http://www.chinesemusicworld.com/modules/article/view.article.php/17/c2 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:55:14 +1800 ARTICLE @ XOOPS powered by FeedCreator http://www.chinesemusicworld.com/modules/article/images/logo.png http://www.chinesemusicworld.com/modules/article/ 92 52 Article XML en admin at chinesemusicworld dot com admin at chinesemusicworld dot com Article/知识库 http://www.chinesemusicworld.com/modules/article/view.article.php/17/c2 xiao ( 箫 ) is a Chinese vertical end-blown flute. It is generally made of dark brown bamboo (called "purple bamboo" in Chinese). It is also sometimes (particularly in Taiwan) called dòngxiāo (simplified Chinese: 洞箫), dòng meaning "hole." An ancient name for the xiāo is shùdí (竖笛, lit. "vertical bamboo flute") but the name xiāo in ancient times also included the side-blown bamboo flute, dizi.

The xiāo is a very ancient Chinese instrument usually thought to have developed from a simple end-blown flute used by the Qiang people of Southwest China. The modern six-hole form of the instrument goes back to the Ming Dynasty.
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