Jiahu gudi

Detail

Name of object: Jiahu Gudi's

Date: Neolithic

Objects Specification: 23.6 cm

Unearthed time 1987

Unearthed place: Tomb M282, Jiahu site, Wuyang, Henan

Jiahu Gudi is the earliest musical instrument unearthed in China, known as "the first flute in China" . It is also recognized by experts as the world's first wind instrument. Experiments have shown that Jiahu Gudi can play not only traditional pentatonic or heptonal music, but also ethnic or foreign music rich in inflection. Its discovery, rewrites the pre-qin music history and even the entire Chinese music history, has the incomparable important status and the value.