Dizi (笛子), a kind of Chinese transverse flute, is the most representative wind instrument with distinctive Chinese national features. The majority of Dizi are made from bamboo on account of the more preferable sound effects and the lower cost, though it is also possible to find Dizi made traced back to Neolithic Age.

The earliest flute was made from bone over 7,000 years ago. In the times since then, most flutes were made of bamboo, which allowed even common people to play it. By covering the holes and blowing through the side hole while moving the fingers flexibly between the six holes, a sound will be produced that is leisurely and mellifluous like sound from far away. This always reminds people of a pastoral picture of a farmer riding on a bull while playing a flute.

Nowadays Dizi are frequently put to use in folk music, Chinese opera, national music ensemble or western symphony orchestra
 

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