粗陋的珍宝——乐器明器及其拼合现象研究

Rough Treasures--Study on Musical Instrument as Burial Object and Related Assembling Phenomenon

文章以文献学、考古学中“明器”的定义为出发点,结合《中国音乐文物大系》周代已确定的乐器明器,深入探究乐器明器的音乐学研究范畴,对乐器明器器物形制进行具象分析,发现乐器明器的形制经历了有实缺质—有形失实—失实失形三个历时性阶段的变迁。最后通过乐器明器与实用器结合的拼合现象,再议春秋战国时期乐悬扩充的缘由与礼乐转化的实质,体现了礼乐文化中乐器明器的重要地位与意义。

Based on the definition of“burial objects”in philology and archeology,the article probes into the musicological research category of burial objects with reference to the burial objects that have been determined in Chinese Musical Cultural Relic in the Zhou Dynasty.Upon figurative analysis of the buried instruments and its related musicology study,this article reveals the formality of buried instruments,the shape and structure of which have gone through three diachronic stages,the lack of physical quality,tangibility with quality loss,and the loss of both quality and shape.Finally,by studying the phenomenon of assembling buried instruments and utility tool,the author further discusses the essence of the transformation of rites and music as well as the cause of the expansion of Yuexuan during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States Period,addressing the importance of buried instruments in rites and music culture.