"Silk and bamboo" refers to the traditional ethnic stringed instruments and bamboo wind instruments of ancient Han nationality. "Silk" and "bamboo" are two categories in the classification of eight-tone musical instruments in Zhou Dynasty. "Silk" refers to stringed instruments and "bamboo" refers to wind instruments. The word "silk bamboo" comes from Liu Yuxi's "Humble Room Inscription", which refers to the sound of playing music and generally refers to music.

There are only two kinds of ancient musical instruments, such as flutes and flutes, which are made of bamboo, that is, wind instruments. The other is a stringed instrument, such as guzheng, which can also be called silk. Silk and bamboo music has the musical characteristics of "softness, thinness and lightness".

The "Eight Tones" in the Zhou Dynasty is the general name of ancient musical instruments in China, including eight kinds: gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, wood and bamboo.

The Book of Rites and Music: "Virtue is the end of nature, music is also virtuous, stone is also bamboo, and musical instruments are also." "Shang Jun's Book of Painting Strategies": "It is based on people's position on the bed, listening to the sound of silk and bamboo, and the rule of the world." Ye Shengtao's "Ni Huanzhi" X: "At this time, the sound of gongs and drums and voices in the front street are boiling in waves, mixed with the sound of bamboo and silk."

The original text of "Humble Room Inscription":

The mountain is not high, and the fairy is famous. The water is not deep, and the dragon is the spirit. I am a humble room, but I am virtuous. The moss on the stage is green, and the curtain grass is green. There is no Ding Bai who laughs and has a university. You can tune the pipa and read Jin Dian. There is no confusion, and there is no complicated form. Zhuge Lu in Nanyang and Ting Yun Pavilion in West Shu. Kong Ziyun: What's wrong?