The History of Bow Piano

The bow has a very long history. It was born out of the ancient hunting bow, which can also be called "music bow". China is the ancestor of stringed instruments. In ancient times, there was a myth that "Houyi shot for ten days", which shows that the ancients respected good archers, and the musical bow was naturally an extension of the invention of bows and arrows. Ancient legends attributed Qin's creation to Fuxi, precisely because he was a tribal leader who made a living by fishing and hunting. In the ancient book "Wu Yue Chun Qiu" in China, there are records of "breaking bamboo, continuing bamboo, flying soil and eating meat". This song is said to have been written during the period of the Yellow Emperor, and it was probably sung with the accompaniment of the bow and chord playing with the hunting bow. From the simple lyrics, it can also be explained that the ancients used bamboo bows to send out mud balls to chase animals. The bow piano of Gaoshan nationality in Taiwan Province Province is the remains of the oldest ancestors of stringed instruments in China. Zhu Jingying in the Qing Dynasty wrote in Haidong Notes (Volume 4): "Cut bamboo into a bow, which is more than a foot long, or seven or eight inches long, with silk as the string, one end folded with thin bamboo pieces around its end, bearing it under the near-tail string, and finally tied to the bow surface, buckled on the teeth, and clawed its strings to make a sound, which is called sudden meat." It still maintains its original form.