Chinese instruments

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).

Since the implementation of the "Double Reduction" policy, primary and secondary schools in Xuan'en County have strictly implemented the national education policy, constantly innovated and explored, and made efforts to build minority schools with the help of local ethnic culture, allowing students to practice "dance" on campus.comprehensive development.

The school makes full use of the time of activity classes and dance classes to voluntarily teach folk cultural skills to children. While inheriting the intangible cultural heritage, it also promotes the implementation of the "double reduction" work.

According to Luo Wenheng, director of the Culture and Sports Bureau of Xuan'en County, Hubei Province, the eight-treasure bronze bell dance, also known as "Jie Qian", is a traditional dance of the Tujia people and is the most popular in the Xuan'en area of Enshi.

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.

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.