The Dai Hulusi is a traditional musical instrument of the Dai people in China. It is mainly spread among the Dai people and is common in Dehong and Lincang areas.

Also known as Gourd Xiao. This musical instrument uses half a small gourd as a speaker, and three bamboo tubes of different lengths are inserted side by side at the lower end of the gourd's bamboo tube, embedded with copper sheets. The longer bamboo tube in the middle has seven holes. When playing, blow the thin end of the gourd with your mouth and press the sound hole of the middle bamboo tube with your fingers. While playing the melody, 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. It also attracts much attention at home and abroad. The ensemble of some cucurbit flute instruments and modern electronic instruments can also reflect the perfect combination of the two instruments, presenting a cordial, gentle, warm and intoxicating new feeling of combining classical and modern music.

The Dai people are versatile and good at singing and dancing. During the festival, whether you are rowing a dragon boat in the river or launching "Gaosheng" (earth rockets made of bamboo tubes) by the river, "rushing" in the square or drinking and feasting in a bamboo house, you can listen to it. To the moving singing. The calabash flute is a very distinctive musical instrument with a unique shape and structure. It consists of a complete gourd, 3 bamboo tubes and a flat metal reed, with a total length of about 30 cm. A bamboo tube is inserted into the handle end of the gourd as the mouthpiece, and the entire gourd is used as an air box. Three bamboo tubes of different thicknesses are inserted into the bottom of the gourd. Each bamboo tube inserted into the gourd is inlaid with a copper or silver spring. piece. The bamboo tube in the middle is the thickest, with 7 sound holes (6 on the front and 1 on the back), which can blow out an octave of melody sounds from g to g', which is called the main tube. The auxiliary pipes on both sides only have reeds on them and no sound holes. They can only produce the same harmonic sound as the main pipe. Usually the thinner bamboo pipes sound a and the thinnest sound e'. When playing the gourd flute, hold the mouthpiece upward, hold it on one side of your mouth, and hold the flute body upright. Press the sound hole with your left and right fingers. With your right hand on top, press the back hole with your thumb. Press the three holes on the front with your index, middle and ring fingers. Use your left hand to press the sound hole. Press the remaining 3 holes, and the airflow will enter the 3 nozzles at the same time to produce sound. The volume is small, and the tone of the main pipe is soft and delicate. Set off by the continuous sound of the two auxiliary pipes, it gives people a subtle and hazy beauty. Because the vibrato it blows is as elegant and soft as shaking silk, it is also called "Hulusi".