清乾隆朝新疆玉石磬料考

Journal of Central Conservatory of Music ›› 2026 ›› Issue (3) : 86-97.

Journal of Central Conservatory of Music ›› 2026 ›› Issue (3) : 86-97.

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The First Historical Archives of China holds a vast collection of archival documents on ritual music from the Qing Dynasty. Some of these documents, in both Manchu and Chinese, record that jade-stone chime materials for court ritual music during the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty were sourced from Xinjiang. These records specifically cover mining time and location, the development process, management policies, mining scale, transport routes, and their ritual-music functions. They offer valuable historical materials for broadening the research scope on jade-stone chime material and for understanding the production of ritual musical instruments, the theory and practice of musical tuning systems and the ritual music system during the Qianlong period and throughout the Qing Dynasty. Based on the collation of information regarding the management of jade-stone chime material mining and transportation in Xinjiang, as well as related chime stone making and ritual musical performances from Manchu and Chinese archives and historical materials from the Qing Dynasty, this article explores the Qing Dynasty's goal of inheriting traditional culture, promoting the construction of a national culture that emphasizes rituals and music, and realizing the historical vision of multi-ethnic integration in the joint creation of rituals and music.

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Qing archives / Xinjiang jade stone / Qing court jade chime stone

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