The ancients used the word "Long Yin" to describe the sound of dragons, which is different from the sounds made by animals such as lions, tigers, bears and wolves. A Dream of Red Mansions once wrote the rhyme of Xiaoxiang Pavilion with "the phoenix tail is dense and the dragon is thin", which really makes people think deeply. Reminiscent of ancient poems, such as "Long Yin in the Storm", I think someone must have heard Long Yin's voice.
It's just that the ancients were trapped by the conditions at that time and couldn't really convey the dragon's voice to us. A more vivid metaphor is a brake when the sword is drawn out of its sheath. The metal piece is stirred by friction and makes a loud hum, which was also called "Long Yin" by the ancients. In addition, both piano and flute have nicknames of "dragon", but it is difficult for us to determine which one is the real dragon sound from the sounds they make.
The Tang Dynasty poet Gao Shengjiao ran once wrote "Long Yin in a Copper Bowl". It is described in the preface of the poem that when I was studying in Zhong Nanshan in my early years, I often heard a strange metallic sound echoing in the mountains and asked the local elders, saying that it was "singing dragons, it's going to rain". Soon, he saw the masterpieces of clouds and mountains and rains. Later, I occasionally went to a mountain temple and heard this voice in the forest ridge. When I searched, I found that the old monk was rubbing a bronze musical instrument, which was the earliest musical instrument in China to imitate the sound of a dragon-the "fake dragon". In the mid-Tang Dynasty, this musical instrument spread in Zhejiang, Henan and other places.
Li He's "False Dragon Yin Ge" once wrote:
The stone rolled the copper cup and sang and withered.
The eagle bleeds, and the phoenix bleeds.
Guizi falls, and the cloud makes the car cover.
If the wood dies, the sand collapses, and the island collapses, the mother will not die. In the pot, the saliva was broken and the golden claw was buried in the water.
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To be exact, Fang Guan saw a red gold bowl, that is, a copper bowl, which Jiao Ran called a copper bowl, which was not much different from the "rolling copper cup" mentioned in Li He's poems. It is a bowl-shaped brass instrument, but it is different from percussion instruments such as cymbals, bells, boring and cymbals. The old monk I saw in the room used the method of "emergency stop" to make him make a sound, while Li said "get out". Although there are some differences, it does not mean knocking, but rubbing, that is, frictional vibration. Looking at Li He's poems, it should be that the edge of the bronze ware is rubbed with stone tools to make a sound, and there may still be water in the bronze ware. Watching the performance of the old monk in the room seems to be putting a copper bowl in the water, but can this operation spread to the air? I don't know.
I went to Malacca a few years ago and saw someone performing with a copper plate in an ancient local building. First, fill the plate with clear water, and quickly rub the outer edge of the copper basin with both hands to make a buzzing sound. With the help of the vibration of water waves, the spread of sound waves is strengthened, and the effect of being heard far and near is really achieved, which is quite similar to Jiao Ran's poem "The sound suddenly fades". Later, I have seen people perform in this way, but most of them use sound waves to stir up water waves, which makes people curious.
Although it imitates the sound of a dragon, the "fake dragon rhyme" is the closest musical instrument to the sound of a dragon on record. The propagation time of "pseudo-dragon" seems to be very short. Although there are poems and songs, they have not caused repercussions in the world. There is a simple reason. This kind of sound is only suitable for spreading in remote mountainous areas. Without that deep and cold environment, it will lose its amazing power. The house gives people the impression that it is "quiet and quiet, cleansing people's evil thoughts", while Jiao Ran thinks that "it can make listeners easy to persevere and worry about others and forget themselves." As for monks who enter an empty net, they should have no worries, impatience and evil thoughts. To them, the dragon's voice is "all is silent, nothing is empty", and "fake dragon poison" is not so much an imitation of dragon poison as a portrayal of Zen loneliness. The poet Li He simply used the word "withered" to describe the dragon's voice, which is extremely clear and quiet, implying that this extraordinary voice will bring people to a state of silence and death. These "fake dragons" have disappeared.
Since then, no one in the world has ever known the sound of dragons.