A chiral quark model is applied to calculate the spectra of pseudoscalar mesons η and η . By analyzing the obtained spectra, we find that the mesons η （2 1 S 0 ）, η（4 1 S 0 ）, η （3 1 S 0 ） and η （4 1 S 0 ） are the possible candidates of η（1760）, X（1835）, X（2120） and X（2370）. The strong decay widths of these pseudoscalars to all the possible two-body decay channels are calculated within the framework of the 3 P 0 model. Although the total width of η （21S0 ） is compatible with the BES Collaboration＇s experimental value for η（1760）, the partial decay width to ωω is too small, which is not consistent with the BES result. If X（1835） is interpreted as η（4 1 S 0 ）, the total decay width is compatible with the experimental data, and the main decay modes will be πa 0 （980） and πa 0 （1450）, which needs to be checked experimentally. The assignment of X（2120） and X（2370） to η （31S0 ） and η （41S0 ） is disfavored in the present calculation because of the incompatibility of the decay widths.
The light scalar mesons below 1GeV configured as tetraquark systems are studied in the framework of the flux-tube model. Comparative studies indicate that a multi-body confinement,instead of the additive two-body confinement, should be used in a multiquark system.The σ and κ mesons could be well accommodated in the diquark-antidiquark tetraquark picture, and could be colour-confinement resonances. The a0（980） and fo（980） mesons are not described as KK molecular states and ns diquark-antidiquark states.However, the mass of the first radial excited state of the diquark-antidiquark state, nn is 1019 MeV,is close to the experimental data of the fo （980）.
Pion properties at finite temperature, finite isospin and baryon chemical potentials are investigated within the SU（2） NJL model. In the mean field approximation for quarks and random phase approximation fpr mesons, we calculate the pion mass, the decay constant and the phase diagram with different quark masses for the u quark and d quark, related to QCD corrections, for the first time. Our results show an asymmetry between μI 〈 0 and μI 〉0 in the phase diagram, and different values for the charged pion mass（or decay constant） and neutral pion mass（or decay constant） at finite temperature and finite isospin chemical potential. This is caused by the effect of isospin symmetry breaking, which is from different quark masses.
