To trace the historical origin of Hulusi. Recently, after conducting research in ethnic minority areas in Yunnan, reporters found that the auspicious birthplace of Hulusi and the legend about the origin of Hulusi are widely believed to be in the hometown of Hulusi - Meng, Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan. There are many beautiful and moving legends there as early as the pre-Qin era.

Hulusi has a very long history, which can be traced back to the pre-Qin era. There are many moving legends circulated among the people. It is said that on the bank of the Mengyang River in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, a flash flood broke out and a person died. A brave little Bu Mao from the Dai family picked up a big gourd and braved the stormy waves to rescue his sweetheart. The Buddha was moved by his loyal love and inserted a bamboo tube into the golden gourd and gave it to the brave little Bu Mao. Xiao Bu took the golden gourd with his hand and immediately blew out the beautiful music. Suddenly, the sea was calm, the flowers were in bloom, the peacocks were in full bloom, and the blessings brought good luck and happiness to the couple. From then on, the cucurbit silk was passed down to the Mengyang Dai family in Lianghe County, and the De'ang, Jingpo, and Achang ethnic groups in Lianghe also came to learn from the scriptures. It has successively expanded to the entire Dehong and other ethnic areas, and has been passed down from generation to generation——

Hulusi is a reed instrument used by the Lianghe Dai, Deang, and Achang people from ancient times to the present. It still maintains the characteristics of ancient musical instruments. The method of playing is natural ventilation or cyclic ventilation. By using the circulatory ventilation method, you can continuously produce intervals of fifths, and the tone is beautiful, soft, mellow, tactful, and lifelike. In a bamboo forest or a Dai bamboo house on a moonlit night, it can give people a subtle and hazy sense of beauty, and the vibrato is as elegant and gentle as shaking silk. The name of the gourd silk in Dai language is Julangdao (called Jugebao in De'ang and Paileweng in Achang), which means a wind instrument made of gourds. Translated into Chinese, it was once called Gourd Sheng and Gourd Xiao. Because it is different from the Hani people's Lusheng and Xiao (Xiao has no reed), literary and artistic workers named it Hulusi. Another theory is that in the early days of liberation, some literary and artistic workers went to the countryside to experience life, listened to the Dai people speaking inaccurate Chinese, and mistook sheng for silk. Relevant experts have verified that it is called Gourd Xiao, but it is not common. Since the 1980s, through the recommendation of professional talents such as Gong Quanguo and Gu Dequan, the name of Hulusi has been established and has been widely recognized.

The main function of Hulusi is for young men to express their feelings and express their love to young women. Its development has gone through three stages: natural popularization, decline, and improvement and sublimation. Before the Cultural Revolution, gourds were a medium for young Dai men to convey their love to young women, and could not be used in elegant halls. After the Cultural Revolution, the method of stringing girls with gourd silk was gradually replaced by other methods. Thanks to the efforts of professional talents, Hulusi began to enter the professional stage. After the 1980s, talents in the Lianghe Dai music scene emerged in large numbers, including a number of professional and amateur literary and artistic backbones such as Gong Quanguo, Gong Jiaming, Gu Dequan, Li Zhongpei, Feng Shaoxing, Du Deguang, Gong Tingzheng, etc. The most representative of them is Gong Quanguo , Gu Dequan, Gong Jiaming and other professionals from Liang. In terms of performance, Gong Quanguo, a young cucurbit flute player from the Dai ethnic group, stood out in the 1980s and was the first to bring the art of cucurbit flute to the stage with his extraordinary masterpieces. Gong Jiaming also contributed to the production and composition of Hulusi. The nationally famous composer Shi Guangnan composed the music "Phoenix Tail Bamboo under the Moonlight", which made Hulusi music popular all over the country. It is particularly worth mentioning that the rising star Hulusi Prince Gu Dequan is making a splash in today's Chinese and even international music circles.

The Dai, Deang and Achang ethnic groups in Lianghe have profound national cultural heritage. Hulusi, the most distinctive traditional folk instrument, has a long history of being made by folk artists of the Dai and De'ang ethnic groups in Mengyang, Mangdong, Hexi, Zhedao and other places where the Dai people are the main residents. According to the two brothers Sha Yongxing and Sha Yongming from Mangbeng Village in Mengyang Town and their father, Jing Yanli from Nitang, Mo Anrong from Mangyan, Feng Shaoxing from Banggai, Yang Dexian and Yang Zhongping from the Deang ethnic group in Ergucheng, Hexi Township Famous folk artists such as his father and son all said that the skills of playing and making cucurbit flutes were passed down from their grandfathers. The cucurbit flutes they made were sold to surrounding counties and cities such as Luxi, Ruili, Longchuan, and Yingjiang, and were popular among the Dai people. , De'ang, Jingpo, and Achang people welcome it, and it is particularly common to exchange cucurbit silk with Achang craftsmen in Husa, Longchuan for Husa knives.

Dehong, originated from the Dai language, was named because of its geographical location, meaning "the place downstream of the Nu River". Dehong is the "ancient Mengmao Kingdom" recorded in the Beiye Sutra, the "Dianyue Chengxiang Kingdom" written by Sima Qian, and the "Golden Teeth Kingdom" in "Marco Polo's Travels". The famous song "There is a Beautiful Place" sung from north to south praises Dehong, a magical and beautiful place, a land ready for development. Dehong is a beautiful and magical place that integrates borders, ports, ethnic groups, and hot spots. It has a beautiful natural environment, a flat dam, fertile land, rich products, active border trade, unique ethnic customs, and rich ethnic cultural resources. It is praised at home and abroad. It is the "hometown of peacocks" and "the homeland of singing and dancing".

Dehong is located in the subtropics, with a mild climate, abundant rainfall, no severe cold in winter, no scorching heat in summer, dense forests, and rich wildlife resources. It has always been the home of the green peacock, a national first-level protected wild animal. The origin of the green peacock. All ethnic groups in Dehong love and identify with peacocks. In ancient times, the ancestors of Dehong worshiped the peacock as a totem of primitive religion. After the middle of the 11th century, the Dai, De'ang and Achang people in Longchuan successively believed in Buddhism.

The peacock is regarded as an auspicious bird and a divine bird in Buddhist scriptures, and is the incarnation of Buddha. Various peacock shapes are carved on Buddhist temple buildings, and peacocks are also carved on niches, Buddhist seats, murals, and colorful couplets. Peacock feathers are inserted on the altar tables, and various peacock crafts are displayed. At the same time, peacocks have also walked out of Buddhist temples and entered people's daily life: peacocks are carved on the railings of the Dehong Dai family's birth house, peacocks are posted on the doors, and peacocks are inserted into the bullock carts of the 1950s and 1960s. Model.

In long-term social practice and life practice, the people of all ethnic groups in Dehong have created a rich, colorful and profound peacock culture. The ancestors of the Dai people were envious of birds and imitated the peacock's spread of wings and wings to create the peacock dance, which has been loved by future generations for a long time. During festivals, people of all ethnic groups dance and entertain themselves. Since then, peacock dance has become popular and famous at home and abroad. At the Munao Zong Song and Dance Hall of the Jingpo people, Naoshuang Naoba's headdress is decorated with peacock feathers. It is said that the silver bubbles on Jingpo's bag and the silver bubbles on women were all learned from peacocks, and the silver bubble dance is to imitate the opening of the peacock's tail.

Peacock culture is a fusion of many ethnic cultures, including the "Guozhanbi Culture" of the Dai people, the "Munao Zongge Culture" of the Jingpo people, the "Aluwoluo culture" of the Achang people, and the De'ang people. The "Ailao culture" of the Lisu people and the "Kuoshi culture" of the Lisu people. In the past half century, among all the articles recording Dehong, "the hometown of peacocks" has appeared most frequently. This fully shows that the people of Dehong have been playing the "peacock" card in their hearts, and it has gradually been recognized by the outside world. Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, established on July 23, 1953, is one of the eight ethnic minority autonomous prefectures in Yunnan Province. Dehong is located in the southwest of Yunnan Province, bordering the northern part of the Union of Myanmar, with a border length of 503.8 kilometers and a land area of ??11,526 square kilometers. The total population of the prefecture is 1.0678 million, and ethnic minorities such as Dai, Jingpo, Achang, Lisu and De'ang account for 51.7% of the total population. The whole prefecture governs two cities and three counties: Luxi City, Ruili City, Longchuan County, Yingjiang County, and Lianghe County. The state capital is located in Mangshi Town, Luxi City, 649 kilometers away from the provincial capital Kunming by land and 427 kilometers by air.

Dehong has a beautiful natural environment, splendid history and culture, unique ethnic customs, prominent location advantages and rich natural resources, and is known as the "Hometown of Peacocks". The most outstanding characteristics of Dehong are condensed in the four words "border, love, green and treasure". "Border" refers to the long Dehong border. The Dehong section of the China-Myanmar border is a famous peace border, commercial border, and unique border in the country. Dehong is not only the main exit of the historically famous Southern Ancient Silk Road, the "Shu Shen Poison Road" and the intersection of the Burma Highway and the China-India Highway, it is still an important link between southwest my country and Southeast Asia and South Asia. The land port is also an important port for Yunnan’s foreign trade. On the 503.8-kilometer national border, there are two national first-class ports, Ruili and Wanding, and two national second-class ports, Zhangfeng and Yingjiang. It is the only Ruili border in China that implements the special customs supervision model of "within the territory and outside the customs". Trade zone; among 28 ferries and 64 passages, 9 roads are connected to the Stilwell Highway in Myanmar. Inland commodities can pass through the Bhamo Waterway, Myitkyina Waterway and railway without detouring through the Strait of Malacca. Transport it to Yangon and exit the Indian Ocean; or go north from the Stilwell Highway and directly enter the Middle East along the India-Pakistan Railway and go to the world. It is the most convenient international land passage from my country to Myanmar, India, Southeast Asia, and South Asia. There are 26 towns and villages in the whole prefecture adjacent to Myanmar. On both sides of the border, the same ethnic group lives across the border. The villages are connected, and the streets are connected. They marry each other, live on the same street, and drink from the same river. There is "one well, two countries." , "one hospital, two countries", "one village, two countries" and even "one dam, two countries and three cities" are border wonders. "Sentiment" means that Dehong has colorful national cultural customs. Folk customs such as the Water Splashing Festival of the De'ang people of the Dai people, the Munao Zong Song Festival of the Jingpo people, the Kuo Shi Festival of the Lisu people, and the Aluwoluo Festival of the Achang people have their own characteristics. Each ethnic group is good at singing and dancing, and has a profound traditional cultural heritage. The people of China and Myanmar enjoy good-neighborly friendship, and the "Paukphaw" friendship has a long history. The profound Paukphaw affection, rich national sentiments, unique religious sentiments, and beautiful landscape sentiments of the Chinese and Myanmar people are everywhere. Marshal Chen Yi's famous poem "I live at the head of the river, you live at the tail of the river, our love for each other is infinite, and we drink water from the same river" is a vivid portrayal of the friendship between China and Myanmar. "Green" means that Dehong is a subtropical area with abundant sunshine and abundant rainfall. The average annual temperature is 18.7℃-20.3℃, and the average annual rainfall is 1400mm-1700mm. There is no severe cold in winter and no scorching heat in summer. Flowers bloom and fruits bloom all year round. End the year. The state's forest coverage rate is 61.2% and it is rich in wild animal and plant resources. It is known as the "Kingdom of Animals and Plants" and the "Gene Bank of Tropical and Subtropical Species". Looking around, it feels like you are in a green ocean. As long as you come to Dehong, you can breathe green air, taste green food, enjoy a green mood, and experience harmony in the green nature. It can be said that Dehong is the most suitable place for human habitation that integrates health, leisure, tourism, vacation, residence and entertainment. "Treasure" means that Dehong is close to Myanmar, the world-famous jewelry and jade producing area, and adjacent to the Kachin State of Myanmar, the "hometown of emeralds", with various red and sapphires, jade, agate, especially hundreds of millions of years of tree fossils, tree-turned jade, etc. Rare treasures are unique to Dehong, and Dehong Ruili City, the "Oriental Jewelry City", has become the largest jewelry and jade trading market and distribution center in China.

Yunnan Hulusi mainly originates from the Dehong area of ??Yunnan and is rich in local ethnic color.

This instrument uses a natural gourd as the blowing pot. Three purple bamboo tubes or phoenix bamboo tubes of different lengths are inserted side by side at the lower end of the gourd. The longer one in the middle is called the main tube with seven holes. The two adjacent pipes are called auxiliary pipes, one for treble and one for bass. There are plum blossom button type and push type. The upper end of the gourd is called the mouthpiece, which refers to pressing the sound hole of the middle tube. When the melody is played, the two left and right bamboo tubes simultaneously emit a fixed single tone, forming a harmony with the melody. Its music is soft and delicate, mellow and simple, and highly expressive. It is deeply loved by the people of Yunnan. Its beautiful sound can be heard in both folk music and professional stages. In recent years, with the continuous efforts of the Hulusi Prince: Teacher Gu Dequan and the strong support of the country, it is now attracting attention at home and abroad. The signature image of a Dai man, Gu Dequan, is his big beard. In his words, he looks "extremely original", has a scumbag appearance, and is famous for being a low-key person. Early last year, he performed in the spring city of Kunming with the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. Accompanying him, he performed a New Year's concert that blended Yunnan folk music with Western music. Over the years, he has also been invited by official cultural departments to visit and perform in the United States, Switzerland, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other countries and regions. and lectures, and cultural exchanges. Gu Dequan was born into a Dai farmer family in Banggai Village, Mengyang Town, Lianghe County. Almost every household here has a cucurbit flute. Of the ten Mengyang people, nine can play the Tao (the Dai people call hulusi and other wind instruments "Tao"). Cu Dequan's grandfather, grandpa, and uncle are famous Hulusi teachers in Mengyang. , his mother is a famous folk singer, and he comes from a "hulusi family". He learned hulusi and bawu playing and production from his father and uncle since he was a child. During the years when he was herding horses in his hometown, he played the cucurbit on horseback for 9 years. Silk. After he turned 16, he visited famous local teachers and cultural figures such as Li Zhongpei to learn music theory and national wind and wind music, and learned professional and standardized performance techniques, which greatly improved his performance skills. His unique inheritance, coupled with superhuman diligence and hard work, have honed his solid foundation and flexible skills. He said: "As a musician, hard work is not enough. You must be diligent, endure loneliness, and feel and explore the essence of music with true feelings and sincerity." In 1989, Teacher Dequan published the first Zhang Hulusi music album was the first person in China and even the world to release a Hulusi music album. It caused a strong sensation. The album was called a wonderful sound of nature. The supply of one edition and one reprint was still in short supply, setting a new record in China and the world. The circulation of Hulusi audio and video works is the highest in the world, and the albums are sold to Europe. Hulusi is called Oriental Saxophone. While inheriting the essence of his predecessors, Gu Dequan continued to innovate in cucurbit performance and production. He changed the 7 holes of the traditional cucurbit flute to 9 holes, which increased the difficulty of playing, but the range of the sound was greatly expanded. Through breath and fingering control, he could play a rising and falling tone of less than half a degree. Mr. Yu Xunfa, the Chinese national wind master, said that the charm of Gu Dequan's performance is unique and the emotion and artistic conception it expresses are unparalleled. Over the years, Gu Dequan has shouldered the important task of disseminating and communicating Hulusi culture, spreading Dehong's folk art and customs at home and abroad. Therefore, he is known as the messenger of Hulusi culture at home and abroad. Lianghe County, the hometown of Gu Dequan, is now declared as the "Hometown of Hulusi". Some people say that it was blown out of his Hulusi. Gu Dequan was born in May 1958 in a village on the banks of the Mengyang River in Lianghe County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province. He loved music since he was a child and learned cucurbit playing and making from his grandfather and uncle at the age of 10. Gu Dequan worked in the Lianghe Sugar Factory and worked as a worker in the pump room of the factory. Through his love for cucurbits and years of hard work in farming, he worked hard to explore and achieved a high level in the performance and production of cucurbits. With his accomplishments, he has become a famous hulusi maker in the contemporary national music scene and a performer with the most, highest level and most representative cucurbit albums. He is deeply loved by the masses and is hailed as the generation of today's cucurbit performers. Grandmaster, Hulusi King. In the past 20 years, in addition to devoting himself to the performance and production of cucurbit flute, he has also focused on teaching and imparting the knowledge and skills of cucurbit flute. In addition to Chinese students, there are also students from Japan, Italy, France, the United States, etc. who follow him to learn cucurbit flute. Chinese students studying abroad have made Hulusi, a national treasure and national art, travel across the ocean, out of Yunnan, and into the world, where it has been widely spread. In the past few years, he has been specially invited by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture, Provincial TV Station, and Provincial Radio Station to perform and record music works of various genres. He has successively served as the Hulusi performer and lead singer in the dance drama "Splashing Festival", the opening ceremony of the First International Tourism Art Festival "The Song of the River" and other programs. Yunnan Provincial Audio and Video Publishing House published and released his album "Sentimental Hulusi", etc. Multiple cassette tapes. The agency also launched the country's first set of Hulusi and Bawu audio tutorials and supporting VCD disc "The Charm of Dai Wind", which he co-edited with Yang Zhiyu and Li Chunhua. Teacher Quan Dequan once told a radio reporter: "In the past, Hulusi was very folk. It could only be played more often and could not be played with instruments such as bands and pianos. I have made great efforts to really standardize the tuning of Hulusi. "It's very fast and easy to play the songs composed by "Phoenix Tail Bamboo in the Moonlight". I guarantee that you can learn two songs in three days, but it is too difficult to learn well. I have a good friend who is a flute player. I came into contact with Hulusi 20 years ago. The flute and Hulusi are similar. He can play with the band in an hour. But he has been playing for more than 20 years. One day he met me on the street and told Dequan. , it’s too difficult, I will never be able to achieve the feeling you have after 20 years of playing.

"The Hulusi made by Mr. Dequan was very popular. When Mrs. Thatcher came to China, she liked Hulusi very much. He gave her two pieces. In order to make the hometown of Hulusi famous, he opened the studio He moved back to his hometown from Kunming and encouraged the villagers to grow more gourds, and he was responsible for the sales. In August 2003, Teacher Dequan took the opportunity of returning home to hold a "Hometown Love" Hulusi Festival in Lianghe. The concert reflects the deep affection of the folk artist rooted in his hometown. He has made great contributions to the world's understanding of the Dai people and Hulusi. He was born in Meng, Lianghe County, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province in May 1958. In a village on the bank of Yangjiang River, he has been passionate about music since he was a child. He learned how to play and make Hulusi from his grandfather and uncle at the age of 10. He has been working hard and exploring for more than 20 years, and has achieved great results in the performance and production of Hulusi. At present, in addition to focusing on the performance and production of hulusi, he also focuses on teaching; imparting the knowledge and skills of hulusi playing. In addition to Chinese students, there are also students from Japan, Italy, France, and the United States who follow him to learn hulusi performance. Overseas students from China have made Hulusi, a national art, more widely spread across the sea. In the past few years, it has been specially invited by the Yunnan Provincial Department of Culture, the Provincial TV Station, and the Provincial Radio Station to perform and record various musical works. He served as the cucurbit performer and lead singer in the dance drama "Splashing Festival", the opening ceremony of the First International Tourism Art Festival "The Song of the River" and other programs. Yunnan Audio and Video Publishing House published and released his album "Sentimental Hulusi" audio tape. The club also released the first set of audio tutorials on Hulusi and Bawu in China, which he co-edited with Yang Zhiyu and Li Chunhua, and the accompanying VCD "The Charm of Dai Wind", which also embodies both types of Hulusi instruments and modern electronic musical instruments. The perfect combination of musical instruments presents a warm and intoxicating new feeling of the combination of classical and modern. The Hulusi Prince--Teacher Gu Dequan, comes from a Dai family. The Dai people are versatile and good at singing and dancing. Whether you are rowing a dragon boat in the river or playing "Gaosheng" (using cucurbit silk as a musical instrument) on the riverside, "catching up" in the square or drinking and feasting in a bamboo house, you can hear the moving singing. Yunnan Nineteen Monsters: Gourds can be made into musical instruments and sold, and they can also play music.