Chinese culture has a long history, after 5,000 years of baptism, the birth of many unique styles of musical instruments, these instruments are exquisitely designed, the rhythm of the exquisite, let people clap the case.
In ancient China, there were ten major musical instruments, namely pipa, erhu, chimes, flutes, flutes, serpents, qin, 埙, sheng and drums.
After the excavation of the famous tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, an ancient musical instrument that has been lost for thousands of years has been unearthed, "Zhu", which is a traditional stringed instrument in ancient China, which originally originated in Chudi and is famous for its tragic and agitated voice.
In addition to the construction, the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng also unearthed chimes, one of which weighed more than 2500 kilograms.
The clock is hung on a curved ruler-shaped bronze and wood structure bell frame in 3 layers and 8 groups, with an inscription of 3755 words, which is a rare treasure.
In fact, ancient Chinese musical instruments are also very famous abroad, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States has a large number of musical instruments lost from China, many of which are handed down from generation to generation, including a Ming Dynasty ivory wood carved pipa, the back of which is inlaid with more than 110 hexagonal ivory flakes.
Ming Dynasty ivory wood carved pipa American Metropolitan Collection
How beautifully styled
Look closely at the ivory flakes to see the peonies, plum blossoms, lotuses, and orchids that bloom in all seasons. Pipa in history has a straight pipa and a curved pipa, curved neck pipa from Persia introduced to China, prevailed in the Northern Dynasty, and later spread to the southern Yangtze River Basin.
In the Eastern Han Dynasty Liu Xi's "Interpretation of Names and Musical Instruments", there is a record about the origin of the pipa name: "... Push the hand before the approval, but the lead hand knows the handle, like its drum, because of the name also. ”
The beauty and harmony embodied in the pipa "push forward and backward pick" performance action, each high or low sound, has a different connotation of emotion.
Some choked and choked, some rained like a sudden, some like large beads and small beads falling into the jade plate, and some meanings like entangled roots are difficult to tell.
Japan Shokoin 5th String Biwa
In fact, in the Sui and Tang dynasties, there was a five-string pipa, that is, the flying rebound pipa in the Dunhuang murals.
However, in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the five-stringed pipa disappeared from historical documents, and only Japan still preserves a five-string pipa from the Tang Dynasty, which was brought back from Chang'an by the Tang envoys at that time.
Unfortunately, the five-stringed pipa has no heirloom in China. This treasure is now hidden in Shosoin-in, Japan, and there are not many opportunities to exhibit every year, so if the Chinese want to see it, they can only visit Japan.