Tang Dynasty
From the beginning of the establishment of the Middle Ages, through Xingyuan, Zhenyuan, Yongzhen, Yuanhe, Changqing, to the 45 years of the second year of Baoli, Xiaohulei has been hiding in the inner palace. At the time of Emperor Wenzong Li Ang in Tang Dynasty, there was a palace man, Zheng Nv, who was good at playing Xiao Hu Lei, and it only began its prosperous period. "Yuef...
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Xiaohulei is a pipa-type stringed instrument that appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Longer history. As early as the 4th century AD, in the frescoes of Ajanta in western India, there were already stick-shaped lutes and pear-shaped lutes. Since the Han and Wei Dynasties, musicians from the Western Regions have settled down through the "Silk Road" to perform their art in the central region, and have...
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There are two versions of the legend of Xiao Hulei.
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In the 1960s, playwrights Ma Shaobo and Lu Jingyan wrote "Little Hulei", which narrated a story in the Tang Dynasty: Xiao Hulei was a precious musical instrument. According to legend, it has always been hidden in the emperor's palace. It was lost to the people, and later passed on, and it fell into the hands of a talented young man nam...
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