Hello everyone, I am based on history, I am very happy to share with you some of the stories of national treasures in the museum collection, this issue is the twelfth issue, this issue we talk about the national treasures collected by the Zhejiang Museum: Spring and Autumn Trick Music Copper House.
Trickle Copper House
This Spring and Autumn Trick Music Bronze House is one of the top ten treasures of the Zhejiang Museum, and it is also the only known model of a bronze house from the pre-Qin period. In this national treasure, we can not only understand the composition of the architecture of the Spring and Autumn Period, but also explore the composition of the ancient pop band two thousand years ago. In front of this national treasure, there is even a kind of ancient concert scene that can make people feel that they are transformed into different fans, calling for the lead singer, drummer, accompanist and so on of this band.
<h1>The drum music is still faint, and the piano is built and chirped</h1>
Entering this national treasure, we first start from the inside; in the bronze house, which is only a dozen centimeters long and wide, there are six band members, and these six members are divided into two rows of front and back, and three people in a row.
Six members of the band
Two of the three people in the first row were facing the audience, sitting naked on their knees, their hands on their lower abdomen, their mouths slightly open, making chanting movements. It should be the two female "lead singers" of the band at that time; the other is sitting on his knees, with a drum in front of him, and this "drummer" is beating the drum with the drumstick in his hand;
Of the three people in the back row, one of the drummers behind him is playing with a "sheng" with multiple pipes in both hands; the little man in the middle has a long musical instrument on his lap, the left hand seems to be pressing the strings, and the right hand is holding the hammer to strike, which is the famous "construction"; the other side of the small person also has a long musical instrument on the knee, and his hands are placed on the piano to make a caressing instrument.
Close-ups: 1, lead singer; 2, organist; 3, drummer
This "band" has 2 lead singers; one drummer; one blower; one chiku and one piano accompaniment; and although we don't know which nobleman is performing to or what music is playing, when we look at this national treasure, it seems that we can faintly hear the chanting of the two lead singers two thousand years ago, accompanied by the piano, drums, sheng, and chiku.
<h1>Dove Torii Shrine Tree, Smelling Music in Human Form</h1>
The roof of this bronze house is raised from the four corners, and an octagonal bronze column stands high in the middle, and at the top of the pillar stands a sacred beast with a human face and a bird's body.
Doves
According to research, this sacred beast with a human-faced bird body should be a dove (jiu) bird called "the ancestor of Yue Zhu" by the Yue people during the Spring and Autumn Period.
"Zhu" is another name for wizards in ancient times, "Yue Zhu" is the wizard of Yueguo, who can become the ancestor of Yueguo wizards, and the status of the dove bird is evident in the sacredness. So why is there a dove with a human face on the roof of this bronze trick house?
The Eastern Jin Dynasty Ganbao's "Search for God" records such a story: in the deep mountains of the homeland of Yueguo, there is a large blue bird, this bird sees it during the day, it is the shape of a bird; hearing its song at night is also the sound of a bird; but when it hears music, it will change into a human form, three feet long. The natives of Yueguo believe that this magical bird is the ancestor of Yue Zhu.
Jin Ganbao's Book of Search for Gods, Volume XII: "In the mountains of the yuedi, there are birds as big as doves, blue, and the name is Ye bird." Wearing large trees as nests, such as five or six liter buckets, the diameter of the household is several inches, and the perimeter is decorated with chalks, red and white, and resembles a shooting hou. When the loggers saw this tree, they avoided it... This bird sees its form in white, and it is a bird; it listens to its song at night, and it is also a bird; and when there are spectators of music, they take human form, three feet long, and take stone crabs in the stream, and they are burned, and no one shall offend them. The Yue people call this bird the ancestor of Yue Zhu. ”
You can see that even the sacred beast dove bird that lives in the trees of the deep mountains, after hearing the band's playing and singing, flew to the octagonal pillar on the roof and appeared in human form. It can be seen that the six-piece band has a wonderful playing skill.
<h1>A dream for two thousand years, there is a lingering sound around the beam</h1>
In 1982, in the Potang Lion Shrine Mountain in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, a large number of tomb culture accumulations were found. However, the cultural accumulation in various places was more damaged, and only a small area remained, and a number of cultural relics from the Neolithic and Spring and Autumn periods were collected at that time. In the tomb labeled No. 306, a group of similarly styled artifacts, including the Qile Copper House, were unearthed, including three bronzes with inscriptions, which experts identified as the inscriptions of Xu Guo during the Spring and Autumn Period. Therefore, this group of bronzes, including the Jile Copper House, is considered to be Xu ware.
Photographs from the time of excavation
It is very likely that the State of Xu, which has existed in history for more than 1600 years, was eventually destroyed by Wu Zixu and Sun Wu because it angered the King of Wu, and these bronzes of the State of Xu were all seized by the State of Wu, and later the State of Wu was destroyed by the State of Yue, and the treasures of the State of Xu were also known as the trophies of the State of Yue.
It is also said that after the destruction of the State of Xu, the nobles of the State of Xu fled in all directions, and one of them fled to the State of Yue and became the nobles of the State of Yue, and these treasures, which were originally the treasures of the State of Xu, also became the collection of the nobles of the New State of Yue.
Either way, this 17 cm high, 13 cm wide and 11.5 cm deep Spring and Autumn Trick Copper House is a rare bronze masterpiece at that time. The exquisite house shape and the combination of a clear division of labor allow us to still feel the concert scene of that year more than 2,000 years later.
With such music as a companion, the kings should float a big white.
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