The painting of the hundred birds depicts common, auspicious symbols of one or two dozen kinds of birds as a representative, such as the phoenix, peacock, cranes, pugs, magpies, longevity belts, the white head of the chicken, mallow, pigeons, partridges -, kingfishers, swans, geese, and so on.

One of them, the phoenix, is a divine bird created by the Chinese nation as the king of all birds. The ancients believed that the phoenix grows in the east of the country of the gentleman, soaring beyond the four seas, as long as it appears in the world, the world will be peaceful.

The Historical Records of the Five Emperors recorded that Emperor Shun appointed the wise and capable, and the world was greatly ruled, "so Yu Naixing 'Nine strokes' of music, to the foreign objects, the phoenix came to soar." There is also a legend of the phoenix singing in Qishan Mountain at the time of King Wen of Zhou. Wang Shizhen, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in a poem, "A five-colored bird flew in, calling itself the Phoenix. It is not seen once in a thousand years, and those who see it have a prosperous country."

See the ancients believed that the phoenix is rare, only when the feudal rulers, clear and virtuous, the world peace, the phoenix god bird will appear. Confucius lived in the Spring and Autumn Period, when the vassal states competed for supremacy, the rites and music were broken, the world was in chaos, no wonder Confucius exclaimed, "The phoenix bird does not arrive, the river does not come out of the map, I have been carried away by the husband."

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Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix:

The folk piece "Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix" is a piece of music that is known as "Drum and Blow" or "Drum and Music".

The folk music of "Hundred Birds Towards Phoenix" is a piece of folk music called "Drum Blow Music" or "Drum Music", which was first popular in Henan, Shandong, Hebei, Anhui and other places, and is one of the top ten famous pieces of Chinese national instrumental music, which describes the sound of hundred birds and songs in a lively and joyful melody, and glorifies the beauty of the nature, and gives full play to the suona's specialty of imitation.

It is popular in a wide range of areas, with different versions in Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places. The music evokes people's love of nature and memories of their labor life with its warm and cheerful melody.

The Hundred Birds Toward the Phoenix is one of the most comprehensive pieces in the suona repertoire in terms of technique. For the player, this piece should utilize the suona blowing techniques such as spitting, sliding, flower tongue, finger flower, trill, swallowing, spitting, padding, beating, wiping, pressing, etc., as well as the tongue rushing tone, gas rushing tone, rebound tone, anti-double spitting, continuous playing tone, gas and lip with the trill, finger and gas with the trill, etc., which are the most difficult techniques.