With a long history, beautiful shape, gorgeous decoration and soft tone, the Sui and Tang dynasties were used in Tianzhu Music and Qiu Guo Music
The phoenix has deep roots with Myanmar
As early as ancient times, China and Myanmar have carried out in-depth exchanges, and in the 9th century, the king of Myanmar sent more than 30 artists to China.
In the seventeenth year of the Zhen Dynasty, Shu Nantuo, crown prince of the Kingdom of Biao (present-day Burma), led an orchestra to Chang'an to perform music and dance, and brought twenty-two musical instruments and more than a dozen pieces of music, including two phoenix-headed baskets
During the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang (780-805 AD), the Fengshou Gong was introduced from the Kingdom of Qi (present-day Burma), and this instrument is still circulating in Burma today, called "Sangko" or "Bending Qin", also known as "Burmese Harp".
Fengshou 箜篌 (called "Sanko" in Burmese) means curved harp. Its body resembles a small boat, and with its upwardly curved neck, it resembles a multi-stringed hunting bow. Boat-shaped resonance boxes are made of hollowed out wood with a hard and heavy texture, and the length of the case is 60 cm ∼ 80 cm, and the most common is 68 cm long
The Fengshou Zhen is the most important ethnic instrument in Myanmar, also known as the Bending Qin ("Sangko" in Burmese). This is the bow harp unique to Myanmar, in fact, the curved harp is not originally a Burmese instrument, it originated in ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, through Arabia, Iran, India or Indonesia to Myanmar, but it has been lost elsewhere (including China), only in Myanmar has been preserved and developed, which is a miracle and a living fossil of ancient musical instruments.
The tone is fresh and elegant, and the master of the performance has been named "the musician of the heavens" in the past!
Now let's listen to a piece of folk phoenix-headed music and feel this beautiful Burmese music
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