"New Book of Tang Pyu Biography" contains: "The four bells and cymbals are made like the Kucha, with three inches around them, and they are pierced with Wei, and they are knocked to meet the festival." Hit on a strong beat. In the first year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1573), it was introduced into Lijiang, Yunnan. The Qing Dynasty "Dynasty Ritual Schema" called the bell as a bell cymbal.
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