In the Northern Song Dynasty, Qian Yi's "New Book of the South" contained: "Han (that is, he entered the DPRK and sent envoys to Shu. In Luogu Mountain Pepper, the giant trees are luxuriant and lovely, and the voices of blackbirds are different. Dismount, bow and shoot at the top, branches fall into the valley, with the charm of stone. Give it back, stop the county Yinyang woodcutter from cutting it, take it to dry, and take it back. I don't know the name of a good craftsman. As strong as purple stone, gold thread interweaves. The craftsman said,' this is the flute of the huqin, and he is not worthy of wood.' So it is Erqin, the famous one is called "Da Lei" and the small one is called "Xiao Lei". Because the emperor in the temple said he was happy, (I) sacrificed Da Lei to the forbidden area, and Xiao Lei was in Qinren Square. "? This big thunder tiger (pictured) is made of a whole piece of purple thorny sandalwood, with a total length of 89 cm and a belly width of 20.5 cm. The lower part of the piano is carved with an oval abdominal cavity covered with python skin, forming a semi-pear-shaped sounding box. The upper part of the piano is a slender neck with a tasteless fingerboard in front. Carved into a faucet above the neck, it looks like protruding eyes and mouth, and its expression is more vivid. There is an ebony pipa on each side of the piano head, with straight petals carved on the surface and bone ornaments embedded on the top. Two silk threads pass through the submandibular chord hole, pass through the mountain pass and bridge, and are tied to the tail column at the lower end of the back of the bridge. The word "Great Tiger Thunder" is engraved on the lower part of the mountain pass in front of the neck. Under the word, a piece of ivory is inlaid on the neck, and a piece of jasper is connected below. The headdress of the piano is painted with gold, and the back of the piano is decorated with painted gold and double phoenix in addition to red paint. Exquisite craftsmanship and rough and beautiful appearance are masterpieces.
For more than 50 years after the establishment of the center (AD 78 1), the thunder tiger has been hiding in the palace. In the ninth year of Taihe (AD 835), a massacre occurred in the imperial court, and Li Yan, a martial artist, succeeded to the throne, pursuing literati, enviing Shi Liang and endangering Yuefu. All the musicians and eunuchs favored by Yuefu will be punished and demoted. ?
500 years have passed quickly. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Yang Weizhen (1296- 1370), a native of Zhuji (now Zhejiang), discovered the Great Lakes Thunder. Yang Weizhen was a famous litterateur and calligrapher in Yuan Dynasty. His name was Lian Fu, and he called himself "Tiedi Taoist" or "Tiexin Taoist". The style of writing is peculiar, with historical events or myths as the theme, including "Ancient Yuefu on Tieya" and "Selected Works on Tieya". He wrote in "Xie Lu Jingfu's Red Tooth Tube Song and Preface": "Yun Lv's old palace people passed on stories, and Cangjiang Tainiang Gaijingfu was good at relying on songs to make peace with thunder people, so it was mentioned in the poem." There is a saying in the poem that "the iron flute is centered on the length of the road, and the Longmen stone is cracked by thunder", which shows that the expressive force of thunder is indeed magnificent. ?
In the spring of the second year of Qing Dynasty (19 10), Liu, a scholar in Guichi, Anhui Province, never forgot to look for Da Lei. He wrote in "The Biography of Xiao Lei": "Grain Rain and Xiao Lei robbed the fire and did not lose it. Then the thunder still exists in the world and cannot be forgotten. " Sure enough, not long after, in the same year, Liu got a big thunder that he missed day and night. He continued in The Legend of Little Lei Hu: "In winter and November, I visited Zhang Ruishan, a pianist in Daxing, and talked with him about ancient music. (Zhang) It is said that thirty years ago (in the early years of Guangxu), I got an ancient musical instrument to sound thunder ... Ruishan can play it, and its sound is clear. " According to the biography of pillow thunder, "Zhang Jun (Ruishan) is seventy or fifty years old this year. He is good at music and tigers, and can break the songs for the king of Qin. " When Liu and Zhang are together, if they meet bosom friends, they compare and agree with each other. "The broken lines are indistinguishable from the existing collections of Tang Weilei and Lei Xiao's pianos and lacquerware. This is an enclosed letter about Tang objects." Ruishan took Xiao Lei at Liu's place and was willing to return Da Lei. Shi Heng got what he wanted. Then I asked Lin Shu to make a map, and the pavilion was renamed "Double Thunder Pavilion", and I specially made a map of Erqi in 19 1 1, and recorded its poems as a skill set, that is, the "Double Thunder Skill" passed down to future generations. Since then, lightning has been inseparable. Shortly after Liu's death in Shanghai, Thunder and Lightning changed hands twice and finally belonged to Liu Hui, a collector in Nanxun, Huzhou, Zhejiang. In the early 1950s, the national cultural relics department bought this rare ancient musical instrument, Dahulei, from Mr. Liu and allocated it to the Palace Museum for collection. It was also included in the large-scale album "Chinese Musical Instrument Picture Book". ?
In 1930s, Datong Music Club, a famous Shanghai folk music group, was initiated by its president, with the participation of highly skilled folk musical instrument producers such as Miao Jinlin and Luo. They used to design or imitate China ancient and modern musical instruments with reference to historical photos. One of them is a big thunder, trying to reform it. The appearance has been obviously different from that of Dahulei in the Tang Dynasty. The stem is thin and long, the sounding box is oval, covered with python skin, the piano head is square, flat-topped, without decoration, and there are six frets on it, two on the front, two on the left and two on the right, and the strings are numbered. The appearance is similar to that of sanxian. As an alto instrument, this big thunder tiger participated in the band ensemble organized by the music club at that time. It's a pity that this big thunder didn't come down because of the war. ?