Bamboo pounding tube, the Gaoshan people beat down the body sound musical instrument. In Gaoshan language, it is called pagoda, which means bamboo. Bamboo tamping tube, developed from water-filled utensils, is a folk musical instrument created by the people of the Gaoshan Shao tribe. In every village near Sun Moon Lake, there are many bamboo tamping tubes of different lengths, each 130 cm to 170 cm high.
Whenever there is sacrifice and entertainment, the young people use it to hit the ground and make a thumping sound. The local villagers call it "bamboo drum". When the "bamboo drum" sounded, the girls gathered around and danced happily to the rhythm of the "drum".
In the 1920s, bamboo tamping tubes were used in viewing programs in the tourism industry. In the open space beside Sun Moon Lake, when several or a dozen girls played with a musical pestle, sang and danced, there were also several women squatting together, holding a bamboo pounding tube more than a foot long and gently hitting the slate. Send out a beautiful sound to accompany the clanging music pestle for tourists to watch.
In the early 1980s, young musicians Lan Xuefei, Liu Yihong and others in Fujian Province made more than ten bamboo tamping tubes of different sizes and fixed pitches, the shortest being only 17 cm and the longest 73 cm. , they can strike the melody on the slate, which significantly enriches the expressive ability of the bamboo masher.