It has a long history. This drum existed from the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty 3,000 years ago. It is one of the earliest drum types in my country and has been widely used in the Warring States Period.
"Mandarin·Wuyu" has: "Zaichang (Chang: the name of the flag, draw the sun and the moon on its end.) Build a drum, and hold the scriptures Bingzhu (Jing: Military Book, 枹: Drum and Chu.), ten thousand people think of it as a square array. "Wei Zhao's note: "Drum, Jin drum is also, "Zhou Li": 'The general holds Jin drum'. Construction, it is said to be a pair of trees and a tree." "Book of Rites Mingtang" contains: "Yin Ying Drum". The note says: "Ying, it is also connected to the column." The patterns carved on the bronze wares of the Warring States Period and the stone portraits of the Han Dynasty in Yinan, Shandong have images of beating drums. In the Han Dynasty, most of the drums were decorated with tassel feathers.
Zhang Heng's "Tokyo Fu" in the Han Dynasty: "Drums and drums, trees and feathers." Yubao is made of Zhai tail (pheasant tail feathers), and the middle of the Yubao has tassel, which is made of silk and silk, etc., which can follow the wind. fluttering. "Sui Shu Music Records" contains: "Building a drum, Xiahou's foot is added, it is called a foot drum. The Yin people's column runs through it, which is called the yin drum. The Zhou people hang it, it is called the hanging drum. In modern times, it is inherited and planted. Consistently, it is called the construction of drums, and it is also done by Yin." The "Old Tang Shu" is the same as the "Sui Shu".

Jiangu is relatively rare in murals. There is an image of Jiangu in the murals in Cave 156 of the Tang Dynasty in the Dunhuang Grottoes, but the playing method is completely different. One person walks in front of the drum with his back on his back, and then one person walks and plays the drum with both hands. In Tiangong Jigong. This method is still used in civil society fire activities in the vast area of Hexi, Gansu Province. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial court has always used Jiangu. In the Ming Dynasty and Shao music and the Qing Dynasty priest music, Jiangu was the leading instrument for opening the ceremony. The Shenyang Palace Museum also collects this drum among the palace musical instruments of the past dynasties.