Lu is the origin of chimes, and Confucius was an expert in making chimes in the Spring and Autumn Period. We copied Luozhuang chimes, Confucian chimes, special chimes with the same material—Sibin pumice (three sources: volcanoes, space, land sources, and glacial metamorphic rocks). Chime, Yin Ruins tiger pattern chime.
From 1994 to 1995, 14 braided chimes were unearthed from Changqing Xianrentai, and they were also made of Sibin pumice stone of "natural color black yellow". Huatai Mining and factories affiliated to Shandong Huatai Group participated in the restoration of ancient chimes unearthed in Changqing in 1994 and in 1999 in Luozhuang Han tomb in Shandong.
Unearthed in Dongzhangqiu, Jinan in 1999: Approaching Luozhuang Han Tomb
The golden bell and the chime of the royal family are brilliant. The chime is a kind of stone-made percussion instrument in ancient times. It developed from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period and entered the peak period of the chime. In the Han Dynasty, the chimes gradually declined, and the rituals and customs of musical instruments buried with the royal family and nobles gradually declined. Therefore, very few chimes were unearthed in the Han Dynasty. Among the Western Han Dynasty chimes unearthed in domestic archaeology, most of them are not real objects, but "clear utensils" specially used for sacrifices. For example, in the famous Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, 10 pieces of chimes were unearthed, all of which are "bright wares".
The unearthed objects include the tomb of King Lu in Jiulong Mountain, Qufu. The tomb has unearthed 36 pieces of chimes from the late Western Han Dynasty, but they are not as large and numerous as the 107 pieces of chimes from the Luozhuang Han tomb, and all of them are real objects. It is reported that the 107 pieces of Sibin floating chimes from the Luozhuang Han tomb, which are "grey-brown with yellow-spotted jade texture" unearthed from the Han tomb in Luozhuang, are more than the sum of all the chimes unearthed in the archaeology of the previous Han Dynasty.
According to historical records, weaving chimes were mostly used by ancestral temples in ancient times. In ancient times, there was a saying of "Four Seasons Jiazhi chime", and the "Jiazhi" here is the name of the Western Han Dynasty's ancestral temple to welcome the gods. The literati Wang Guowei also pointed out in the article: "Zhongqing is the only one who is famous for Jiazhi, and it is the head of temple music."
The 107 chimes of Sibin floating chimes in the Luozhuang Han tomb, which are gray-brown with yellow-spotted jade texture, were unearthed in the Luozhuang Han Tomb. They were unearthed in the No. 14 burial pit of the tomb in the summer of 2000. It is the first time that the burial in the pit has been discovered in domestic archaeology. The 107 pieces of chimes are divided into 6 sets, and the number of each set is slightly different. During the burial, they were all hung on the chime frame and buried in the soil. Later, because the instrument pit collapsed, the frame fell down, and one-third of the chime was broken. However, these fractured chimes have been repaired for nearly a year by experts from the province's education, science, culture and health and the restoration of Sibin floating chimes from factories and mines affiliated to Shandong Huatai Group.

The tiger-patterned chimes from Yin Ruins in Anyang in the 1950s, the braided chimes unearthed in the Taisi area of Shandong in 1970 and 1995, and the six sets of braided chimes unearthed from the Western Han tomb in Luozhuang in 1999. Floating chimes are by no means black. The black chimes are Shaanxi Huayuan chimes, Jiangsu Taihu chimes, and Anhui Lingbi chimes. One of these three chimes is that they can only sound, but the sound is not thick, sharp but not vibrating, and short but not long; In a word: resonance and resonance are poor. Second, the above shortcomings are caused by different raw materials, not the meteorite impact or the secondary high temperature and high pressure caused by it; It is very ineffective to do chime music guidance or music therapy and floating chime-bianstone road.
"Qing: a musical instrument; it is made of jade or stone, and its shape is like a rectangle." Qing is also called "Mian (Jin Gui Ye)".
It is said that "Qing" originated in ancient China, and it is said that it became a very important musical instrument during the Yu and Shun periods. At that time, the "Qing" was made of jade or stone. Those stones are produced in the deep mountains on both sides of the ancient Sishui River in my country; their color is similar to gray-yellow gray-brown with a macular texture, and it looks like jade. It is also ground with Taihu stone, but this quality is not as firm and delicate as the jade from Surabaya.
According to the textual research, it was only in the Southern Qi Dynasty that there were "chimes" made of iron, and only in the Liang Dynasty were "chimes" made of copper.
In the early days, the "Qing" made of jade and stone materials was made by grinding stones into stone pieces, which were shaped like a "square", bent in the middle and lowered at both ends. It is like the "ヘ" character of the Japanese alphabet, and it is also very similar to the "ヘ" character of my country's "phonetic symbol". The method of making "Qing" was described in the book Kaogongji (Kaogongji: book title, one volume; about a hundred work. That is, the sixth chapter of Zhou Li, also known as Dongguan Kaogongji).
There are many types of "chimes", including "jade chimes, iron chimes, copper chimes, braided chimes, Sheng chimes, song chimes, song chimes, and special chimes". Each kind of chime is roughly composed of one to sixteen pieces of stone or iron. It is due to the use of the difference in length and thickness of stone or iron pieces to produce different rhythms. For example, the production method of "weave chime": it is composed of sixteen stone pieces (stone chimes) arranged in two rows up and down according to the order of twelve melody. There is also a musical instrument called "square ring", which is a substitute for "qing"; it is formed by arranging sixteen rectangular iron plates.
The "qings" mentioned above are all musical instruments that are hung on the "zhangjiao (bell chime shelf)". In the Korean peninsula, there are still "bian chime", "special chime" and "fang chime" in use today. In the Kofukuji Temple in Nara, Japan, a "Huayuan chime" was preserved not long ago, which is said to be a very precious antiquities. Examining its shape, it belongs to the category of "zheng drum".