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Shi Jian Qiao Bing(to pound ice by a stream flowing out of rocks) Qin

Unknown618/907

Sichuan Museum

Sichuan Museum
Chengdu, China

This is a Shennong (Patron of Agriculture)-style Qin with a body covered with snake belly crack veins and a few plum blossom circle veins. The top of the Qin is slightly bowed; the outside is inlaid with thirteen round shells; the top is installed with seven strings (not the original ones); the bottom has two rectangular sound grooves (The bigger on in the middle is ealled "Longchi (dragon pool)", and the smaller one at the tail is called "Fengzhao (phoenix pool)". The dragon and phoenix hereare the symbol of the sky and the earth and everything.); the bottom is engraved with four cursive characters Shi Jian Qiao Bing"; the lower abdomen of the Longchi is engraved with a seal with seal characters "Yu Quan".

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  • Title: Shi Jian Qiao Bing(to pound ice by a stream flowing out of rocks) Qin
  • Creator: Unknown
  • Date Created: 618/907
  • Location: Collected by Sichuan Museum
  • Width: 17.5cm
  • Length: 122.7cm
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