Earth Drum (Tao Temple Site)
Hello everyone, when it comes to drums you must be no stranger.
When fighting, the drums and horns sound in unison; when playing music, the gongs and drums are noisy;
Rejoice when rejoicing; when loving, like a drum;
When in a hurry, it is intense; when it is leisurely, the morning bell and the twilight drum...
There are many more idioms about drums, which shows that this percussion instrument has a lot to do with our lives.
But do you know what the earliest drum lengths looked like?
So, today I will talk to you about the "drums" excavated in the ruins of tao temple.
Since the excavation in 1978, 6 pieces of musical instrument earth drums (pottery drums), 8 pieces of shrew drums, and 4 pieces of stone chimes have been found in the ruins of tao temples. A total of 29 pieces.
At first, our archaeologists did not think that this strange-looking object they found was a "drum", and thought that it was the seat of an object, so it was named "Alien Instrument".
Because the earth drum (pottery drum) does not look like a "drum", its texture is: clay gray hard pottery, the shape is: the drum abdomen is spherical or oval, and a barrel neck is connected, from the overall point of view, it looks like a long-necked gourd.
The neck mouth has one to two cycles of protrusions, a pair of vertical ears at the neck-abdomen junction, a barrel-shaped hole protruding downward from the center of the ventral base, three small cylindrical holes around the ring, and the abdomen is decorated with rope patterns and attached to the additional mud strips of the bundle.
You say, just like this, whoever has just discovered it can think that it will actually be a "drum".
I think our ancestors did not have the concept of drum shape system at the beginning of drum production.
Only by letting it ring, this is the last word, which can highlight the real role of the "drum", and the shape is arbitrary.
According to later research, these 6 pieces of earth drums (pottery drums) excavated from the Tao Temple site are the earliest physical objects of the earliest archaeological discoveries in China so far.
They are the ancestors of all "drums" and deserve to be the bearers of the "drum" world.
Shrew Drum (Tao Temple Site)
And the earth drum (pottery drum) was excavated in the same period as the "shrew drum".
Alligator
Tuó, also known as Yangzi crocodile, is a crocodile endemic to China and is one of the smallest crocodile species in the world.
The shrew drum, as the name suggests, is the drum of the Yangtze crocodile Pimon.
Dragon (Tao Temple Site)
Except that the drum is made of a tree trunk, and the outer wall of the trunk is painted with geometric patterns and painted.
Archaeologists have found several crocodile bone plates in the drum cavities of these decaying "tree drums", so as evidence, it is proved that this is the "shrew drum" recorded in ancient texts.
So why use Yangzi crocodile skin as a drum face?
In fact, in the ancient primitive society, the use of fish skins and animal skins as drum skins is also a common phenomenon.
It's just a drum made of Yangzi crocodile skin, and the sound sounds thicker and more powerful, more imposing, and the sound can be transmitted farther away.
It is said that when the Yellow Emperor and Xuan You fought, they used the sound of the drum to convey the news, and the high-pitched voice resounded hundreds of miles away.
In addition, in the tombs of the Tao Temple site, the earth drum (pottery drum) and the drum were excavated in pairs.
From this, it can also be proved that they are one of the important ceremonial instruments in primitive society.
I really didn't expect that the stories of the "drums" were so wonderful, we hurried, beat the gongs and drums, and clapped. [Applause] [Applause] [Applause]
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