How many pieces of Guqin "Nine Xiao Huan Pei" are there?

There are four * * * pieces of Nine-Xiao Huanpei.

According to comprehensive media reports, there are four * * * pieces of Nine-Xiao Huanpei, one in the Palace Museum in Beijing, one in the China National Museum, one in the Liaoning Provincial Museum and one in Mr. Ru's private collection.

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Li Pengpeng's Tang Dynasty guqin "Nine-Xiao Huanpei" (Source: CCTV News)

According to the website of the Palace Museum, the "Nine-Xiao Huanpei" is a work by Lei in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, with a plane tree as the face, a Chinese fir as the bottom and purple paint all over it. On the top of Longchi at the bottom of the piano, there is the name of the seal script "Nine Little Rings", and on the bottom, there is the seal script "including" the big seal. Chi Zuo's running script: beyond the sky, free and unfettered Tai Chi. Tingjian. Running script above the foot of the piano: gentle spring breeze, ringing and ringing. The curtain is draped in new Yan language, and the sea is covered with old dragons. Su Shi Ji. In other words, this piano was once the collection of Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and others.

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Nine-sky hoop adorns the guqin panorama (Source: Palace Museum website)

Nine-sky, symbolizing supremacy and wearing a hoop, is a jade ornament. It clinks when you walk, and its sound is crisp and beautiful. "The History of the Qin" says: "The Qin has four beauties, one is good system, the other is good temperament, the third is wonderful finger, and the fourth is right heart." If the four beauties exist, it can touch the heaven, the earth, the people and the gods.

In terms of workmanship, the Nine-Xiao Huanpei represents the highest level of the piano.

China's earliest piano

"Nine-Xiao Huanpei" unearthed from Guojia Temple in Hubei Province has a history of more than 1, years, while in recent years, Guojia Temple in Zaoyang, Hubei Province unearthed a China's earliest piano, which is more than 2,7 years ago, which is one thousand years earlier than "Nine-Xiao Huanpei".

A few years ago, in a tomb of the State of Zeng in the early Spring and Autumn Period in Guojiamiao, Zaoyang, archaeologists found a relatively complete Qin and an instrument at the same time, which is the earliest combination of Qin and an instrument known at present, and Qin is the earliest Qin discovered so far.

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The earliest piano in China was unearthed from Guojia Temple in Hubei Province (Source: China News Network)

It is reported that the piano discovered this time is 27 years ago, about 3 years earlier than Ceng Houyi's ten-string piano, and it is the earliest physical object so far. The whole piano is about 92 cm long and 35 cm wide, and it appears in the northeast corner of the coffin.

This guqin rewrote the understanding of guqin in China's music history, and also made people daydream: this unearthed guqin is contemporary with the story of meeting a bosom friend in Boya period in the Spring and Autumn Period, and it may be the same as the one played in Boya period.

The ten-stringed Qin with relief of the Warring States Period in Hubei Provincial Museum is one of the most exquisite guqin.

It is one of the most culturally rich musical instruments to meet a bosom friend in the mountains and rivers. The ten-stringed Qin in the Warring States period, which is hidden in the Hubei Provincial Museum, may satisfy everyone's perfect imagination of guqin.

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Relief 1-stringed piano collected in Hubei Provincial Museum (data map)

This piano was unearthed in Tomb No.2 of Jiuliandun, Zaoyang, Hubei Province. It was painted with black paint and decorated with Zhu, and it has a strong Chu culture. It is one of the most exquisite guqin seen from the pre-Qin to the Western Han Dynasty. The piano body is divided into two parts: the speaker and the tailboard. According to experts' analysis, the ten-stringed piano also played the role of an instrument in the Warring States period, which was used to communicate with heaven and earth during sacrifice.