There is an ancient and touching love story circulating in Shuicheng.

Once upon a time, there was a young Buyi man and woman in Shuicheng. The boy was called Yin Ge and the girl was called Jin Niang. The two hit it off and fell deeply in love. In autumn, the river surged, preventing the two from meeting. A pair of lovers suffer in longing. The rhinoceros was very compassionate and carried Yin Ge and Jin Niang across the river to meet each other for three consecutive years.

When it was time to prepare for marriage, Rhinoceros heard from the fairy family that the two were not destined to be united and would never appear again. The two could not meet each other and agreed to die in love. When Brother Yin and Jin Niang jumped into the rolling river, a golden light suddenly flashed, and they stood on the back of the rhinoceros. The rhinoceros carried them to the sea.

Yin Ge’s father and Jin Niang’s mother missed their children so much that they went through many hardships, begging for scraps of copper from various villages, and asked the emperor for a title. Two bronze drum chimes, one male and one female, were cast. On the sixth day of June, the bronze drum chimes rang, and Yin Ge and Jin Niang came back standing on the backs of rhinos.

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Bronze drums and chimes

The drum surface is decorated with four to eight frogs, some are big frogs carrying small frogs, and some are big frogs There are also several small frogs in it. This is the worship of frogs by the ancients. Because "the crowing of frogs is the essence of the bronze drum (drum)" and "the one with the loudest drum sound is the best", turtles and frogs can tell the weather, so they are regarded as sacred objects.

The bronze drum is an important weapon of the ancestors of the Zhuang people, and the frog on the drum is a symbol of totem worship. The flying heron pattern, the twelve zodiac signs, the money pattern, etc. are all related to natural phenomena and organisms that are closely related to agricultural production.

Chimes are a kind of percussion instrument in ancient my country. They are made of bronze. They are composed of oblate bells of different sizes arranged in order of pitch and hung on a huge bell frame with a T-shaped bell. Using wooden hammers and long sticks to strike the copper bells separately can produce different tones. Because each bell has a different tone, if you strike it according to the music score, you can play beautiful music.

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