The Preliminary Study on the Distribution and Cultural Characteristics of the Sheep Horn-Bell Based on the Perspective of GIS Technology
The sheep horn-bell is a musical instrument with distinct regional characteristics in the bronze culture of southern China and northern Vietnam,but because it is not found in the epigraphy,it has been studied less.Taking the southern region of China and Vietnam as the overall research area,GIS technology was used to analyze the distribution area of the excavated sheep horn-bells,combined with qualitative methods,taking the watershed as the basic unit,extracting relevant geographic information,exploring its temporal and spatial distribution and interpolating prediction,combined with the buried characteristics,further exploring the potential information of the sheep horn-bell.The results show that it is preliminarily believed that the origin of the Puyue ethnic group may have absorbed the ritual music system of the"Qin system and Zhou rituals"in the Central Plains,spread along the Xijiang River Basin,the Yuanjiang-Honghe River Basin and the Xiangjiang River Basin,and integrated with the cultural characteristics of the Yangyue,Xiou,Luoyue and other ethnic groups,which is the product of the continuous integration of the cultures of the Baiyue ethnic groups in the Lingnan region,and has gradually become an important part of the bronze ritual music culture of the ethnic minorities in southern China.