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Qin Tuning Pegs 琴軫 1

These pegs are often made of a valuable material such as jade. Further details to be added. Meanwhile, see the footnote below.

Note in particular the quote from biography of the Maiden of Agu from the Lienü Zhuan: it concerns a qin with no pegs (see Zigong).

 

 

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1 The dictionary references for 軫 zhen are as follows:

39132.0/4 pegs for tuning a qin; no mention of other instruments. References:

  1. 《正字通》﹕軫，琴下轉絃者，因謂之軫。 Zheng Zi Tong is Ming dynasty
  2. 《魏書，樂志》﹕以軫調琴。 (6th c. CE)
  3. 李白，《詩》﹕拂軫弄瑤琴。 Compare the Li Bai quote below.

9/1289: pegs for tuning a string instrument. First two references are to qin:

  1. 劉向，《列女傳，阿谷處女》﹕嚮者聞子之音，穆如清風，不拂不寤，弘復我心，有琴無軫，願借子調其音。
    Only Han dynasty reference given here:     Liu Xiang's Lienü Zhuan biography of The Maiden of Agu (the linked illustration shows her with Zigong)
  2. 李白，《北山獨酌寄韋六》詩﹕“坐月觀寶書，拂霜弄瑤軫。”王琦主﹕“琴下緊絃之柱，謂之軫。”
    Compare the Li Bai quote above.

   The references for 琴軫 qin zhen are:

21570.59: pegs below the qin for turning the strings.

    白居易《江亭玩春詩》﹕水蒲漸展書帶葉，山榴半含琴軫房。
    Bai Juyi, Spring relaxation in a Riverside Pavilion.

4/587: small pegs on a qin for tuning the strings.

    Only reference for this meaning is Qing dynasty. A second meaning given is 比喻石榴子: an allusion to pomegranate seeds. It then gives the above quote from Bai Juyi as its example!
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