What do each of the eight ancient sounds refer to?

"Gold" refers to instruments made of metal, such as gongs, bells, triangles, chimes, and gongs.?

"Stone" refers to musical instruments made of stone or jade, such as ocarinas and musical instruments.

"Earth" refers to musical instruments made of clay, such as earthenware pipes and flutes

"Leather" refers to musical instruments made of animal leather, such as various kinds of drums.

"Silk" refers to musical instruments made of silk strings, such as those on the erhu and pipa, so they and the flute are called silk and bamboo instruments, such as the qin and the serpent, etc.

"Silk" refers to musical instruments made of silk strings, such as the erhu and the pipa.

"Bamboo" refers to musical instruments made of bamboo, Wicker, Chi (篪) (chi,二声).

"Lagenaria" refers to musical instruments made of gourd, Lagenaria is the ancient name for gourd in China, of course, can be made of gourd silk. Such as sheng, yu.?

"Wood" refers to wooden musical instruments, all kinds of violin, erhu, bang bang, pure wood on the xylophone, such as (wood brother) sound zhu four sound, (吾攵) sound yu two sound.

In ancient China, there was a way to categorize musical instruments according to the material used to make them, called the "eight-tone categorization method". The eight tones refer to the eight materials: gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, bamboo, lagenaria, and wood.

Gold, stone, silk, bamboo, lagenaria, earth, leather and wood are made of eight different materials.

Gold, stone, silk, bamboo, lagenaria, earth, leather and wood are made of eight different materials. Kong Chuan: "The eight tones: gold, stone, silk, bamboo, lagenaria (pao), earth, leather, and wood." Zhouli - Chunguan - Masters: "All broadcast with eight sounds: gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, Lagenaria, bamboo." Zheng Xuan's note: "Gold, bells and cymbals; stone, chimes; earth, ocarinas; leather, drums and rattles; silk, qin and sepals; wood, percussion; lagenaria, sheng; and bamboo, pipes and pipes." Song Shu - Xie Ling Yun Biography: "The five colors are declared, and the eight tones are harmonized, and each of them is suitable for its own purpose." Song Su Shi 《贺韩丞相启》："Pay the eight tones to Shi Kuang, who dares to compete."

The eight tones was originally an ancient title, first seen in the "Zhou Li - Chun Guan - Masters", and then gradually absorbed for a variety of folklore and religion, there is a Buddhist eight tones, music Chang eight tones, musical instruments eight tones, Zhenlong eight tones, etc., is an important part of our long tradition and culture, and an important symbol of the history of the sound.

1, China's ancient eight materials for manufacturing musical instruments, usually gold, stone, silk, bamboo, lagenaria, soil, leather, wood, eight different qualities made. The Records of the Grand Historian: "Poetry, song, long words, sound, according to Yong, the law and the sound, the eight tones can be harmonized, do not take away from each other, the gods and men to and."

2. It refers to music in general. Jin Ge Hong "hold Park Zi - Bo metaphor": "so away from the Zhu dissected the fall in a hundred paces, but can not argue the eight sounds of elegance and vulgarity." Ming Song Yingxing "Tian Gong Kai Wu - smelting and casting": "false its belly to vibrate soup ethereal, and the eight tones up."

3, the sound of the eight winds. Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals - filial piety ":" Miscellaneous eight sounds, the way to raise the ear." Gao Yuxiang note: "Eight winds, the sound of the eight trigrams." Chen Qiyou school explanation: "eight sound, eight wind sound ...... yin and yang family to eight winds belonging to the gossip, so high said the sound of gossip."