How to play the Eight Treasures Bronze Bells

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When playing, the left hand holds the middle wooden handle of the copper bell vertically and shakes it up and down. When sitting and playing, it can also hit the shoulders and knees. The sound is loud and clear.
In the old days, it was used in ritual activities such as sacrificing and welcoming gods and sending ghosts hosted by Tujia shamans (also known as Tima and Tu Laosi), holding the eight-treasure bronze bell in the left and the horn in the right. singing and dancing.

How to play the Eight Treasures Bronze Bells

After the 1950s, the folk traditional "Eight Treasures Bronze Bell Dance" was introduced. The dancers held an Eight Treasures Bronze Bell in each hand and danced while playing. After the 1970s, Babao copper bells were used in instrumental ensembles such as the Tujia musical instrument dong dong quin, which is a rhythm instrument with national characteristics.
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The Eight Treasures Copper Bell (pinyin: Bā bǎo tóng líng) is a bell handle made of a piece of hard wood that is one foot long and two centimeters in diameter. The fork is the horse's feet, and four copper bells the size of eggs are tied at each end (a total of eight copper bells). At one end of the horse's head, there are also five-color cloth strips (or hemp silk) five inches long and one inch wide. When performing, hold the bell handle and shake the copper bell according to the plot of the show, which is pleasant to the ear. The number of people performing the bronze bell dance is generally eight, but there are more than one or twenty people, but they all wear phoenix caps and eight Luo skirts (red, yellow, and blue three-colored eight cloth skirts, just like today's) folded skirt), performing activities on a flat ground (or a courtyard dam).

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Organized by 卷鹅 on 2022-02-09
The Eight Treasures Copper Bell is made of a hard miscellaneous wood with a length of one foot and a diameter of two centimeters as the bell handle. There are four copper bells the size of an egg (a total of eight copper bells), and at one end of the horse's head there are also five-inch long and one-inch wide strips of five-color cloth (or hemp silk) for horsehair.
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