Han Percussion Chimes

Ancient percussion instrument , on the gallows hung a pitch high and low stone or jade chime , play music with a gavel banging .
Han Percussion Chimes
Brief introduction

Largest Chimes – 2007 Guinness World Records successful application
Chimes of one kind of ancient musical instruments , stone or jade production, with 16 group . It sounds , in addition to yellow bell, Big Lu , too cluster , clip bell, Gu Xi , Zhong Lu , Rui Bin Lin Zhong , razed it , Nanlv , no radio, clock and other twelve are to be outside the law , but also added four when semitone , playing hit, emit different sound, Qing Yu Chimes possession , the Qing Emperor Qianlong system in use at major ceremonies and Shao music playing time .
Chimes can play the melody of percussion , and more for fun or grand palace Ting Ya festival .
Chimes is to line up a group of several just chime every chime emit different sounds , you can play the melody .
Since the 1970s , China has with the county in Hubei Jiangling and unearthed a large Chimes . Jiangling , Hubei Ji Nan Old City , is the capital of the state of Chu during the Warring States , where in 1970 unearthed a set of 25 Chimes . Chime body is made of limestone with a blue upper as arrogant (gōu) sentence form , mainly as slightly curved surface has a clearer painted floral and slightly uneven pattern. Of which four are painted phoenix bird figure , color and elegant , flowing lines .
Hubei tomb unearthed with the county full of forty-one Chimes , stone , two storeys suspension , the upper sixteen , the lower sixteen , and another nine pieces can be called at any time , this Chimes and bells close tie , can be raised or ensemble on the same playing simultaneously swapping . Its sound effect ” past of the bells on, much of the chime tone Akira .”
The second half of 1980, the Hubei Provincial Museum Wuhan Institute of Physics and cooperation , copy out this 2400 years ago in the early Warring States Period large Chimes , its pronunciation and phonetic original inscriptions Chimes consistent high flood deep bass , treble bright, beautiful tone The sounds , the range of three octaves , you can spin palace transfer , playing a variety of music.
Chimes of the Qing Dynasty , mainly for the celebration of the Emperor and his ministers ” Danbi great music”, a large palace banquet “in the music and clear ” and ” Danbi clear music .” Qianlong produced Chimes , 16 is a set of the same size and thickness are different , the use of Xinjiang and田碧玉, its shape is consistent with the special chime , but smaller, have to use every time you play a full set , with the melody hit played . Fifty-five years in the Qing Emperor Qianlong ( 1790 ) , the Qianlong emperor also produced a set of gold with gold Chimes , and it was also used in conjunction with a gold bells .
Han Percussion Chimes
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Lu is the chime of origin , age chime when Confucius was a master system , with the same kind of material we – Si Bin pumice ( three sources ” volcano , space , terrestrial , ice ages ) drifting rocks ) copy Luo Zhuang Chimes , Temple Chimes , special chime , chime tiger Yin Ruins .
Tiger Tiger Qing Yin Ruins is the family of Wang Dong Yi Lu moved the capital from Anyang Yin carried by land .
1994-95 , Changqing Xianrentai 14 Chimes unearthed , is ” the true nature of the mysterious yellow” Si Bin pumice ( three sources ” volcano , space , terrestrial , ice ages ) drifting rocks ) by the system. Shandong Huatai Group belongs Huatai Mining and ginseng plants are older home in 1994 and 1999 Shandong luo Qing Chong Qing ancient tomb unearthed repair work .
In 1999, East Zhangqiu Jinan unearthed : Chong Han approached Los Instrument: Chimes
金 钟嘉chime , royal splendor, Chimes is an ancient stone percussion instrument , developed from the Spring and Autumn Warring States period to enter Chimes peak. To the Han Dynasty , Chimes gradually decline after the death of the royal families of musical instruments burial rituals gradually decline , and thus , the Han Dynasty unearthed little Chimes . In the Western Han Dynasty unearthed in archaeological domestic Chimes inside, most are not real , but do special sacrifice ” funerary objects .” Such as the famous Changsha Mawangdui unearthed 10 Chimes are ” funerary objects .” There Qufu unearthed kind Jiulong Lu tomb , the tomb was unearthed in the late Western Han 36 Chimes , but not as Luo Han Chuang Chimes of 107 large-scale , quantity, and all kind . It is reported that Luo village unearthed the sum of all these 107 Chimes of ” taupe with macular jade texture ,” Luo Han Si Bin floating village chime Chimes than ever Han Dynasty unearthed in archaeological even more.
According to historical records , mostly ancient ancestral temple Chimes used . Ancient ” Kerry seasons to chime ,” saying here, ” Kerry to ” Western Han Ying Jongmyo Kagura name. Scholars Wang Guowei also pointed out in the article : ” Zhong Qing alone to Kerry to name who the first of its music but also for the temple .”
Luo Zhuang unearthed jade textured taupe with macular Luo Han Si Bin floating village chime 107 Chimes , was unearthed in the summer of 2000 No. 14 Horses of the tomb , and as such the instrument is placed in a specially funerary the burial pit , was first discovered in domestic archeology . This 107 Chimes is divided into six sets, each slightly different number . Are buried in the Chimes hanging shelves when buried , due to musical pit collapse , shelves drained , Chimes also has third fracture. However, these have been broken recently by the provincial Chimes JiaoKeWenWei Shandong Huatai Group is an expert and Si Bin floating mines chime lasted nearly a year of restoration experts repaired .
Luo Han Chong Si Bin 1950s unearthed in Anyang Yin Ruins tiger chime ,70,80 -95 Shandong Thai Si unearthed Chimes and 1999 Los Zhuang tomb unearthed 107 West faces six sets Chimes taupe with macular jade texture floating chime , not black, black Shaanxi Huayuan chime chime , chime in Taihu Lake in Jiangsu , Anhui Lingbi chime , three chime , one can only sound, but sound rather thick, sharp and appetite, rather than short leisurely ; chime outside so to genuine acupuncture石山东the sallow gray red Si Bin floating chime ; resonance and resonant sense of the difference , the second is due to the above-mentioned disadvantages of the different causes of material, non- meteorite impact or it therefore also cause secondary causes of high pressure and temperature : the word kind of music do chime guide or music therapy and acupuncture floating chime Road , then, is the effect of poor.
“Chime : musical instrument ; whom jade or stone , shaped like a moment .” – Chime also called ” http ( Kim Kyu too ) .”
It is said that “chime ” originated in ancient China, in Shun period, it has become a very important instrument . Then ” chime ” is pondering made ​​with jade or stone . Those stone, produced in our Surabaya ( Shandong province in this territory ) deep in the mountains on both sides ; its colors like taupe with macular sallow texture of jade , jade class looks like a general . Taihu is also useful to grind , but this is better quality jade material Surabaya solid and refined.
According to the literature test research : to the south Sarkozy era have made ​​of iron , ” chime” , went to the Liang Dynasty copper have made ​​”chime .”
Early use of jade and stone had made “chime ” is the stone ground stone , shaped like a ” moment ” in the middle folded ends hanging down. Like the Japanese alphabet “ヘ” word , but also like our ” phonetic alphabet ” and “ヘ” word in general. – Made ” chime ” approach, in Kaogongji ( Kaogongji : title, roll ; made ​​hundreds of hands things that Zhou ‘s sixth chapter , also called Winter officer Kaogongji ) had described in his book .
Many ” chime” species , the ” jade chime , chime iron , copper chime , Chimes , Sheng Qing , Song Qing , Song Qing , special chime” and many other types. Each chime , generally are using one to sixteen pieces of stone or iron combination . It is due to differences in the use of stone or iron length thickness , while the issue of different temperament .
For example , ” Chimes ” production methods: it is sixteen pieces of stone ( stone chime ) , in the order of twelve kinds of temperament , the bottom two rows and rows into the composition . There is something called “square ring” of the instrument , it is ” chime” a substitute ; which is aligned with sixteen pieces of rectangular iron plates .
The above mentioned “chime ” are hanging in the ” crossbeam for hanging bells虡( Zhong Qing shelf ) ” on percussion instruments. On the Korean peninsula , and today there are ” Chimes , special chime” and “square ring” was circulated using the . Nara, Japan Kofukuji , shortly before there is a ” Chinese original chime” is preserved, is said to be a very valuable antiquities . Test their shape , are ” Dorian Drum” category.

Han Percussion Chimes
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Chime is a stone hit musical , might by some flake stone working tools evolved. Chime in ancient times known as “Stone ” and ” Ming the ball ” in the mountains of Xixia County Feng Xia Dynasty cultural relics , found a stone chime , stone shaped like a plow with a plow , which obliquely upward , there is a hole for hanging the overall played very rough, and some of the sharp edges have disabilities can still send crisp sound when struck .
Shang Qing has stone , jade and bronze variety , is divided into two, one for a single large chime , military attache at the village of Anyang Yin tomb unearthed tiger-shaped stone chime made ​​of marble, over 3,000 years of history, tone and bronze instruments sound as clear .
Chimes
Chimes can play the melody of percussion : the number of issued only different tone chime organized into a group , can send several different tone to tone .
As early as 3000 years ago, people would chime made ​​of stone ” Chimes ” , Shang Chimes , general三枚a group , the Yin Ruins West unearthed a set of five pieces Chimes . 2000 years ago in the early Warring States Period , Chu ‘s Chimes manufacturing techniques to achieve a higher level.
Chimes of the Qing Dynasty , mainly for the celebration of the Emperor and his ministers ” Danbi great music”, a large palace banquet “in the music and clear ” and ” Danbi clear music .” Qianlong produced Chimes , 16 is a set of the same size and thickness are different , the use of Xinjiang and田碧玉, its shape is consistent with the special chime , but smaller, have to use every time you play a full set , with the melody hit played . Fifty-five years in the Qing Emperor Qianlong ( 1790 ) , the Qianlong emperor also produced a set of gold with gold Chimes , and it was also used in conjunction with a gold bells .
2009 , ” Sixty Years Chinese chime” by the rock gods of human effort to build a master Tao , Daqing tribute to the 60th anniversary of the motherland .
Special chime
Special Qing emperor festival in the world , worship, Confucius while playing musical instruments.
Qing Dynasty, Qing Qing and especially in court music quite widely in use . Special Qing emperor festival in the world , worship, Confucius while playing musical instruments.
12 months of the year , the month of each song played a tune , too , such as the first month with a cluster …… November with Huang Zhong , Lu and other large- December , so special chime has a different pitch 12 , all alone on a wooden chime hanging shelves . They vary in size , the largest is the “yellow bell” , the minimum is ” should clock” , while playing , just put the appropriate special tone chime , when the ensemble at the end of each phrase chime special about each strike , starting strengthening the role of rhythm .
Yun Qing
Cloud chime instruments used for the temple , commonly used in religious music .
Cloud chime : also known as “drawing chime .” Percussion . Shape and Yang Qing same bowl-shaped ride . Form small brass chime body , the shape of sake cup , chime mouth diameter of only 7 cm , placed in the upper end of a long wooden handle , total length of 35 cm . Spin striped wooden handle is decorated .
Cloud chime of instruments used in the temple , but also for religious music. While playing , the lower left hand holding wooden handle . The right hand slender Tonggun percussion , clear pronunciation , commonly used in the Vatican to music percussion rhythm.
Qianlong ( 1736 – 1795 ) made ​​special chime (now Beijing Tiantan collection ) , using Xinjiang and Tian Biyu , shape of a zigzag .