Who can talk about the history of wind chimes?

China ancient invention: Wind chimes are made up of several pieces of metal or glass, rings, tubes and so on. Hang it with silk thread, under the window eaves, under the porch or in other ventilated places indoors, and listen to the jingle of the blades hitting each other. This is called wind chime. Some people mistakenly think that this thing is a new thing and a modern invention; Some people even think it is imported, which is even more ridiculous. In fact, the appearance of wind chimes in China can be traced back to ancient times. When the first volume of Miscellanies of Xijing mentioned Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, there were "nine golden dragons on the Zhaoyang Hall in Chang 'an, each holding nine golden bells", which was the earliest wind chime. Zhaoyang Hall is a harem built by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, where Zhao Yanfei, the emperor's queen, lived. Because the word "nine sons" means "many sons", the palace is often placed in the emperor's dormitory or the residence of the empresses to pray for the blessing of childbirth. However, Miscellanies of Xijing is generally considered to be the work of Liang Dynasty, which is not necessarily reliable and unknown to today's imagination. Because "The Postscript of Heather Qi Fei's Emperor's East Faint" has such a record: "There are nine jade bells in Zhuang Yan Temple ... (referring to the emperor) all stripped off and decorated the hall with stones." Miscellanies of Xijing may move the history of Nanqi to the Western Han Dynasty. Historical materials in Nan Shi may reveal that the hanging bell on the cornice originally originated from Buddhist architecture in China, and only later became a common decoration in secular temples. There is a poem by Xiao Gang, Emperor of Liang Jianwen: "The wind blows drums and the bell rings in the daytime." The bell will ring because it contains a copper tongue, and the lower part is called wind. When the wind blows, the tongue moves, hitting the bell and pronouncing naturally. Hanging wind chimes on buildings may have a practical function besides decoration, that is, scaring birds and keeping them from staying to keep the eaves clean. If the bell originated from stupa temple, it may have some other religious symbolic significance (bell was originally a Buddhist instrument). In the Sui Dynasty, the shape of wind chimes changed and another kind appeared. The name is Bo Yulong. Tang Fengzhi's "Fireworks in the South" tells a story: Queen Yang Di "watched the pond bamboo, and the water in the pond was dry. After the Sui Dynasty, she often remembered it and couldn't sleep at night. Emperor Yang made dozens of thin jade dragons, hung on the eaves with strands of thread, and collided with each other at night because of the wind, just like bamboo. " The so-called thin jade dragon is a wind chime that sounds when several thin jade pieces cut into dragon shapes collide with each other. Since then, this novel wind chime has often been placed in the court. For example, the "Kaiyuan Tianbao Heritage" says: "Broken jade pieces are hung in the bamboo forest in the palace (Li Fan, the fourth son of Tang Ruizong Li Dan). Every time I hear the sound of jade pieces colliding, I know that there is wind, and the number is Zhan Fengduo. " And soon, this wind chime spread from the court to the people. Because the dragon is the symbol of the emperor, people take the shape of a horse instead. Rich and powerful people still generally use jade at home, but ordinary people can't afford it, so they are probably not allowed to use it, so they use bamboo carvings instead. Thus, the names of Yu Xiang, Yuma and Ma Feng came into being. In the Tang Dynasty, the literati who loved posthumous title generally referred to wind chimes and wind horses as "organ" and "kite", and thought that Tintin's voice in winter and winter was like a piano and a kite, "the wind becomes sound and is self-harmonious." For example, "The two corridors are beating and the kites are singing in the four corners", "The night wind in the West Building is urgent" and "Wu Si is carved with bamboo, the sky is blowing high and the palace merchants are in the air". By the way, the name of the kite (commonly known as "kite") we are talking about today began in the Song Dynasty, but it was always called paper kite before, and it has nothing to do with wind chimes. Probably because the pronunciation of bamboo pieces is not crisp, people generally switched to iron pieces later, so there is a general term for iron horses, which is called "like a horse armored for war, with sound." This kind of wind chime made of sheet metal has been the main style of wind chimes since the Tang Dynasty. Wang Song Anshi and Cui Gongdu's eight organ poems: "The curtain rises and falls without wind, who mourns the fine iron floating", "The wind and iron strike hard, the terracotta warriors and horses camp at night", "The piano hangs between the iron eaves, and the breeze will suddenly ring"; Song Zeng's poem: "Brick flowers peep at the sun wheel, algae spin iron", and Wang Shifu's "The West Chamber", the fifth fold: "Unless iron horses gather in front of the eaves", all show the popularity of iron wind chimes. In the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, Ren Jian said in On Zheng that the folk wind chimes of his time were "made of glass or thin magnetic sheets", which shows that the materials used are various. The jingle bells we saw in the market today, although extremely fancy and unique, did not exceed the legacy of ancient wind chimes.