"Silk" refers to strings, including playing and pulling strings, and "bamboo" refers to wind music. Compared with percussion instruments, silk and bamboo instruments are a group of national instruments with strong melody, softer tone and brighter tone. Most of the music on silk and bamboo is delicate, gentle, beautiful and elegant, and is good at expressing happy feelings. Silk and bamboo music is produced and popular in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai areas with developed economy and culture. Small and light, exquisite and elegant, it fully embodies and represents Jiangnan culture and is a specific product of Jiangnan culture.
In Rites and Music, "the stone, silk and bamboo are musical instruments" refers to various musical instruments and also describes various sounds. The phrase "no complicated ears, no complicated forms" in "Humble Room Inscription" means that there is no complicated music disturbing the peace of ears and no complicated government affairs exhausting the body. Here "silk" refers to stringed instruments and "bamboo" refers to wind instruments.
Silk and bamboo represent music.
In the process of historical inheritance and development, the music of silk and bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River has accumulated and formed a series of representative music, which is the crystallization of the wisdom of musicians in the process of historical inheritance, commonly known as "playing" music (Shanghai people call it "white"), and these music composers can't do it.
There are three or six series: Liu Laosan, Fast Flower Third-rate, Flower Third-rate, China Third-rate and Slow Flower Third-rate (slow three Sixth for short); Eight boards series: old eight boards (abbreviated as eight boards), old six boards (abbreviated as six boards), fast flower six boards, flower six boards, Chinese flower six boards, slow flower six boards, etc.