皖江地区出土的青铜乐钟初探

Preliminary Exploration of Musical Bronze Bells in Wanjiang Area

青铜乐钟在先秦时期的礼乐制度中占有重要地位。皖江地区作为我国重要的铜采冶区域,出土了数量较多的先秦时期的青铜乐钟。通过较为系统地梳理区域内出土的青铜乐钟的种类、数量、形制及时空特征,并对代表性器物进行分析可以发现,皖江地区出土的青铜乐钟具有年代久远、种类丰富、器型优美、文化内涵深厚等特征,这与皖江地区铜采冶的历史地位以及本地区先秦时期文化的进步与发展是密切相关的,出土的青铜乐钟也是皖江文化在先秦时期的代表性器物之一。

The musical bronze bells played an important role in the system of rites and music during the pre-Qin period.As a major copper mining area in China,a large quantity of musical bronze bells has been unearthed in the Wanjiang area,the region of the Yangtze River in Anhui Province.Based on a systematic presentation of the types,quantities,shapes and special characteristics of these unearthed bells and an analysis of representative ones,this paper comes to conclusion that the bronze musical bells unearthed in the Wanjiang area are of long history,rich variety,beautiful shape and profound cultural connotations,which is closely related to the historical status of this region in copper mining and its cultural progress and development in pre-Qin period,so that the bronze musical bells unearthed in the Wanjiang area can also be considered one of the representative artifacts of the culture of Wanjiang area in pre-Qin period.