There are different records in the past dynasties with regard to the method of playing the chunyu. On the bronze shells unearthed from the ancient tomb of Shizhai Mountain in Jinning, Yunnan (about the Western Han Dynasty), there is a scene of a large group of Yunnan people holding religious ceremonies. , The bronze drum hangs on the side, and the chisel is hanging on the crossbar, and there is a person next to it and hits it ("Chinese Music History Illustrated Book" II-41). Provides us with vivid performance images. In addition, according to the records of "Southern History: Qi Shixing Wang Jian's Biography" and "Northern History: Dendrobium Zhengzhuan", a container was used to place water under the chun, "Kneeling carefully with the awning stem to inject the chun, and shaking the awn with the hand, the sound will be heard. Such as thunder" or "stroking it with a awning tube, its sound is extremely clear".

The above-mentioned ancient chun was lost to the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Song "Book of Music" contains a bell shaped like a bell with a bell tongue hanging inside. In Wang Qi's "Sancai Tuhui" in the Ming Dynasty, it was painted with the mouth facing up, also in the shape of "big up and small down", and it was hung on a wooden frame with a curved rope-shaped button. These chunyu and ancient chunyu have a big difference.
In the late Spring and Autumn Period, in 1984, a set of three pieces was unearthed from the top of the northern mountain of Dantu. The whole is oval-shaped, with a tiger-shaped button. The inside of the plate, shoulders and mouth are decorated with modified cloud and thunder patterns, and there are decorative patterns composed of eight small dragons on each side of the tunnel. Now in the Nanjing Museum.