Friday, May 18, 2012

A wide variety of ancient bronze musical instrument appreciation

Ding Meng, is a researcher at the National Palace Museum, the ancient stone artifacts, vice director of the team leader, Master Instructor, Chinese coins Society, Chinese bronze Professional Committee, China Archaeological Society Member, National Palace Museum and member of the National Museum of cultural identification.

In addition to bronze bell bronze cymbals and bronze Bo, the ancient Dorian bronze instruments have bronze, bronze bells, bronze duo, bronze sentence Diao, bronze sculpture Duo and drums on. Here we introduce, respectively.

Bronze Dorian: a percussion instrument used in ancient march, also known as "cotinine." "Mandarin Wu": "Wang Naibing serrata, the pro will ring the bell, drum, Ding Ning, Chun Yu, Zhen Duo." Wei Zhao Note: "Ding Ning, Zheng also said that." Shape of its body for co-watt than the narrow, under the Executive shank. Dorian mainly in the south.

Bronze bell: the earliest bronze statue instruments. Yanshi Erlitou in Henan cultural relics had been found in the wing bell, "contains poems see," said "and the central bell central." Bell often hanging in the flag on the car and the pleasures of the body. "Rhyme": "Bell, like bell and small." Xingzhuang Si visible bell bell but are small, generally used for flat or notch, on the bow button, the body has the tongue. Musical instruments unearthed inside a bell two, flat-topped, exposure down and the top was Peach-shaped, with two oval holes, there is a bridge between two holes shaped button, the side of a door leaf edges. Accompanying a tubular jade clapper.

chinese bronze Duo: "said the text": "Duo, a large bell also." Handed down from the Ming, but the shape is not significant for the duo. Duo has a tongue handle, holding the handle and vibration, sound body of the tongue hit duo. "Zhou Xia official Grand Marshall": "Sima Zhenduo group, are only for cars." Prevalent in the Spring and Autumn Period.

Bronze sentence Diao: a hand-held percussion instruments, and its long and narrow shape, use the mouth upward, holding the handle duo to mallet percussion. Sentence Diao inscriptions survive in the world in "choosing the sentence Diao Ji Jin cast to enjoy the filial piety" content, we can see that it is the feast to enjoy and worship with musical instruments, mainly prevalent in the Spring and Autumn Period of Wu Yue region.

bronze dragon in: military instruments, "Jin Mandarin language": "Fighting to Chun in, cotinine, respect their people also." And "Zhou his official drum people": "to Kim Chun and drums." Zheng Xuan Note: "Duo, Duo in also, such as the pestle round head, big on the small, the music for Ming's, and with the drum phase." see the physical shape of cylinders, the big small, consistent with the literature. Duo on top of a button, and the tiger button as much, mainly popular in the Western Han Dynasty Spring and Autumn to the Yangtze River region.

Drum: "Zhou to the official drum" and: "the charge of teaching the four gold, six drum voice to vocal section, and the Military in order to field labor is." Drum commonly used in music and dance shows, banquets and war. Shang and Zhou dynasties more than wooden drums. Currently belong to the Shang Dynasty bronze sculpture drum found in only two sides: one living in Japan; the other side in 1977 in Hubei Chongyang Newly Unearthed. The main features of two transverse drum on both sides of the drum, four feet or rectangular foot. For now see a large number of bronze drums in southwest China, Guangxi, Yunnan ethnic minority areas, drum round, are single-sided drum, the drum, drum torso, waist drum, summon the other parts, often at the waist with a drum ear rings, often decorative relief of human and animal drums, drum body and the drumhead is also decorated with various patterns of ornamentation, mainly popular in the Warring States Period to Han Dynasty.

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