Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Sound Devices (hierarchy name)
5. sound devices (equipment)
6. [sound devices by acoustical characteristics]
7. idiophones
8. struck idiophones
9. directly struck idiophones
10. percussion idiophones
11. percussion idiophones: hollow-bodied
12. [bells and sets of bells]
13. bells (idiophones)

Anotations

Scope note:

Chinese clapperless bells, usually of bronze; includes bells used as percussion instruments in ancient China, such as those famously produced during the late Zhou dynasty (ca. 600-255 BCE). The term also denotes the religious bells used daily in Buddhist temples. Made of clay in Neolithic times, the zhong was crafted in bronze during the Shang dynasty (ca. 1600-1066 BCE). In performance the early zhong was either held by hand or placed on a base with its mouth upward and struck with a mallet.