The bowed qin is a plucked stringed musical instrument of the Gaoshan people. It has a long history, primitive shape, soft pronunciation and beautiful timbre. Often used to accompany folk songs or dances. It is popular in the Gaoshan Bunun, Zou and other tribal areas in Taiwan Province.

Bowqin has a very long history. It was born out of the ancient hunting bow and can also be called "music bow". It is the ancestor of my country's stringed musical instruments.

In ancient times, there was a myth of "Yi shoots ten days", which shows that people in ancient times respected good archers, and the bow is naturally an extension of the invention of bows and arrows. Ancient legends attribute the founding of the "qin" to Fuxi, and it is precisely because he is the leader of a tribal clan that fishes and hunts for a living.

In my country's ancient book "Wuyue Spring and Autumn", it was recorded: "broken bamboo, continue bamboo, fly soil to chase meat". This "Dan Song", which the prime minister said was composed during the Yellow Emperor period, was probably sung in the accompaniment of fiddling with the bowstrings of hunting bows. From the simple lyrics, it can be shown that the ancients used bamboo bows to send out clay projectiles. Chasing animals.

The bowed qin of the Gaoshan people in Taiwan is the remains of this oldest ancestor of the stringed instrument in my country. In the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Jingying wrote about the bowed qin in "Notes on Haidong" (Volume 4): "The bow is cut from bamboo, more than a foot long, or seven or eight inches, with a silk thread as a string, and one end is folded with a thin bamboo piece and looped around its end. , under the string near the tail, the end stack is tied to the bow surface, buckled to the teeth, and the claws of the strings are used to make a sound, which is called the protruding meat." It still maintains its original form.