Folk music "Dai Ancient Tune" from the album "Music Map of China Hear Yunnan Dai, Jingpo, Hani folk songs Collection"

Dai Ancient Tune

Improvisational nationality: Dai Nationality Region: Yunnan

Hulusi: Gong Zheng

Mengyang Town is located in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, at the border of China and Myanmar in the southwest, where hulusi is the hometown. Cucurbit flute, also known as gourd flute, is said to have evolved from the sheng in the Central Plains to the southwest. Its shape is to insert three bamboo pipes into the bottom of a natural complete gourd, and each part of the bamboo pipe into the gourd is inlaid with a reed. When blown, the gourd is the air chamber and the mouth of the gourd is the mouthpiece.

In Mengyang River, there is a beautiful legend of the birth of cucurbit flute, Dai young people Sang Liang missed in the flood to save his lover Shaoyu died, in the river where they used to plant gourds and bamboo, he heard the wind over the gourds whine, he combined the two plants together to make gourds xiao, that is, cucurbit flute, he played against the river every night. The melody of blowing became the earliest hulusi melody - the ancient song.