In 1999, six frogs from China appeared in Chicago, USA

In 1999, six frogs from China appeared in Chicago, USA

In 1999, a Chinese tourist saw 6 frogs from China in Chicago, USA, and exclaimed: "Chinese things are very precious!"

Frogs are animals worshipped by ethnic minorities in southern China in ancient China, and to this day, some villages in the south still have the custom of celebrating the Frog Festival every new month. Chinese tourists see Chinese frogs in Chicago, USA, what is going on?

It turned out that this tourist saw a Guangxi copper drum at the Chicago Museum in the United States, this copper drum is very special, there are 6 frogs on the drum surface, he blurted out: "Isn't this a Chinese frog?"

The Guangxi brass drum has a history of more than 2,000 years, and it is a heavy instrument for sacrifice, tribute, and reward, as well as a folk percussion instrument. In the whole country, only the copper drum in Guangxi is a school of its own, which is a grand view, because it has 6 frogs. In 1963, when the famous archaeologist and historian Guo Moruo visited the exhibition of copper drums unearthed in Guangxi in Nanning, Guangxi, he called the copper drums a Zhuang culture.

So, how did this Guangxi frog brass drum appear in the Chicago Museum in the United States? Some people have analyzed that it should be a long time ago, Guangxi copper drums were lost to the people, and then purchased by merchants and shipped to the United States. Today, in New York in the United States, London in the United Kingdom, Paris in France, Berlin in Germany, Rome in Italy, Vienna in Austria, Stockholm in Sweden, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Tokyo in Japan, and Gar in India, there are frog brass drums in Guangxi, China.