“Banana Forest Listening to Rain” Qin

[“Banana Forest Listening to Rain” Qin]

“Banana Forest Listening to Rain” Qin, Ming Wanli, banana leaf style, 124.6 cm in length, 113.8 cm in hidden space, 16.8 cm in forehead width, 19.2 cm in shoulder width, 14.4 cm in tail width and 5.1 cm in thickness
The zither is carved from tung wood. The whole body is painted with black paint and red, and the hair has snake belly broken lines. Gold badges, sapphires and feet. The bottom is hollow from the outside to the inside. It is made of two pieces of wood, and a leaf stem is made between them, which is hollow. This zither style takes the image of banana leaves, so the whole instrument has no neck, wing, waist and tail. The leaf stem is at the head of the zither, so there is only one guard bar. The upper and lower plates are glued with leaf edges, so there is no obvious side wall. In Zunsheng Bajian, written by Gao Lian of the Ming Dynasty, it is said that the person wishing the sea crane to take the banana leaf as the piano
At the bottom of the piano, the seal script “banana forest listens to the rain” is carved on the top of the dragon pool. The regular script on the right side of the pool:
The court is clear, the wind and the moon are bright
Clear mind, calm mind and open voice
Become a prince
and small print in three words. Chizuo regular script:
Focus on spiritual awareness, and focus on spirit
The sense of harmony and the sound of the emblem are beautiful
Ding Chou’s spring is another topic in Jin Zhai
and the small seal of “Emperor Eleven”. The running script under the pool:
The heaven and earth are full of qi, and the jade is full of sound
Be moral, and neutralize your actions
The “New Autumn of the Second Year of Guangxu” was signed, the “Zuo Zongtang Book” was signed, and the “Qing Gong Tai Bao” was printed. Prince Cheng Aixinjueluo Yongyu, the eleventh son of Emperor Qianlong, and the owner of Yijinzhai, Ding Chou was in the 22nd year of Jiaqing (1817). Zuo Zongtang was a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty. In 1876, the second year of Guangxu. The inscription “Wanli Bingchen in autumn □ made by Emperor Shun of the Tang Dynasty” is inscribed in the abdomen. Wanli Bingchen is the forty-fourth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1616)
This piano was admitted to the Palace Museum in 1963



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