Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1490 The political language of musical instruments

Curator Gao did not follow Zhou Zhi's argument: "The Shimen Tiger Button Tao Yu is actually no less than the Chu Zenghou Yi Chime Bell, but it does not belong to the Zhongyuan Zhengyin, and there is no music score left. Even if it is restored, it will not The law plays music.”

Zhou Zhi has his own opinion: "Actually, I think it doesn't matter what the music is like. "Xia Li" and "Ba Ren" have all been turned into idioms, corresponding to the elegant "Yangchun" and "White Snow"."

"But the reason why "Baren" is deeply hated by the upper class is precisely because of its popularity and 'stubbornness' that has taken root among the people and is widely accepted and loved by the working people at the bottom."

"Just like today's black music in the West, which has gradually occupied the mainstream position of popular music; and it is also like Liu Sanbian in the Song Dynasty. Although he was despised by Ouyang Xiu, Su Dongpo and others, 'Liu lyrics were sung wherever there was well water'."

"So if the tiger button can finally sound again, it is its correct mission to be used to play pop music!"

"Can our foundation do this?" Li Laosan looked at the dozens of large and small "copper jars" in front of him and didn't think it was difficult at all: "Copy a set and listen to the sound?"

"You can talk to Sister Qi about this when you get back. I'm afraid it won't work without experts from the music school." Zhou Zhi had an idea in the blink of an eye.

"It would be great if this could happen!" Curator Gao was surprised.

There are many good things in the museum, among which the famous Chu Ji Bronze Yong Bell is rated as first-class.

Yongzhong is part of the chime group. It is smaller than chime and has a higher scale.

This set of Yong bells unearthed at the Wanfu Nao site in Yiling belongs to the Western Zhou Dynasty. The bell body is in the shape of a tile, covered with convex hoop-shaped swirling cloud patterns and raised dot patterns, as well as cord-like curved bends, and some flat surfaces. Decorated with symmetrical four-quarter cloud patterns; the seal is divided into twelve groups of ribbons at intervals with concave string patterns, each group has three ribbons, a total of thirty-six ribbons, divided into two sections, thick at the bottom and thin at the top; eight layers of seal ribbons, decorated with stolen music The main drum is decorated with a symmetrical "I"-shaped cloud pattern, which is curved upward at the top and wide at the bottom.

The most important thing is that there is an inscription engraved on the bell of the Yong Bell: "The treasure bell of the Chu Dynasty was presented to the Duke by his grandson, and he will be blessed for ten thousand years." This is the first time in archaeological discoveries that the inscription "Chu" has been found on a cultural relic from the Western Zhou Dynasty. The bronze bell with the inscription "Ji" indicates its clear representative attribute of Chu culture.

The Yong bell unearthed together is not an isolated piece, but a set of twelve pieces, with a large bronze tripod attached, which provides important clues for the study of early Chu culture.

In addition, there is a Yong Zhong that is an orphan because its seal part is divided into six convex string patterns, which are filled with cockroach patterns, cloud and thunder patterns and 绹 patterns. The main drum part is decorated with two sets of cockroach patterns. It is a cultural relic of the early Warring States Period. .

But its importance is no less than that of the Yong Zhong of Chu Ji in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Because there is also an inscription on the Zheng part: "The King of Qin humbly ordered King Yong to rescue Qin Rong."

Some experts believe that "Jing" is the son of King Chu Ping, a royal aristocrat of Chu State. The main meaning of the inscription is: King Qin humbly asked Jing to go to (a certain place) to build a city. And the King of Qin went to Ding to rescue the Qin army.

"There is a high probability that this happened during the honeymoon period of Qin and Chu." Zhou Zhi frowned: "Is this location in Qi? Is it part of Qin's operation to break the Qi-Chu alliance?"

"Dingzhou didn't exist during the Warring States period, right?" Director Gao asked.

"Indeed not. At that time, Dingzhou was called 'Gu', and it was the capital of the Zhongshan Kingdom for a period of time." Zhou Zhi recalled the place in the Warring States Period in his mind, but did not remember where this "Ding" belonged to now. But it reminds me of another explanation in "Shuowen Jiezi": "'ding' is in the oracle bone inscriptions, the top is 'home', and the bottom is 'foot'. The original meaning of this character is to go home, and it was later extended to 'Stable' means."

"Eh? This gives me a new explanation." Director Gao's eyes lit up and he said with a smile: "It's quite rewarding to learn from you, so this 'set' does not necessarily refer to a specific place, it may mean 'return to the teacher' 'the meaning of?"

"In any case, this clock was found in the city site of the Chu Kingdom. It is exquisitely made and has complex patterns. It is definitely of great value for studying the relationship between Chu and Qin during the Warring States Period."

"That's right." Li Laosan said: "And looking at it like this, Chu State once had the upper hand?"

"That's not necessarily the case." Zhou Zhi said, "Maybe it was a diplomatic incident like Lin Xiangru asking the secretary to record the King of Qin's fou for King Zhao."

"Yes, the Qin State suffered a huge loss in that diplomatic incident." Director Gao was overjoyed.

"It's a tie at best, right? Besides, Lin Xiangru was passive in defense and counterattack, so why did Qin suffer so much?" Zhang Lu discovered another problem that others couldn't.

"This brings us back to the issue of Yangchun Baixue and the Lower Riba people." Zhou Zhi also couldn't help but laugh: "It was mentioned in "Mozi Three Bian", 'In the past, the princes were tired of listening and governing, and rested on the music of bells and drums. "The scholar-bureaucrats are tired of listening and treating, and rest on the joy of playing the lute and harp; the farmer plows in the spring and works in the summer, and buries in the autumn and hides in the winter, and rests on the joy of the fou." It is also recorded in "Huainanzi Spiritual Training": "I am poor and despicable now." In society, people knock on pots, sing with each other, and feel happy."

"The king of Qin asked the king of Zhao to play the harp, which meant that he demoted the king of Zhao from the ranks of princes; and Lin Xiangru asked the king of Qin to play the fou for the king of Zhao, which meant that the king of Qin used the entertainment method of the lowest common people to entertain the king of Zhao."

"That's why King Qin's response was 'angry, don't allow it'." Director Gao said, "Because this lowered King Qin's status even lower than that of King Zhao who had just threatened."

"And Lin Xiangru may have another meaning." Zhou Zhi continued: "Li Si mentioned the entertainment activities of the Qin people in the "Admonition and Expulsion of Guests". The earliest ones were 'beating the urn, percussion on the fou, and playing the zither and playing the crotch', which means that in the Six Kingdoms Before the guest came to the Qin State, the Qin State was located in the western border, and its culture was extremely backward. It was difficult to express an elegant and orthodox voice. He would only be half drunk, banging the earthenware fou, and slapping his thighs with his hands while singing. "

"So Lin Xiangru asked the King of Qin to bring an earthen jar to the King of Zhao at the diplomatic meeting, which was completely naked and humiliating. It probably meant something more - I guess he asked you to bring something else to our king, and you, the old man, didn't General Assembly."

"Hahahaha..." Li Laosan and Lin Wanqiu were very happy to hear this. Lin Xiangru's counterattack was so decisive that after the Qin people left the venue, they would never dare to take the initiative to mention this conference.

It's really like what Director Gao said, you will make a big profit at a loss!

The two Hong Kong compatriots laughed happily, but the rest of the friends looked at each other. Everyone had learned the article "The Return of the Perfect Stone to Zhao" in high school, but the teachers had never talked about this drum harp. There is such a wealth of information in between the fou and the fou...

If we lived in ancient times and humiliated ourselves like this, we might not even know it!

No matter what, everyone has a profound understanding of the importance of musical instruments to political activities in the pre-Qin period.

(End of this chapter)