Flute or flute (hollow) was first played by the ancient Greeks. It was most often played by shepherds and was first used in Clardy in 3000 BC. The performance of this instrument runs through the history of Greek art.

Although the invention of this musical instrument is attributed to Cybele or Hermes in some records, the god who has the closest relationship with flute and is widely regarded as its invention is Pan, the pastoral god. In Greek mythology, Pan, the patron saint of the shepherd, fell in love with his daughter Cyrus. Lincks escaped his attention and begged Zeus to save her. Just as Pan caught her, Zeus turned the fairy into a reed. Pan, who became angry from embarrassment, smashed the reed into pieces, but in retrospect, he regretted it and cried and kissed the broken reed and everything left of his beloved. When he kissed the reed, he found that his breath could make a sound from the reed, so he made a musical instrument named after the missing fairy.

Use 4 to 18 sugarcane pipe to make Greek flute.

Paixiao is composed of four to eighteen sugarcane tubes (without any side holes), which are fixed together with sugarcane, flax or wax. Holding the instrument with both hands and blowing it above each pipe, pipes with different lengths or pipes with the same length are blocked by wax at different points, which will produce different notes. The voice is deep and rich.

Musical instruments are depicted in sculptures, such as marble-based figurines and clay sculptures, and decorative ceramics, especially red and black ceramics from Attica. Pan, Hermes, Attis, Satyas and even rarer eros (only in the late ancient times, 2nd-3rd century A.D.) often depicted them playing musical instruments.