page_title: Cup of Solid Gold
section_title: Music
hierarchical_section_title: Cup of Solid Gold / Music
caption_attribution_description: English: Sheet music and Gongche notation of Gong Jinou
context_page_description: The "Cup of Solid Gold", adopted by the Qing dynasty on 4 October 1911, was the first official national anthem of China. The title wishes for the stability of the "golden cup," a ritual instrument that symbolized the empire. Six days after the anthem was adopted, however, the Wuchang Uprising took place and quickly led to the fall of the Qing. The "Cup of Solid Gold" was never performed publicly.
context_section_description: The person who was nominally put in charge of the anthem's music was Putong, an imperial relative who was familiar with theatre and Peking opera. Aided by assistants in the Imperial Guard, he composed the music based on the models found in the Complement to the Treatise on Pitch Pipes (Lülü Zhengyi Houbian 律呂正義後編／律吕正义后编; 1746), an imperial compilation that complemented a much shorter 1724 work on ceremonial music commissioned by the Kangxi Emperor.
caption: Government document with Gongche notation
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