Compilation And Research Of Historical Music Materials Of "Zhong Ding Yi Instruments In Past Dynasties"

Xue Shanggong’s Book is the first collection of inscriptions in the field of epigraphy.It is an important monograph in epigraphy,and it creates the style of collection and interpretation of inscriptions in epigraphy.It records many stone and stone instruments such as bell,chime stone,bell-shaped percussion instrument,big bell,bronze tube and so on.From the Xia-Shang-Zhou and Qin and Han dynasties,and copy inscriptions for examination and interpretation.It is a precious material combined with other historical documents or “new materials unearthed from underground” to achieve the purpose of “official history,certificate history and supplement history” of music historical materials.In the many versions of “Xue-Shi inscription”,the block-printed edition of Ming chong zhen Zhu Mouyin is closest to the original version for existing,The music historical materials of“Xue-Shi inscription” mainly comes from《archaeological figure》and《Xuan-he-bo-gu figure》,it contains musical instruments in Zhou Dynasty more than the others,with the main types of bells。The time of casting,sites of coming up,the time of excavation,the scale and weight of the instruments,the pattern of the instruments and the inscriptions on it,as well as the words of Xue-Shi’s examinations and interpretations are summarized in this list.The People of the Song dynasty hadn’t studied epigraphy from musical point of view,most are from Dating of ancient artifacts and paleography interpretation.The music historical materials of“ Xue-Shi inscription” can be divided into 3 classifications according to the purpose: sacrifice and banquet、inscriping and praising contirbutions、bronzeware for dowry,and someother purposes.By analysing them can confirm or layout instrument in scriptions of the contents,such as deduce“Baohebell” belongs to“Hebell”class,and reasons for meanwhile named“zoubell”;“pinbell”should be “pingbell”;“Jiao chime”is used for sacrificial and banqueting occasions;the “nan” of“Chu Qiong zhong nan bell” takes the meaning of “South sound and music” rather than the“South” of orientation;The“Da Lu” of Copper pitch pipe was mistakenly interpreted as “six Lu”and so on.By combining the captured music information with “new materials unearthed from underground” and other people’s research can correct the erroneous ideas and find out the historical facts.