Red paint with gold cloud and dragon patterns neutralizes Shao Le Xun

[Red paint painted with gold cloud and dragon pattern and Shao Le Xun]

Red paint painted with gold cloud and dragon pattern and Shao Le Xun in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with a height of 8.5 cm, a bottom diameter of 4.5 cm, a blowing diameter of 0.8 cm, a waist diameter of 6.5 cm, and a sound hole diameter of 0.4 cm
Ceramic, hollow, as large as a goose egg, shaped like a scale, flat at the bottom and sharp at the top. The top is the blowhole. There are six sound holes, four at the front and two at the back. Xun’s body is painted with red paint and painted with gold clouds and dragons. It is colorful and full of royal style. When playing, hold Xun with both hands, press the two sound holes at the back with both thumbs, press the four sound holes at the front with the middle and index fingers of both hands, and hang colorful tassels between the fingers
In the court of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Xun was dedicated to the music of Zhongshao. It was the only musical instrument belonging to the Central Plains of the “Eight Tones and Harmonics” since the Western Zhou Dynasty. Xun has a long history in China. A hole of pottery Xun was unearthed in the Hemudu Cultural Site in Zhejiang 7000 years ago. Later, the number of sound holes was increasing, and it had melody function