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Xiaoluo (小锣) – a small flat gong whose pitch rises when struck with the side of a flat wooden stick; Yueluo (月锣) – small pitched gong held by a string in the palm of the hand and struck with a small stick; used in Chaozhou music; Jingluo (镜锣) – a small flat gong used in the traditional music of Fujian
The Fujita Ram Gong (Chinese: 觥; pinyin: gōng; Wade–Giles: kung 1) is a Shang dynasty Chinese ritual bronze vessel, a guang, in the shape of a ram that dates to the later part of the dynasty in 13th-11th century B.C. [1] Considered significant for its realistic shape and style, it is among 13 known Chinese bronze vessels made in animal-form.
Woman playing Shímiàn luó [十面锣, 十面鑼], from Chinese watercolours in the 1800s (Qing Dynasty). The yunluo is a set of usually ten small tuned gongs mounted in a wooden frame, with each gong being about 9-12 cm in diameter, and the height of the frame being about 52 cm.
By far the most familiar to most Westerners is the chau gong or bullseye gong. Large chau gongs, called tam-tams [7] have become part of the symphony orchestra. Sometimes a chau gong is referred to as a Chinese gong, but in fact, it is only one of many types of suspended gongs that are associated with China. A chau gong is made of copper-based ...
Standing bells are known by a wide variety of terms in English, and are sometimes referred to as bowls, basins, cups or gongs. Specific terms include resting bell , [ 1 ] prayer bowl , [ 2 ] Buddha bowl , [ 3 ] Himalayan bowl , [ 4 ] Tibetan bell , [ 4 ] rin gong , [ 2 ] bowl gong [ 3 ] and cup gong . [ 2 ]
Sichuan naonian luogu (四川闹年锣鼓) - gong and drum music performed for the celebration of the Chinese New Year in Sichuan Province; Sunan shifan luogu (苏南十番锣鼓, see shifan luogu; Tonggu ensemble (铜鼓) - bronze drum ensemble (cf. Dong Son drums) Zhedong luogu (浙东锣鼓) - gong and drum music of eastern Zhejiang Province
Dougong inside the East Hall timber hall of Foguang Temple, built in 857 during the Tang dynasty Dougong brackets on an Eastern Han (25–220 CE) era architectural model of a watchtower A stone-carved relief above a cave entrance of the Yungang Grottoes (Shanxi province) showing an imitation of dougong brackets, Northern Wei dynasty (386–535 CE) Stone pillars made in imitation of wooden ...
A gong chime is a generic term for a set of small, high-pitched bossed pot gongs. The gongs are ordinarily placed in order of pitch, with the boss upward on cords held in a low wooden frame. The frames can be rectangular or circular (the latter are sometimes called "gong circles"), and may have one or two rows of gongs.