在丝绸之路石窟中,我们看见新疆石窟壁画中遗存有许多关于排箫的描绘,时间从公元四世纪到八世纪。问题是这些排箫究竟是发源于何处?关肇元先生认为是源自希腊。他说:“欧洲排箫,古代曾是分布很广的民间乐器,近代仅在个别国家和地区有吹奏者。英语通称此乐器为‘潘排箫’(papines),希腊神话传说为牧神’潘’(pan)所创。潘神下半身为羊身,上半身为头上长一对羊角的人身。他遇到山林水泽女神绪任克斯(syrinx),便爱上了她。女神见他就逃跑,保护神把她隐入水中变成芦苇。潘神无奈,便用芦苇做成排箫吹奏自慰。希腊即称 In the Silk Road Grottoes, we see the remains of many paintings of panpipes in the cave paintings of Xinjiang, dating from the 4th century to the 8th century AD. The question is where do these pan flutes originate? Guan Zhaoyuan thinks it is from Greece. He said: ”European panpipes, once a widely distributed folk instrument in ancient times, has been played only in some countries and regions in modern times.“ English is commonly known as ”papines“, ”Greek myths and legends" Pan created the lower part of the body of the Pan Sheep, the upper part of which was a pair of croissants with a long head, and fell in love with Syrinx, the goddess of water in the mountains. Escape, protect the god of her into the water into a reed .Pan God helpless, they made the reed flute playing masturbation.