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Conference Paper: Taotie, Dragon, Phoenix, and Farmer: A Highly Decorated Qin Excavated from Jiuliandun
Title | Taotie, Dragon, Phoenix, and Farmer: A Highly Decorated Qin Excavated from Jiuliandun |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Citation | The 5th Symposium of the Musics of East Asia (MEA) ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) Study Group, Taipei, Taiwan, 25–27 August 2016. In Abstract book, p. 3A How to Cite? |
Abstract | The mythical origins of the Chinese qin have been forged by ancient literature ever since the age of Confucius. Nevertheless, very little is known about the morphology of the ancient qin and its embodied symbolism. This paper, by analyzing a most recently discovered ancient qin found in a fourth century B.C. tomb in Jiuliandun, Zaoyang city, Hubei province, in 2002, will explore the relief carving and lacquered drawings found on the instrument itself and their symbolic significance as a representation of the worldview and philosophical state of mind of the Warring States period. I will suggest that a qin contemporaneous to Confucius and played by him looks distinctly different from the version produced
by the fertile imagination of the medieval Chinese. Instead, it was divided into five registers, and it is this segmented subdivision which defines the ancient qin and differentiates it fundamentally from its classical counterpart. Strikingly, the symbolic depictions in which it was clad represent not only the fertile imagination of the Chu aristocracy, but also include portrayal of the more menial tasks of the ordinary Chu farmer and herdsman as he proceeds through the cycle of the agricultural year, and thus provide the modern scholar with an extraordinarily vivid insight into contemporary Chu life. |
Description | Organized by the Academia Sinica and the Taipei National University of the Arts |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/248351 |
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dc.contributor.author | Yang, Y | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-10-18T08:41:50Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-10-18T08:41:50Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 5th Symposium of the Musics of East Asia (MEA) ICTM (International Council for Traditional Music) Study Group, Taipei, Taiwan, 25–27 August 2016. In Abstract book, p. 3A | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/248351 | - |
dc.description | Organized by the Academia Sinica and the Taipei National University of the Arts | - |
dc.description.abstract | The mythical origins of the Chinese qin have been forged by ancient literature ever since the age of Confucius. Nevertheless, very little is known about the morphology of the ancient qin and its embodied symbolism. This paper, by analyzing a most recently discovered ancient qin found in a fourth century B.C. tomb in Jiuliandun, Zaoyang city, Hubei province, in 2002, will explore the relief carving and lacquered drawings found on the instrument itself and their symbolic significance as a representation of the worldview and philosophical state of mind of the Warring States period. I will suggest that a qin contemporaneous to Confucius and played by him looks distinctly different from the version produced by the fertile imagination of the medieval Chinese. Instead, it was divided into five registers, and it is this segmented subdivision which defines the ancient qin and differentiates it fundamentally from its classical counterpart. Strikingly, the symbolic depictions in which it was clad represent not only the fertile imagination of the Chu aristocracy, but also include portrayal of the more menial tasks of the ordinary Chu farmer and herdsman as he proceeds through the cycle of the agricultural year, and thus provide the modern scholar with an extraordinarily vivid insight into contemporary Chu life. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Fifth International Symposium of the ICTM Study Group for Musics of East Asia | - |
dc.title | Taotie, Dragon, Phoenix, and Farmer: A Highly Decorated Qin Excavated from Jiuliandun | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Yang, Y: yuanzhen@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Yang, Y=rp01559 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 281640 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 3A | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 3A | - |