Pistachio is a large single percussion instrument of the ancient Han nationality. Aristocrats often used it in conjunction with bells and chimes when feasting or offering sacrifices. It is characterized by a ring button, a flat mouth, and an oval or tile-shaped body.
Unearthed in Miaoqian Village, Wanrong County, Shanxi in 1970, it is tall and tall, with a small roof and a large tile-shaped cover. The hollow flat button is in the shape of a double dragon swallowing a winged beast. There are thirty-six slightly convex screw-shaped pieces on both sides of the body. The drum is decorated with cloud and thunder patterns. The body of the vessel is inscribed with eighteen lines and one hundred and seventy-five characters. Remember that Su Ming's ancestor, Uncle Bao, made great contributions to the state of Qi, and Duke Huan gave him the historical facts of picking colors. In order to encourage himself, Su Ming cast this musical instrument to worship his mother Zhongjiang, and wished his descendants happiness.

Eastern Zhou Bronze Bell

Category: Bronze
Size: Height 44cm
In the former collection of a French collector, this mushroom is in the shape of a tile, and the buttons are in the shape of two dragons. There are thirty-six dragon-shaped pieces on both sides of the front and back, arranged as usual, and the mouth is straight. The dance department, the seal room and the drum department are all decorated with similar Kuilong patterns. This piece and Lot1662 should be two pieces in the same group of mushroom weaving. This piece is larger in size.

White-glazed Porcelain

Overall height 19.5 cm
Unearthed in 1999
Shaped like a bronze mushroom. The outer wall of the vessel is divided into three layers decorated with fine diced rib, with three rows of diced rib at intervals, and the top of the vessel is decorated with button marks. The whole body is covered with white glaze. Ancient Han musical instruments, prevalent in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, made of bronze, shaped like a bell, with a flat rim and buttons, hung alone, and rang with a hammer. "Zhou Li·Chun Guan" has the article "Fushi Shi". The earliest porcelain mushrooms are found in the tomb of Yue Kingdom nobles in Hongshan, Wuxi, Jiangsu.
Nohara
The overall height is 40.8cm, the width is 31.8cm, and the weight is 18.84kg.
It was unearthed in Ruizhou (Gao'an County), Jiangxi Province in the 16th year of Emperor Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1890).
The button used to hang the mushroom is made of two beasts facing each other. There are 36 flat breasts on both sides, which constitute the main body of the mushroom decoration, and the rest are decorated with pancake patterns.
The Nohhara Mushroom is a group of braided mushrooms, composed of several inscriptions into a whole, and this inscription is only one of them. It is difficult to find out how many pieces of this group of weaving mushrooms are in total. It is known that in addition to this one in the Forbidden City, there is also one in the Forbidden City in Taipei. Judging from the content of the inscriptions, the number of the whole group of weaving mushrooms is far more than these two pieces. The text on this set of utensils is extremely difficult to decipher, and scholars in the past vaguely recognized the word "Nengyuan", so it was named "Nengyuan Bell", or simply admitted that it could not be interpreted, and named it "Odd-character Clock".
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in southern my country (such as Chu, Cai, Xu, Zeng, Wu, Yue and other countries at that time), an extremely exaggerated artistic font was prevalent, which was called "Bird and Insect Book", which was characterized by strokes and birds. Shapes are mixed together. After several generations of scholars' research and analysis, the writing rules of most of the characters in this script have been mastered, but some of the characters cast on the musical instruments and weapons of the Yue State belong to the bird and insect script, which is still difficult to interpret. " is one of the typical set of artifacts.
In recent years, in order to solve this problem in the study of bronze inscriptions, the Palace Museum has initiated a discussion on "Nohara Fungus" in the academic journal, which has been widely supported by the academic community. Among them, Mr. Cao Jinyan's paper provides an interpretation of the general content of this group of inscriptions, and now his analysis of the content of the inscriptions is reproduced as follows: "Because the state of Ju expanded its territory and invaded the state of Zhu, the state of Yue intervened and presided over the state. After this division of territory, he took the opportunity to expand the land and build a city, connecting Zhu and Ju under his feet. The inscription records the content of the alliance between Yue, Zhu and Ju.”

Pancreas-patterned mushroom

Pan-patterned mushroom, late Spring and Autumn period, 108cm in height, 93.5cm in width and 13.9kg in weight.
The deep cavity of this mushroom has a flat mouth and an oval cross-section. The hollow pan-patterned buttons are staggered layer by layer, gorgeous and neat. "Dance", "Seal", "Tunnel" and other places are decorated with pan-stalk patterns, and there are 36 cubits "pieces".