China Han ancient large percussion instruments, chimes rose in the Western Zhou Dynasty and flourished in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period until Qin and Han Dynasties. China was the first country to make and use musical clocks.
It is made of bronze, arranged in pitch order by flat round clocks of different sizes, hung on a huge clock rack, and tapped with a T-shaped wooden hammer and a long stick respectively, which can produce different musical sounds.
Because the tone of each clock is different, you can play wonderful music by tapping on the sound spectrum. A set of bronze bells with different tones hung on the wooden frame, and the maid beat the music with a mallet.
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Zeng Houyi chimed the bell, a cultural relic in the early Warring States period, and the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from going abroad in China. 1978 was unearthed in Suixian County (now Suizhou City), Hubei Province.
It is a huge musical instrument composed of sixty-five bronze bells, with a range of five and a half octaves and twelve semitones. Its exquisite casting technology and good musical performance have rewritten the history of world music and are called "rare treasures" by experts and scholars at home and abroad.
1977 In September, on a hill in the suburb of Suizhou City, Hubei Province, after sleeping for 2430 years, Ceng Houyi rang the bell again. This is an unprecedented discovery in China's cultural relics archaeology, music history and smelting history.
On that day, I accidentally discovered Ceng Houyi's tomb in the process of expanding the barracks in the Leigudun Garrison on the outskirts of Suizhou. This is a "super tomb" with an area of 220 square meters, which is six times larger than the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha. ?
When the survey team arrived at the scene, the hole drilled by the troops was only 80 cm away from the top floor of the ancient tomb. Just one more shot, and this ancient tomb with ancient treasures will never exist again.
1978 at 5: 00 a.m. on May 22nd, after the water in the tomb was drained, Ceng Houyi's resplendent chimes revealed their true colors, and everyone present was stunned by this exquisite bronze casting device: more than 2,400 years later, 65 chimes of different sizes weighing 2,567 kilograms were neatly hung on wooden clock stands.
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