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The origin of music in human society can be traced back to the very ancient prehistoric times.

Before humans had language, they already knew how to use the pitch, strength, etc. of sounds to express their thoughts and feelings.

With the development of human labor, unified labor gradually emerged

Rhythmic chants and shouts to transmit information to each other are the most primitive The prototype of music; when people celebrate harvests and share the fruits of labor,

often knock stone and wooden tools to express joy and joy. This is the prototype of primitive musical instruments.

a. The legend of the origin of stringed instruments

Mercury is the messenger of the gods in Greek mythology.

One day he was walking along the Nile River and accidentally stepped on something.

The thing made a beautiful sound.

He picked it up and saw that it was an empty turtle shell with a dry tendon attached to the inside.

So Mercury

was inspired by it and invented the stringed instrument.

Later generations have verified that string instruments appeared before Mercury, but the invention of string instruments may have been inspired by this

b. The legend of the origin of wind instruments

In ancient China, during the Yellow Emperor period five thousand years ago, there was a musician named Ling Lun. Legend has it that he once entered the Kunlun Mountains in the west.

Gather bamboo to make a flute.

At that time, there happened to be five phoenixes flying in the sky, and he followed their sounds and made laws.

Although this legend is not completely credible,

It is not a bad idea to regard it as the origin of wind instruments.

Human beings in the primitive era, their working life can be said to have developed and developed in the company of music, and the two are closely linked.

In this sense, music is produced directly from human labor life.

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A primitive man 200 million years ago discovered that knocking on objects of different textures would produce different sounds. To his surprise, he also found that the huge sound of knocking was also loud. It can scare beasts, and this should be the earliest form of music.

As for the record of music score, it should be in ancient Egypt. The Egyptian civilization is one of the oldest civilizations in the world.

From the carvings on the stone wall of the pyramid, which is an ancient tomb of the emperor, you can see the grand scene of music playing and the procession of music players. There are harp-like string instruments played with fingers, and various Flute instruments.

The origin of Greek music is also shrouded in a veil of myth.

The god Apollo is in charge of music, and there are nine Muses (Muse) under him. Music is called Music or Musik. Among the Greek musical instruments, there is a V-shaped double-pipe flute called Auros. There was a lyra, a hand-harp, and a guitar-like stringed instrument called a kithara, which were imported from Egypt or Japan.

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The bone flute is the oldest wind instrument with a history of more than 8,000 years.

The second is the xun, which is more than 7,000 years old.