What are the origins and legends of the Lisu people?

Legend has it that in ancient China, music at that time was not a musical instrument, but

It is a sacrificial vessel, which is used for sacrificial activities. It is people who pray to the gods to bless the harvest.

Animal husbandry is prosperous. According to legend, at that time, basically every village had a house dedicated to housing. Fangfang is also the religious sacrifice center of the whole village, which is equivalent to a temple. When these two ritual vessels are old, people will make new ones. Then one day, the tribal leader decided to make a new brick. He first had to do divination, and according to divination, he decided on the day to go up the mountain and choose wood to make bricks.

On the day of choosing trees on the mountain, the leader looked at the hexagrams again and decided which direction to choose according to the results of the hexagrams. After the direction was determined, people began to choose rafts to drift up the mountain.

This usually involves selecting three or five large poplars, and then cutting a bark from each tree and taking it back to the village. When people returned to the village, tribal leaders began to take the whole village to pull wood to make bows.

At that time, there could be one or two or three priests in charge. During cooking, several families took turns to kill pigs and cattle for the whole village. If the priest has difficulties, rice, vegetables, water, wine and beef are provided by the whole stockade family, and the priest is only responsible for the operation.

On the day of the ceremony, the tribal leader took the young people in the stockade to the selected tree, and the leader recited a spell to exorcise ghosts. The content is to open the grass essence and small tree essence that may be hurt by cutting trees around and let them change places. In addition, please leave the tree spirits and other gods attached to them.

Finally, the tribal leader sprinkled rice, salt and other sacrifices around the red-haired tree, and he read the eulogy while sprinkling. After repeated several times, people around threw darts and guns at the tree to drive away evil spirits that were not good for people. After driving away, people began to cut down trees with peace of mind.

When cutting down a tree, the tribal leader takes the lead in cutting the first knife on the tree, and then the young people around him take turns cutting down the tree. After the tree was cut down, the tribal leader put a stone on the stump, read a eulogy and asked the tree god to have the tree pulled back to the stockade smoothly. Finally, the tribal leader measured the length of the brick to be made, and then the young and middle-aged boys cut it down and brought it back to the village to make bricks.

On the day of making furniture, people in the village should dress up and come to the mountain early to express their gratitude to the mountain gods. Before making rafters, people cut a hole at each end of the tree segment for rattan ropes to pass through.

After people make rafters, tribal leaders will sprinkle rice, water and wine in front of people's teams, and people will sing labor trumpets loudly and March forward with neat steps. The priest will entertain people with wine and meat under the big green trees on the roadside.

After the ceremony, people should put the house in the house so that the house can continue to pray for the protection of the gods.

In fact, this is just a legendary story about two ancient wooden musical instruments in China.

According to the records of ancient documents and handed down objects in China, it is a wooden musical instrument, shaped like a tiger, with a serrated thin board on its back, and played with a bamboo tube with one end split into several thin stems. Generally used at the end of music in Chinese elegant music, it is an important part of court elegant music.

The shape of ancient Nuo instruments is very special. It is made of wood, carved with the shape of a tiger, painted with yellow paint and painted with black stripes, and the stripes on the chest and abdomen are slightly mixed with white. Khufu's ears are erect, his forehead is white, his teeth are sharp, and there are 27 square sawdust on his back, which is shaped like a box and dyed with four colors of indigo, green, red and white at regular intervals.

Also, Zhang is an ancient wooden percussion instrument. Some people think that all musical instruments were made by the Emperor Qi of Xia Dynasty, which has a history of more than 4,000 years. These two musical instruments belong to the classification of ancient eight-tone musical instruments.

In the pre-Qin poetry anthology "The Book of Songs Zhou Song You You", there is a phrase "Zhu Bin", in which "Zhu" is Bang, which shows that the history of Bang goes back at least to the pre-Qin period. Xu Shen, a scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, introduced this instrument in Shuo Wen Jie Zi:

Bang, the music is empty, so stop for the festival.

It is also recorded in "China Old Tang Shu Yue Ji":

Zhang, more than two feet tall, opened the hole next to the staff and hit it in the middle with his hand.

This shows that the coffin looks like a square wooden box, which is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. When a mallet is struck on its inner wall, it makes a sound, indicating that music is about to start, which is widely used in court music in past dynasties.