HISTORY
ANCIENT CHINA
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Question
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To make music for their ancestors
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To create music for weddings
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To ring the bell letting people know it’s lunch time
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To ring to bell to let people know that war has started
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the decades since the modern discipline of archaeology was introduced to China in the 1920s, archaeologists have proven that bells were among the first Chinese bronze objects made, beginning at least by 1600 BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bells were used in ancient Chinese rituals to communicate with ancestral spirits, to sound the retreat in battles and also for entertainment as ensemble instruments in concert with other instruments, singers and dancers. Ancient Chinese bells are not circular but have rather an almond-shaped cross-section.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Bell of King Seongdeok is a large bronze bell, the largest extant bell in Korea. The full Korean name means “Sacred (or Divine) Bell of King Seongdeok the Great.” It was also known as the Emille Bell, after a legend about its casting, and as the Bell of Bongdeoksa Temple, where it was first housed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Made of clay in Neolithic times, the zhong was crafted in bronze during the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1066 bc). In performance the early zhong was either held by hand or placed on a seat with its mouth upward and struck with a mallet.