In the impression of many people, Denmark in Northern Europe is a "fairy tale kingdom", but in fact it also has an ancient historical civilization, especially the bronze civilization is the most praised by experts. In Denmark's National Museum, there is a strange bronze instrument that can make people cry. What kind of instrument is it? If you are also curious, the following Xiaobian will reveal it to you.
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According to experts from the National Museum of Denmark, this peculiar instrument was discovered in 1797. At that time, on a hillside in The Danish island of Zealand, a farmer was building a house, and while digging the foundation, they planed out a lot of bluestone slabs, the largest of which was more than 2 meters long, and there were chisel marks left by artificial carvings. Experienced workers speculated that these bluestone slabs might be tombs, so they continued to dig down, and sure enough, they found a tomb, about 3.8 meters long and about 2.2 meters deep, and the tomb was surrounded by stone slabs so that it was very well preserved. At that time, there was no one to manage the tomb, so the farmer cleaned the tomb himself, and then filled it with soil to continue building the house.
Years later, the farmer wrote a memoir in which he also recorded the discovery of the tomb, saying that there were a large number of burial items in the tomb at that time, such as clay pots, gold coins and some bronze cast weapons, so it was speculated that it was the tomb of an ancient warrior. The farmer collected these burial items at home and passed them on to his children and grandchildren. It was not until the establishment of the Danish Antiquities Preservation Council that the descendants of the farmers would give these funerary items to the state, and then they were collected in the Danish Museum. According to experts, there are more than 100 pieces of funerary items donated, the most exquisite of which is bronze, which is also the best proof of the Danish Bronze Age.
The experts sorted it out and found an alternative bronze in it, which was twisted and about 1.6 meters long and looked neither a weapon nor a daily necessity. Today, people can still see this bronze in the Danish Museum, it is large and small, the large head is round, about 12 centimeters in diameter, there are holes in the middle, surrounded by seven small bumps, so it is reminiscent of the shower in the bathroom, or the shower head in the pond, and connected to the big head is a curved hollow copper pipe, which is getting thinner and thinner from top to bottom.
In the beginning, experts saw that the bronze was badly corroded, and after 5 years of restoration, it became what it is today. For a long time, experts did not know what this bronze was for, and later after in-depth research speculated that it was a musical instrument, and found some records in ancient texts, such as some ancient books called Lur, translated as Chinese called "Ruhr". Antiquities experts wondered, how should the Ruhr play if the Ruhr is an instrument?
Experts said that although the Ruhr was repaired at that time, they did not know the principle of its sound, and no matter how the experts made it, they could not make any sound. Years later, some musical instrument experts inadvertently saw the Ruhr in the museum, and after research and experimentation, they finally knew the mystery of The Ruhr's voice. Instrument experts say that when the Ruhr was first repaired, the experts blocked its inner cavity in order to fix the brass pipe, so it could not make any sound. Later, the experts unclogged the lumen of the Ruhr and added an open mouth to the small head, just like the current saxophone instrument, but it looked a little simpler.
After some preparation, the experts finally played the Ruhr for the first time, they lifted the Ruhr with their hands, and then gently blew the air from the small mouth with their mouths, and then made a sound at the big head, and if you listened carefully, you would find that the sound was thick and low, giving people a sense of slaughter and desolation, as if it were mourning. If you blow hard and control the rhythm and frequency of blowing, the sound emitted by Ruhr can be breathtaking, many people say that their hairs stand up after listening, and some people can't help but become sad and distressed, and even some people cry, and their hearts can't be calmed for a long time.
Experts speculate that the Ruhr is a funeral instrument, such as when the owner of the tomb is buried, the person next to him will play the Ruhr, creating an atmosphere of sadness. After the funeral, the Ruhr was buried in the burial chamber as a burial object. However, this is also the speculation of experts, as to whether The Ruhr is used in this way, it is necessary to continue to study, hoping to find new evidence in the near future.
Today, the Ruhr has been in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark, but no one plays it now, because the sound it makes is really sad, even a person who is in a very happy mood will immediately become sad after hearing the sound of the Ruhr, so we just look at it quietly, it is best not to listen to its voice, so as not to affect the mood.
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"Bronze Ceremonial Instrument" by Du Yisong, Publisher: Shanghai Science and Technology Press
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's