand or with a drum pestle. Drum is an important instrument in African traditional music and modern music, and some bands are completely composed of percussion instruments dominated by drums. Besides being a musical instrument, drums were also used to spread information in many ancient civilizations.

China, together with Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt and ancient India, is the birthplace of the earliest drums in the world. Historically, China drums spread to neighboring countries, such as North Korea and Japan, and also absorbed many foreign drums. China's traditional drums are the mainstream in the Central Plains, and the drums of ethnic minorities in the border areas are not only influenced by the traditional drums in the Central Plains, but also by foreign drums, especially Arab and Indian drums.

Most of the traditional drums in China originated from the Central Plains, and there were more than 20 kinds before Qin and Han Dynasties. Although they vary in size and height, they are almost all of thick waist type. At that time, it was used for poetry, music, dance, labor, sacrifice, war and celebration.

From the Qin and Han Dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, almost all the original traditional drums in the Central Plains were preserved and developed, while foreign drums, mainly from Arabia and India, were popular in the Central Plains for a long time and occupied an important position, but gradually declined or even lost in the later period, leaving only some unknown records in the literature, such as eaves drum, Qi drum, Jilou drum, Jiegu drum, Ala drum, Dutan drum and Maoyuan drum.