They can't speak, but they have sung loudly. Sleeping underground for thousands of years, it has long reproduced the romance of the ancients into the lives of people to this day.
Gongshang Kaku Zhengyu, how to sing the ancient music of the Year of the Tiger? Let the tiger relics give you an echo ——
Two singing birds stand on top of the two tigers sitting with their backs to them, a large drum hangs between the crowns, and the two young tigers have their hind feet on the back ridge of the birds, and their front feet support the drum cavity. Around to the sides of the display case, leaning over to gaze at the lacquered wood tiger seat, the muscles of the tiger's face are clearly defined, the two tiger eyes are shining, and the tiger's mouth spits out a long tongue that bends to the tiger's chin, showing a cute state, adding a playful and cute to the king of the hundred beasts...
This paint-painted tiger bird drum, with a height of 135.9 cm and a width of 134 cm, was excavated in 2002 at Tomb No. 2 of Jiuliandun in Zaoyang, Hubei Province, telling the story of the spiritual civilization of the Chu people in the Warring States period more than 2,000 years ago.
It is a percussion instrument, mostly used in the military, to match drums. This tiger-striped copper hammer is shaped like a hammer head in the whole, and the cross-section is oval in shape, and the tire quality is thick. Tiger-shaped buttons, coiled oval, drum shoulders and waist, the upper part of the waist is decorated with tiger stripes on both sides, and the lower part is decorated with a deformed pattern for a week.
This vessel is well-cast and has a unique pattern, which is a treasure in the instrument popular from the Spring and Autumn To the Han Dynasty, and the exquisite tiger button on the plate and the tiger stripe on the waist have important reference value for the study of the indigenous culture of the pre-Qin Hunan.
The Year of the Tiger is auspicious, let the beautiful and timeless tiger relics sing the music of the Year of the Tiger!
Producer: Zhao Danping
Producer: Wei Tiemin, Liu Kai
Planner: Tan Xuanxuan
Copywriting/Poster Design: Tan Yang Xuan Zhang Bo Ning
Reporter: Yu Pei, Zhang Yujie
Editor: Lu Ye
Xinhua News Agency to the outside Hong Kong and Taiwan Department Hubei Branch Hunan Branch
Hubei Provincial Museum Hunan Provincial Museum
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