Thirty-six spring also. From the sound of bamboo genus. Feather all cut.
Yu, ancient reed, like Sheng and larger, the number of tube is also more. The Warring States period to the Han Dynasty was widely circulated.
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“Han Fei Zi · solutions to old”: “Yu also, five times as long, so Yu Chung se with the first, and then all the singing and music are”. Its shape is like Sheng and the larger, musicians and stone relief of the Han Dynasty in many image play the Yu (“Chinese music history” of Ⅱ – 64, Ⅱ – 67 and Ⅱ – 70). According to “Zhou Chun Sheng Shi” officer Zheng Xuan, Xu Shen “Shuowen Jiezi”, Shao “customs clearance justice” and other records, Yu is a gourd instrument. People all know that “pretend to play the Yu” story, can be seen in the ancient popular. The ancients Huang Tao penned a “provincial test — playing” a poem: “Qi Yu this history test, is not difficult to know the truth. In order to make sound not, shall be to the one blowing. Has no complex, whether stand stagger. In order to teach single inlet, palace business is different to.”
The structure of the original shape after thirty-six, reduced to twenty-three, 78 cm high. Yu, Yu wooden bucket mouth, painted crimson lacquer. Twenty-two tubes, with diameter of about 0.8 cm of bamboo shaving system, most better 78 cm, the shortest 14 cm. Before and after the two row is inserted in the Yu Dou, each row eleven, fixed with four to five bamboo hoop. The upper end of a crimson Luo Qi for decoration. The front of a long Yu tube is inserted with a horny “plug”. The Yu tube and its adjacent lower end of one long Yu tube has two according to the hole, near the two pipe inside Yu Dou has two holes. The rear two long tube have similar circumstances. Reference in 1972 unearthed Changsha No.1 Mawangdui Han Yu (China) twenty-two, before and after the two row. They may be set for the folding tube.
