Friday, April 27, 2012

Bronze Displays a True Artistic Charm

To get rid of the aristocracy dedicated label began to display a true artistic charm. (b) bronze mirror decorated and pray functionality Chinese bronze mirror, only be retained for thousands of years as the real goods of daily life, able to witness the changes of the vicissitudes of dynastic history the origin of the bronze mirror is filled with water Kam Yung, the transition to bronze mirror Kam Yung, decorated capacity face to face "is its main function, the bronze mirror generated from the beginning due to its special materials and processes, its function is not confined to Kam Yung. the application of a bronze mirror decorated function vector of the earliest unearthed bronze mirror, Qijia culture of the bronze mirror unearthed in 1975 (see Figure 1-002). We can get some knowledge of the painting achievements by means of the patterns on the bronze to some extent.
 The cited in the DU lodged in loose: 'Ancient bronze mirror of civilization ", the seventh national visions of civil collecting culture high-level ( Hubei to help lfi 1) Forum on 2007 Shandong University Master's degree thesis of 8.9 cm in diameter, 0.3 cm thick, with two pear-shaped holes in its edge, grind a groove in the hole, apparently often worn as jewelry in order to formation and has been tested this side of the bronze mirror the proportion of copper and tin l: 0.096 The tin content is very low, difficult to clean Kam people, can be seen, which was the late primitive society bronze the use of mirror is probably more emphasis on its decorative features. This is one significant feature of the bronze in the Warring States.
Unearthed over the years all kinds of bronze mirror, a small bronze mirror (size less than lO cm) bronze mirror, generally are decorative features than the fact, face to face function. wearing styles from the point of view, generally at the waist with a rope perforation Department asked, also hanging in the neck, early prime tread mirror, and later all kinds of auspicious decoration bronze mirror. "Zuo? given to the public six "book" set fruit Kam, "said the Western Jin Dynasty scholar Du Yu Notes: paddle with a mirror for decoration also now the Western Qianghu Utah contingent, ancient heritage service also" this text shows that from the Warring States period to the Western Jin Dynasty. The bronze can be used to enjoy as the painting artworks, such as the ones picturing the wars, hunting, and feast.
 People have been paid great attention to the decorative features of the bronze mirror was common wear mirror decoration customs. more than used for the decoration of the person, bronze mirrors used in the decoration of the building in the Tang Dynasty, this phenomenon is particularly developed typical example is the built in the treasure calendar year (AD 825), clear thinking, Chang'an Temple, historical records of the Tang Jingzong Qing Si temple new temple construction cost of three thousand bronze mirror (or "copper mirror three thousand pounds "), a thin gold and silver one hundred thousand. Today, clear thinking temple ruins in Xi'an, indeed unearthed a lot of bronze mirror pieces and gilt bronze decorative pieces when a large number of display of the Tang Dynasty temples bronze mirror. Besides, animal statues and human bronze cast by copper also turned up, which tied countless with the bronze now.
 both for the support, and decorative bronze mirror decorated building, the Tang Dynasty era of the most outstanding, and the decorative bronze mirror to all kinds of special arts and crafts mirror, then, face to face of the bronze mirror function has completely given way to a decorative function in all kinds of folk customs, there are also many phenomena of glasses decorated the ancient East Asia had prevailed shamanism, shamanism, shamans practices, wearing wear bronze mirror, retaining the first mirror Mazu belief of the South China coast, the ceremony of the care center mirror, retaining the back mirror sect spread in ethnic minority areas is extremely broad and long, there are still a small number of people believe in Shamanism and hold all kinds of ceremony on a regular basis so far in China's northeast. Yet the bronze in the early Warring States is characteristic of natural evolution and times.

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