The instrument used to play Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is the suona.

The Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is a national musical piece popular in Henan, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, etc. Its predecessor was the accompaniment song in the sedan chair of the Yu opera, which was so popular that the Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix became popular in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui, etc., and it is also known as Hundred Birds Tone.

This is an excellent piece of music that fully demonstrates the charm of suona art, and it expresses the vibrant nature scene with its enthusiastic and joyful melody and the sound of the hundred birds and chorus. This piece is very difficult to learn in general, and the learner needs to work hard and keep practicing for years and years in order to really master the piece and to blow it with the flavor it deserves.

In the spring of 1953, a team from Heze Prefecture in Shandong Province participated in the National Concert as a suona soloist and was warmly welcomed. When "A Hundred Birds Towards the Phoenix" was chosen to participate in the fourth World Youth Festival performance program.

Ren Tongxiang, a folk musician, processed the piece with the assistance of professional musicians, compressed the sound of birds, deleted the sound of chickens for the defects of the original piece, and designed a flashy phrase using the special cyclic gas exchange method of the long tone technique, expanding the end of the Allegretto, so that the whole piece ended in a warm and joyful atmosphere.

In the seventies, on the basis of Ren Tongxiang's performance, another introduction was designed to present the mood of a hundred birds singing in unison in order to strengthen the musicality, and the colorful phrases were expanded to use the fast double spatula technique to make the piece more complete.