Once said, from "Lai". Zhuangzi's theory of everything: "Women (you) listen to people's voices but don't smell them, and women listen but don't smell them." Xiang Jinguo's Note: "Lai, Xiao Ye."
Second, it comes from "Yu". Guo Moruo's Study on Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Interpretation and Characters: "Hu Zi is like a compilation." In ancient times, turtle meant turtle. Qiyun Xiao Ping: Xiao, be a turtle. Staggered like the wings of a phoenix. "
Xiao, an ancient musical instrument used in court music. "Eight tones" belong to "bamboo". Stone carvings, murals and tomb figures since the Han and Tang Dynasties have preserved many images of playing the flute. There are many kinds of flutes. Judging from the composition of the number of tubes (also known as "winning number"), there are more than ten kinds ranging from ten to twenty-four tubes. From the shape, the braided tubes are staggered like phoenix wings, and some are single wings; Some have wings. From the production materials, in addition to bamboo flute, there are bone flute and stone flute. At present, the earliest known bamboo flute is the thirteen-pipe flute in Ceng Houyi, which has been more than 2,400 years. The earliest Shipai Xiao is thirteen-tube Shipai Xiao unearthed from Chu TombNo. Si Xia 1 in Xichuan. It was carved from a whole piece of white marble, about 2500 years ago. The bird bone flute unearthed from the feldspar noble tomb of Taiqing Palace site in Lu Yi, Henan Province is the earliest physical object found in China, about 3000 years ago.
In the Tang and Song Dynasties, due to the different application occasions or music types, Paixiao was derived from "Le Yan Xiao", "advocating Xiao", "Jiaofang Xiao" and "Qiuci Xiao". Le Qing, Xiliang, Qiuci, Shule, Anguo, Gaochang, Koryo and Le Yan all adopted flutes among the top ten lyrics and songs in the Tang Dynasty, which shows the important position of flutes in court music at that time. It is generally believed that the single pipe flute is from the Qiang nationality, with four holes and vertical blowing. The Han Dynasty was also called "the strong emperor", or simply "the emperor". Later, a hole was added to the Fang Jing, making it five holes. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, two kinds of air-sounding instruments with side holes and edges were always called "flutes". Shen Songkuo's "Meng Qian Bi Tan" Volume 5: "The flute endowed by Ma Rong in the later Han Dynasty is bottomless, with five holes, and one hole goes out of the back. Now the ruler is eight, and Shan Li notes:' Seven holes, one foot and four inches long', which is the flute ear today. The propaganda department often calls it' horizontal blowing' and it does not melt.
During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the vertical flute with six holes was still called "flute". So before that, clarinet and flute were often confused by later generations. In order to distinguish the two, musicians often refer to the flute as the "ancient flute".
Zhu's "Yu Yue": "Today, the flute tube is an ancient flute, so it is an ancient flute. Xiao Yun is also a flute player. "
It was not until the Song and Yuan Dynasties that Paixiao, Dong Xiao and Hengdi were gradually distinguished. According to the production materials, there are bamboo (purple bamboo flute), ceramics (Dehua porcelain flute), jade (white Yu Di), metal (iron flute), paper flute and so on.
As early as "Shangshu Yiji", it was recorded that "90% of Xiao Shao, the phoenix came to the instrument." Xiao (at that time, it was a paixiao) as an accompaniment instrument for Shaole.
The flute reformed by Le Gonglie in the Western Jin Dynasty and Xun Xu, the supervisor of Chinese Books, has 6 holes (the first 5, the last 5 1), and its shape is very similar to today's flute. Huan Yi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was good at music. He has a guting flute (Xiao) in Cai Yong, and Cai Yong is the first flute player in Jiangnan, and his status and reputation are already high. He once played three pieces for Wang Huizhi, a stranger (namely "Three Alleys of Plum Blossoms", which has been passed down through the ages), and was passed down as a historical story.
Lv Hou of Law in Qing Dynasty records: "The Ming Dynasty was a straight flute, but there was no clarinet. Today, the flute is one foot eight inches long and weak. It blows from the top and has a hole at the back. The flute blows horizontally without a back hole. "