Music is an important part of Chinese excellent traditional culture and the psychological basis for the formation of Chinese traditional concept of harmony. Sponsored by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and the People's Government of Hubei Province, and organized by 15 cultural and museum institutions across the country, including Hubei Provincial Museum, Hunan Provincial Museum, a...

The pottery bell is an ancient percussive body-sounding instrument. A painted pottery bell about 4,800 years ago was unearthed at the Qijiaji site in Guanghe County, Gansu Province. The bell is in the shape of a gourd, with a crank handle, a bulging belly, a flat bottom, and a rhombus grid pattern and arc pattern black color. A 4,500-year-old pottery bell unearthed from the Shij...