With a long history, the long drum originated from the ancient slender-waisted drum. From the aspects of its shape and characteristics, popular regions and usage occasions, it has many similarities with the yellow mud drum. Its drum shape is similar to that of the public yellow mud drum. Therefore, when historical records and documents of the past dynasties recorded such drums used by the Yao people, they were also called waist drums, long waist drums, long hous, and long drums.

Before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many types of long drums, including ordinary long drums and extra-large long drums. Among ordinary long drums, there were long drums and short drums. Gu Yanwu's "Book of Diseases for the Benefit of the Country and the Country" in the Ming Dynasty contained: "Hengren competes with Pangu, ... the drum is made of wood, the diameter of which is about a mile in diameter, and the two ends are large in the hollow. Four feet are called 'long drums'; two feet are called '' short drum'."
As early as the Song Dynasty in the 12th century, the Yao people were able to make long drums. But they don't give each other away, they don't sell, and they all have them in Zhaizhai. In the Southern Song Dynasty Fan Chengda's "Guihai Yuheng Zhi": "Nao drum, Yao people play music, like a waist drum, the cavity is twice as long, the upper is sharp and the lower is extravagant, and it is also planted on the ground with a leather scorpion, sitting on it." It is also an ancient slender waist drum. Variation of musical instruments. Popular in Guangxi, Guangdong and other Yao inhabited areas. Mainly used for dance accompaniment.