Konoha is the simplest and oldest musical instrument. In the hunting era of primitive society, onomatopoeia was used to hunt birds and birds, and later it was gradually transformed into an instrument that replaced music with sound and sang with sound. For thousands of years, the rumor of blowing wood leaves has not faded, but it was found in historical records later.

Tang Dynasty

In the Tang Dynasty, blowing wood leaves was more popular, and it also occupied a place in the royal court band, and was officially used in the "Qingle" of "Ten Bu Music". "Old Tang Book Musical Records" called the blowing tree leaves "howling leaves". And describe the court music "Ye Er Ge Er". Indicates that there are two singers and two leaf accompanists in the band. In the Tang Dynasty, Du Mou, who served as the Jiedushi of Lingnan, was good at studying leaf blowing. He said in the "Tong Dian" (Volume 114): "When you hold a leaf and whistle, the sound is clear and shocking, and the orange pomelo (leaf) is especially good; or Yunjuan reed leaves are used for this, like the head of a bamboo shoot." "New Book of Tang Music Records" even more clearly recorded that there was "one person blowing leaves" during the banquet. It is worth mentioning that the band must also have blowing leaves when playing important pieces such as "Jingyun River Qingge" and "Neon Clothes and Feather Clothes". At this time, Konoha has doubled in value and received a grand courtesy. Bai Juyi, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, vividly wrote in "Eight Poems of Willow Branches" (6): "The little girl of the Su family (Su Xiaoxiao, a singing prostitute of the Six Dynasties) was well-known in the past, and she has special feelings in front of the willow and willow, peeling strips and coils to make silver rings. In the same way, the rolling leaves are blown as the sound of a jade flute." Lang Shiyuan, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, described it more vividly in the poem "The Two Songs of Hearing the Poplar Leaves": "The wonderful blowing of the poplar leaves is sad, and the Huma winds with hatred. It is a cold moonlit night at the Yanmen Gate, and at this time all the shocking sand should be swept away.” "Natural art is even more incoherent, and the bright and quiet sounds are wonderful. When you blow to the place where you leave and climb, you should have a heartbroken person." It can be seen that people at that time talked about the high skill of Konoha playing and the touching charm of music. . In the late Tang Dynasty, there was a singer named Liuzhi in Luoyang. At the age of 17, she was already good at blowing leaves. With the accompaniment of the orchestra, she could play the "Song of the Wind and Waves of the Sky and Sea, and the voice of resentment and resentment." ”, which makes the listeners all gasp and shock. In the documents of the Tang Dynasty, there are also records of the words of the ethnic minorities in southwest China playing the leaves. In the Nanzhao area at that time (now Dali, Yunnan), young men and women often used the sound of leaves to express their love when they were in love. Fan Chuo's "Man Shu" in the Tang Dynasty said: "In the customary way, virgins and widows are not allowed to come and go. Young children parade through Luxiang in the evening, blowing pots and lusheng or blowing leaves. In the rhythm, they all send love words and call them with pictures. "

Former Shu

Among the twenty-four music and dance relief sculptures in the tomb of Wang Jian, the former emperor of Shu during the Five Dynasties in Chengdu, Sichuan, one of them is an image of a musician playing with Konoha in his mouth. In the left hand, he also holds a bunch of leaves for use, with a lifelike expression.

The above fully proves that as early as more than 1,000 years ago, Konoha was not only widely circulated among the people, but also a commonly used musical instrument in the court bands of the Tang Dynasty and the former Shu.