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Scottish Bagpipe Whisky Scottish Skirt 苏格兰风笛 The bagpipe is the national instrument of Scotland and is best represented in the music of the Scottish Highlands Highland pipers on the other hand, appear to have been more strongly influenced by their Celtic background and occupied a high and honoured position. Scottish Bagpipe whisky Whisky is in its most basic sense, a spirit that is distilled from grain. It is aged for long periods of time in wooden barrels . This barrel-aging smoothes the rough palate of the raw spirit and adds aromatic , all of which set whiskies apart from white grain spirits , which are distilled closer to neutrality in taste and then generally not aged in wood. whisky The basis of Scotch whisky is the heather-flavored ales made from barley malt that the Picts and their prehistoric ancestors brewed. Archeologists have found evidence of such brewing dating back to at least 2000 B.C. This ale (which is still produced today by at least one Scottish microbrewer) was low in alcohol and not very stable. whisky  Scottish Skirt the origin of customs men from scotland to wear skirts? Scottish dress comes from a box called guild of old clothing. This is a skirt from the waist to the knee, with tweed production, oil on a continuous large grid, and the box should show up clearly. In the Scottish view, guildis not only wearing their national costumes,and is a sign of national culture of Scotland. after the merge(合并) of Scotland and England in 1707 after the merger, “guild”as Scotland‘s national costume is retained（保留）. Scots said they were wearing the dress, with the resistance against the English rule and demands a strong desire for national independence. In 1745, the British crushed the Scots Hanover armed uprising, known in British history under the “skirt ban order ” to prohibit the Scots wear skirts, dressed only in England as the standard, violators（违规者） will be punished by imprisonment