一切經音義 95.79

English (machine translation) 95.79

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95.79

Large and small war drums (鼙: fanqie 陛迷 [pí]. The Zhouli states: "The drum masters held drums and the bell masters took charge of the drums to perform slow music." Zheng Xuan notes: "In performing slow music, they struck the pí to harmonize it." The Shuowen jiezi says: "A cavalry drum; composed of 鼓 ('drum') with 卑 phonetic." Lexicons also write it as 鞞).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese