Eight tones refer to eight musical instrument materials: gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, bamboo, wood.
Eight tones are also the general term for musical instruments in ancient China. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, musical instruments at that time were classified into eight categories according to their materials: gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, wood and bamboo. Eight tones was originally a title in ancient books, which was first seen in Zhou Li Chun Guan Master, and then gradually absorbed by various folk customs and religions. With the eight tones of Buddhism, Lechang, Musical Instrument and Zhenlong, it is an important part of our long-standing traditional culture and an important symbol of the history of temperament.
In ancient China, there was a method to classify musical instruments according to their making materials, which was called "Eight-tone Classification". The use of this musical instrument was strictly regulated in ancient times. This also formed the ritual and music civilization which appeared in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties and had a great and far-reaching influence on the development history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years. The existence of ritual and music system also laid the foundation for China traditional culture.
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"octave" also refers to folk musical instruments. For example, the musical instruments used in the Eight Music Concert in Wutai Mountain, Shanxi Province, include pipe, suona, sea flute, sheng, meidi, Xiao, hall drum, small drum, large cymbal, small cymbals, big gong and cloud gong. The Longlin Eight-tone Band of Zhuang nationality in Guangxi uses eight musical instruments: a pair of transverse flutes (flutes), a gaohu and an erhu, a small three-stringed instrument, a gong, a drum and a cymbal. Nanning Yongning Zhuang Eight Tones are mainly composed of big suona, small suona, five-hole flute, gong, drum, cymbal and Zhuang music drum.
Hainan Eight Tones, which are popular in Hainan, originated from Chaozhou music, and are named after using eight kinds of musical instruments, namely: Xian (erhu, coconut palm), Qin (yueqin, dulcimer, sanxian), Di (suona), Guan (long and short pipes), Xiao (horizontal Xiao, straight Xiao and dong Xiao), Gong and Gong. The musical instruments used in the Yi people's eight tones are erhu, a pair of circular flute (without membrane), and Niujiaohu, Wukui (small gong), drums and cymbals.
The eight tones of the Gelao nationality, also known as the Eight Immortals, are played by erhu, a pair of transverse flutes and five cymbals, gongs, drums and cymbals.