锣鼓，是我国最古老的乐器之一古的可能是石鼓。后来能造皮革，铸铜器，才有比较高级的打击乐器，锣鼓音乐才逐渐完善。 尚书中的“击石拊石，百兽率舞”，恐怕还是敲石片，不是石鼓，更不是后来的锣鼓。就是诗经上的“钟鼓乐之，乾坤定矣”的锣鼓，也不一定是后来采用合金铸造 Percussion, one of the oldest musical instruments in our country, may be a stone drum. Later can make leather, bronze, have more advanced percussion instruments, percussion music gradually improved. Shangshu book “hit rock stone, the rate of dance animals,” I am afraid that is still knocking stone, not a stone drum, but not later the gongs and drums. Is the Book of Songs on the “bell music, heaven and earth set carry on,” the gongs and drums, nor is it later used alloy casting