Ancient chinese bronze sculpture mirror is constantly playing with their daily lives exposed jewelry

Qin Jin

What makes the industrial age was driven out of the glass mirror dancer sculpture mirror on the market for centuries, but also a dazzling glow of youth? Is the combination of real life, people's thinking, culture, art, or history of feelings and wealth returns -

Recently, the China Guardian (microblogging) in the spring. "Elusive - Meng Xuan Zang Mirror" special auction of bronze mirrors, the "out of more than one month" to run the beast mirror after several rounds of bidding to 8.97 million yuan turnover, creating bronze mirrors auction new world record.

The value of bronze mirrors found not only bronze art mirror collectors smile, but also to the majority of the art collection of big investors in the bronze mirror appreciation of space imagination.

Bronze mirror is a mirror of the history of China

Bronze mirror, also known as angel statues mirrors, is a small bronze in the category. Since when China and the use of casting bronze mirror it? This is not a simple historical research. As some of the inventions are attributed to the Yellow Emperor as the manufacture of ancient bronze mirrors and will return began with the Yellow Emperor: "God in the mirror as a result of the cast, of fifteen surface mirror Hokyo God also." 1970s Gansu has Qijia tombs unearthed two Miantong Jing, dating back some 4,000 years, should be the early form of bronze figurines mirrors.

In ancient times, bronze mirrors is a token of love, Yushan County, Jiangxi tomb was unearthed in a Tang Dynasty, a half-Miantong Jing. Originally, in ancient times if the first death of a husband and wife, they will usually use the bronze mirror in half, with the tombs buried in the first half, the other half followed the death of the person buried, similar to the afterlife can "reunion"; bronze mirror is round , the symbol of a happy, good fortune, married the daughter of the mother to wear a antique bronze mirror, is pray for her happy marriage and a happy life; Taoism believes that bronze mirrors to ward off evil, so hanging on the door; ancient bureaucratic hang "Mingjinggaoxuan" plaque, to show justice; China's first chronological History - "Mirror" to history as a mirror, "Mirror" in ancient times is the mirror.

Five thousand years of Chinese civilization, to say the ancient Chinese art of the most glorious period (mid-to late Qing dynasty commercial) about 3,000 years, and the art of Chinese bronze mirrors dominating peak times on a thousand years. First stage: from about 500 BC to 206 BC, the late Spring and Autumn Warring States Period which lasted nearly three hundred years. The second stage: the Western Han Dynasty 206 BC to AD 220 years of Eastern Han Dynasty only lasted four hundred years. The third stage: about 600 AD to 907 years of Sui and Tang dynasties, is three hundred years.

In the bronze gradually replaced by iron, began to decline when the bronze mirror did not decline along with the bronze but a boom in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Bronze mirrors can be said to be a continuation of bronze culture, but it is the bronze culture and a separate faction, after the Warring States, Han, Tang, Ming and Qing, until the birth of the modern glass mirror stage of history.

Ancient bronze mirror reflects the aesthetic

Ancient chinese bronze sculpture mirror is constantly playing with their daily lives exposed jewelry. This is precisely why every Miantong Jing, craftsmen are the best idea to think with, to design, decoration and some machines than it is now even more beautiful engraving pictures and detailed, unique artistic value.

The decoration process, reflecting both the subject content of bronze mirrors, bronze mirror is the most valuable part of the aesthetic. It encompasses a variety of geometric, animal, animal fairy, folk tales, life phenomena, pray for blessings, and some fine paintings can be comparable to, or reflects the variety of social content. Decoration, each with characteristics of the times: the Shang period multi-vein pattern, parallel-lined, multi-turn convex Xianwen, etc.; the Western Zhou Dynasty more heavy ring pattern, patterns and other birds; Spring and Autumn Period more than words with a grain mountain, Phoenix Bird, Pan Chi lines, etc.; continue to be used in addition to the Warring States Period Han mirror decoration, the most popular decoration patterns are rules (Bo Bureau pattern), grass pattern, pattern nebulae, and even inscriptions arc pattern, bat-shaped arc pattern, etc. even Shidi; Sanguoliangjin Northern and Southern Dynasties the multi-purpose animal pattern, four-leaf pattern deformation, auspicious patterns, etc.; Sui and Tang dynasties multi auspicious patterns, four patterns of God, bird patterns, Po-phase pattern, Marine Mammals grape pattern, patterns, etc. as the Zodiac.