The origin of the music box:

It can be traced back to the European Renaissance in the Middle Ages. At that time, in order to make the church bell tower tell time, mechanical devices were installed on large and small clocks, which were called "sounding bells." In 1598, Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci came to Beijing for the first time, and among his gifts was a music instrument. This is the earliest musical instrument recorded in history that entered China. After various inventions and creations, around 1780, the Swiss in La Yunfang were inspired by the principle of the puppet automatic clock and invented an amazing mechanism-the mechanical birdsong clock.

In 1796, the invention of a Geneva clockmaker brought revolutionary changes to the mechanical music box, allowing the size of the music box to be reduced to the limit, and it was successfully developed in the following century.

In 1870, a German inventor created the first disk-type music box.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the music box industry became the largest industry in Switzerland, surpassing the watchmaking and lace industry, which made the small town located on the edge of the Swiss Jura Mountains famous throughout the world.

After World War II, the Japanese vigorously entered the music box industry.

In 1992, China’s first musical instrument with intellectual property rights was born in Yunsheng.

Renaissance:

Refers to an ideological and cultural movement that emerged in Italian cities at the end of the 13th century and later spread to Western European countries. It was popular in Europe in the 16th century and brought about A period of scientific and artistic revolution, which opened the prelude to modern European history and is considered the boundary between the medieval era and modern times. Marxist historians believe that it is the dividing line between the feudal era and the capitalist era. At the end of the Middle Ages, as the Ottomans continued to invade the Eastern Roman Empire, the people of Eastern Rome, while fleeing, brought a large number of ancient Greek and Roman cultural classics and art treasures to the commercially developed cities in Italy. Some advanced intellectuals among the emerging bourgeoisie resorted to studying the art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.