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Bianqing Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Pinyin: Bianzhong

Wooden instruments called the zhu and yu were used in ancient Chinese ritual music. The zhu was a tapered wooden box played by hitting sticks inside, used to mark the beginning of music. The yu was a wooden carving of a tiger with a serrated back, played by hitting a stick on its head three times and across its back once to end music. Stone instruments included various stone chimes, such as the bianqing which was a rack of stone tablets hung from a wooden frame and struck with a mallet. The bianqing and bronze bells called bianzhong were important in ancient Chinese ritual and court music.

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Bianqing Simplified Chinese Traditional Chinese Pinyin: Bianzhong

Wooden instruments called the zhu and yu were used in ancient Chinese ritual music. The zhu was a tapered wooden box played by hitting sticks inside, used to mark the beginning of music. The yu was a wooden carving of a tiger with a serrated back, played by hitting a stick on its head three times and across its back once to end music. Stone instruments included various stone chimes, such as the bianqing which was a rack of stone tablets hung from a wooden frame and struck with a mallet. The bianqing and bronze bells called bianzhong were important in ancient Chinese ritual and court music.

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Wood

Most wood instruments are of the ancient variety. The Zhu and Yu are all examples of
wood instruments.
Zhu a wooden box that tapers from the top to the bottom, played by hitting a stick
on the inside, used to mark the beginning of music in ancient ritual music
It was a percussion instrument used in the Confucian court
ritual music of ancient China. The instrument was used to mark the beginning of
music in the ancient ritual music of China, called yayue. The instrument is rarely used
today, with specimens appearing mainly in Chinese museums, although in Taiwan it
is still used in Confucian ritual music by the Taiwan Confucian Temple.[1]

Yu a wooden percussion instrument carved in the shape of a tiger with a serrated


back, played by hitting a stick with an end made of approximately 15 stalks of
bamboo on its head three times and across the serrated back once to mark the end
of the music

The yu is mentioned, along with another percussion


instrument called zhu (|), in pre-Qin Dynasty annals, and appears in the Classic of
History. It was adopted by the Korean court in ancient times, where it was known
as eo (hangul: ; hanja: ), and is still used in Confucian ritual music.

Stone
The "stone" category comprises various forms of stone chimes. The qing and bianqing are examples
of stone instruments.

Bianqing (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: binqng) a rack of stone


tablets that are hung by ropes from a wooden frame and struck using a mallet
Along with the bronze bells called bianzhong, they were an important instrument in China's

ritual and court music going back to ancient times.


The instrument was imported to Korea, where it is called pyeongyeong. It is still used in Korean
court and ritual music.

Qing is an ancient Chinese musical instrument,[1] usually L-shaped. The set of qing is called
bianqing. The shape of such stones was often quoted as description for the reverent ritual pose.[2][3]
Qing is mentioned in the Analects as one of the instruments played by Confucius.In the Han dynasty
treatises on music, its sound is referred to as "reminding to the monarch about his officers who died
while protecting the borders".

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