Chapter One Source of Music

  About the source of music of human society, we can retrospect to the very ancient desolate times Human knew that he expressed his means and feelings by use of low or high and strong or weakened sound before human's language produced. With the development of human labour, human produced the slogans which worked song sung to synchronize movement with one person leading and the calls which passed each other.This is the most primitive musical rudiment. When people congratulated the harvest and shared harvest of labour.They often hit the stone implement and carpentry to express their glad feelings.
   a、Genetic tales of stringed instrument
   Mercury was one of numenes of Grecian fables. One day he was walking on the riverside of Nile and unconsciously stepped on something which produced dulcet sound. He picked it up and realized that it was empty turtle shell which attached a sere tendon inner side. So he got the elicitation and invented stringed instrument. Stringed instrument produced before Mercury by later generations' textual research, but invention of stringed instrument was impossible to get the elicitation from it.
   b、Genetic fables of the pipe
   In ancient China, there was a musician named Ling Lun in the Yellow Emperor about 5000 years ago.He ever entered the Mountain Kunlun to pick bamboo and make it as flute.It happened that five phenixes was sing in the air. So he combined the swing with the sound of the five phenixes. Though it was not believable, it could be looked as source of the pipe. The primitive human beings' labour developed with music. By this mean, the music came from the labour.