Zeng Houyi's chime is known as "a major musical archaeological discovery that shocked the world" because of its superb casting technology, good musical performance and important position in the history of music.

The casting technique of Zeng Houyi's chimes is superb. This set of chimes consists of sixty-five bronze bells, divided into three layers, with a range of five and a half octaves and twelve semitones. Under the condition of relatively backward ancient science and technology, it is not easy to cast chimes of this scale. The size, shape and internal structure treatment of the bell body all reflect the superb level of casting technology. In particular, the sound quality of chimes has remained good for more than 2, years, which is amazing.

Zeng Houyi's chime plays an important role in the history of music. Its discovery rewrote the history of world music and showed the rich connotation and high development of China ancient music. The chime has a wide range and can play a variety of music works, which embodies the prosperity of ancient China music art. In addition, the unearthed bells of Zeng Houyi also revealed the maturity and perfection of the ritual and music system in ancient China.

the cultural value of Zeng Houyi's chime cannot be ignored. The decorative patterns on the chime body, such as relief, dragon pattern and petal pattern, show the exquisite carving skills of ancient China. The bronze men with swords embodied the etiquette culture of ancient China and enhanced the historical and cultural connotation of chimes.

Brief introduction of Zeng Houyi's chimes

The bells of Zeng Houyi in the Warring States Period are a set of large-scale ritual and music objects of Zeng Guojun in the early Warring States Period. They were unearthed in the tomb of Zeng Houyi in Leigudun, Suixian County, Hubei Province in 1978, and are now in the Hubei Provincial Museum, which is the "treasure of the town hall".

The bell rack of Zeng Houyi in the Warring States Period is 748 cm long and 265 cm high. There are 65 sets of bells, which are hung in three layers and eight groups. The maximum bell is 152.3 cm high and weighs 23.6 kg. It was cast by muddy casting and separate casting, using brazing, casting inlay, staggered gold and other techniques, as well as decorative techniques such as round carving, relief, intaglio carving, lacquering and painting.

each clock can play two tones in a third scale, and the full set of clocks has twelve semitones, which can be rotated in the palace. Tone train is a popular C major, which can play music with five, six or seven tones.

refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Zeng Houyi chimes for the above contents.