Xiaoxiao, a musical instrument of the Dai people. It is popular in Menglian Dai, Lahu and Wa Autonomous County of Simao City, Yunnan Province and Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture.
The bamboo flute-shaped tube body is mostly made of bamboo tubes with bamboo joints.
The xiaoxiao tube is 25 cm long, and the diameter of the upper end is 2 cm to 2.5 cm. There is a bamboo joint at 9 cm from the upper end of the tube, and the other bamboo joints are transparent. An oval sounding hole is opened under the bamboo joint on the back of the tube body, and a ventilation hole is opened at the edge of the bamboo joint above the sounding hole in the pipe, so that the upper and lower ends of the bamboo joint can communicate with each other. There are five circular sound-pressing holes on the front of the pipe body, of which the first, third and fifth holes are slightly larger, and the second and fourth holes are slightly smaller. There is also a seven-hole flute.