According to The History of Chinese Music by Li Chunyi, "Similar to a bell of the Shang Dynasty, it is rectangular in shape, hollow and fixed with a solid handle." "It might have certain ...

Each bell could produce two different notes when ... During the Ming and Qing dynasties, ancient Chinese bells were divided into musical bells, Buddhist bells, Taoist bells, imperial court bells ...

So you could have, as it were, a hundredweight bell, and so on. So there is a sense in which a set of bells in ancient China could also serve as a sort of local weights and measures office ...

Thousands of years ago, Chinese musicians worked with foundry technicians to cast matched sets of bronze ... Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Bell (yong zhong) Freer Gallery of Art ...

So you could have, as it were, a hundredweight bell, and so on. So there is a sense in which a set of bells in ancient China could also serve as a sort of local weights and measures office ...