"Silk" and "Bamboo" are two categories in the classification of musical instruments with eight tones in the Zhou Dynasty. Silk refers to playing stringed instruments and bamboo refers to bamboo wind instruments. Silk and bamboo music refers to the ensemble of bamboo wind instruments and stringed instruments, with meticulous playing style, beautiful and lyrical expression and lively interest. For example, the main musical instruments of Paige Band in Errentai are flute and Hu Si, the main musical instruments of Jiangnan Sizhu Band are flute and erhu, and the main musical instrument of Cantonese Opera Band is Yuehu. Famous songs such as "Thirty-six" and "Walking the streets and lanes" by Jiangnan Sizhu; Eight Horses Plum Blossom Exercises in Fujian Nanqu; The signature music of the duet "South Embroidered Pocket" and "Pushing Wheel" and so on.
As a form of performance, silk and bamboo (or orchestral string) have the words "Silk and bamboo are more harmonious" and "Where this song is first a song, then a orchestral string." Account. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, there have been many records about the combination form of silk and bamboo bands and the music of silk and bamboo, which shows that the music of silk and bamboo has a long history.