琉球三线是琉球(现日本冲绳)以及日本奄美群岛所使用的弹弦乐器。与中国三弦、日本三味线属同类乐器。关于三弦传人琉球成为三线,一般认为是于中国明初闽人三十六姓迁徙入琉球,多携三弦而行,自此琉球有了三弦。十六世纪后,琉球文献中有关于三线的确切记载。在琉球,三线音乐基于儒教思想的基础,受到士族男子的喜爱而得到了迅速普及。之 Ryukyu third line is Ryukyu (now Okinawa, Japan) and the Amami Islands in Japan by playing the stringed instrument. Sanxian and China, Japan shamisen is a similar instrument. About Ryukyu Ryukyu Sanxian became the third line, generally believed that in the early Ming Dynasty, Fujian Province, 36 people migrate into Ryukyu, carrying three strings, since Ryukyu has Sanxian. After the sixteenth century, Ryukyu literature has the exact record of the third line. In Ryukyu, third-line music, based on the foundation of Confucianism, enjoyed rapid popularity by the men of the gentry. It