The three bells of LIANG Qi in the collections of Shanghai Museum were unearthed in 1940 along with a large number of bronze ritual vessels with inscriptions in a Western Zhou Dynasty cellar in Renjia Village, Famen Temple Town, Fufeng County,Shaanxi Province."Liang Qi"is the maker of the vessel.The long inscriptions cast on bronze musical instruments such as the bells of LIANG Qi record the appointment of the “shanfu”Liang Qi as the “ruler of the country”by the emperor,and contain rich social connotations,which have a direct historical significance for contemporary people's understanding of the ritual and music system of the Western Zhou Dynasty.In the past,the academic circle regarded the “shanfu”from Han Confucianism and Buddhism as the “chief of food officials”responsible for managing the imperial diets;yet this batch of bronze ritual vessels amounted to more than 140 pieces,and the accompanying inscription of the Xu(盨)of Liang Qi clearly referred to Liang as Bo(jue),indicating the prominent status of Liang Qi.“The major events of the country lie in the ritual of the military and the military.”The ritual of the Shang and Zhou dynasties was at the forefront of military affairs;And the sacrificial cooking used in the festival is in line with the name“Shanfu(chief of food officials)”.The“Shangshu(Book of Documents)”records the deeds of Kui in“Ritual Music”,which precisely confirms the identity of Liang Qi,the“shanfu(ruler of the country)”,as a“state ruler”and“great official”.Such“Shanfu”should ber esponsible for “ritual music”and noble offsprings education,which indicates the position of“high priest”in charge of the court's sacrificial ceremonies-head of music official“Kui”!With the help of the shape and phonetic data of the three bells of Liang,the sound sequence,phonemes,and arrangement of the entire set of Liang bells can be restored,providing another empirical evidence for the “hanging bell”arrangement in the ritual music of the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty.