"Ancient Dai tune" Gong Zheng's cucurbit flute performance
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Mengyang Town is located in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, at the junction of China and Myanmar in the southwest. This is the hometown of cucurbit silk. The cucurbit flute, also known as the gourd flute, is said to have evolved from the sheng of the Central Plains into the southwest. When playing, the gourd is the air chamber, and the mouth of the gourd is the mouth.

On the banks of the Mengyang River, there is a beautiful legend about the birth of cucurbit silk. Sang Liang, a young man of the Dai nationality, missed his lover Shaoyu who died in the flood to save him. On the riverside where they once planted gourd and bamboo together, he heard The wind blew the gourd, and the two plants were combined to make the gourd flute, which is the gourd flute. He played it against the river every night, and the tune he played became the earliest gourd flute tune—an ancient song .

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