Long before human beings produced language, they knew how to express their meaning and feelings by using the level and strength of sound. With the development of human labor, the chant of unifying labor rhythm and the cry of transmitting information to each other have gradually appeared, which is the most primitive musical prototype;

When people celebrate the harvest and share the fruits of labor, they often beat stone tools and wood to express their joy and joy. This is the embryonic form of the original musical instrument.

Ancient music is different from music, and later called "music", which refers to an art that uses organized music to express people's thoughts and feelings and reflect social life.

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The obscurantism of China folk music was more than 2000 years earlier than Xuanyuan Huangdi, the ancestor of the Chinese nation. In the Neolithic Age 6700-7000 years ago, our ancestors may have been able to burn clay pots and dig bone whistles. The bone flute at Jiahu Site in Wuyang County, Henan Province can be traced back to about 8,000 years ago, and it is the oldest wind instrument in the world.

One of the seven-hole bone flutes is very well preserved. Experts have carried out experiments and found that bone flutes can still be used to play music and can emit seven tones. But in ancient China, only five tones were basically used. These primitive musical instruments undoubtedly tell people that human beings at that time had the aesthetic ability of music.

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