From 0 10 to 10 10, thousands of cultural relics, represented by chimes, unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Houyi shocked the world with their brilliant achievements in culture, art and science and technology. Ceng Houyi, the owner of the mausoleum, therefore attracted the attention of the whole world. However, there is no historical record of Ceng Houyi.
Among the ten thousand cultural relics in Houyi Tomb, the number of chariots and horses is the largest, and its variety, quantity and comprehensive function are unprecedented. There are many long-range weapons, especially long-pole weapons, and extremely rare spear-shaped vehicles. These weapons and equipment are used in vehicle warfare, which shows that Ceng Houyi is a strategist and commander who is good at vehicle warfare.
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The most perfect chime in China was unearthed here.
From 0 10 to 10 10, a large number of musical instruments were buried in the tomb of Zeng Houyi. There are a lot of inscriptions on music theory and rhythm in Zhong Qing's inscriptions, which shows that Ceng Houyi attached great importance to the manufacture of musical instruments and the study of rhythm before his death. There are a large number of precious bronzes, exquisite paintings, sculptures and calligraphy in the tomb, and a large number of cultural relics are not funerary objects, but things used by Ceng Houyi before his death. Most of them are directed by him personally, which shows that he has a wide range of interests, is brilliant and has a high artistic appreciation ability.
Tomb of Zeng Houyi
Our greatest understanding of the tomb of Zeng Houyi is the chime in the tomb of Zeng Houyi. Chimes appeared in Shang Dynasty in China. At present, more than 40 sets of ancient chimes have been unearthed in China, but none of them can be compared with those in Ceng Houyi. First of all, Ceng Houyi has the largest number of chimes, with 65 chimes, which are placed on the clock rack in three layers. Such a large-scale chime was unimaginable in China in the previous archaeological process. At the same time, the chimes in Ceng Houyi have the best sound quality among the unearthed chimes. According to expert appraisal, the smelting of Zeng Houyi's chime was carried out according to certain specifications, and the material and model of the chime reached the peak of technology and technology at that time. It is this unified smelting process that makes the chime of Zeng Houyi almost perfect in sound quality, and it is the highest representative of ancient science and technology in China.
Characteristics of Zeng Houyi's Tomb
Zeng Houyi's chime is a huge musical instrument, which consists of 65 bronze chimes with a range of five and a half octaves, 12 semitones. Its exquisite casting technology and good musical performance have rewritten the history of world music and are called "rare treasures" by experts and scholars at home and abroad. It is the first batch of cultural relics forbidden to go abroad for exhibition in China.
Chime is a large percussion instrument in ancient China, which rose in the Western Zhou Dynasty and flourished in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period until Qin and Han Dynasties. China was the first country to make and use musical clocks. It is made of bronze. Flat round clocks of different sizes are arranged in pitch order and hung on huge clock stands. Using a T-shaped wooden hammer and a long pole to strike a bronze bell can produce different musical sounds. Because the pitch of each clock is different, beautiful music can be played according to the score. A set of bronze bells with different tones hung on the lead frame, and ancient ladies-in-waiting beat the music with mallets.
1978 at 5: 00 a.m. on May 22nd, after the water in the tomb was drained, Ceng Houyi's majestic chimes revealed their true colors. Everyone present was stunned by this exquisite bronze caster: more than 2,400 years later, 65 clocks weighing 2,567 kilograms were neatly hung on wooden clock stands.