Dominant Motif of the bronze

A Brief Discussion popular evolution of the bronze mirror of each period. Spring and Autumn Period bronze mirror popular evolution of: Spring and Autumn and Warring States bronze mirror technology for its colorful decoration, exquisite dexterity the form of fine caster, a Chinese bronze mirror in the history of the first peak. It can be termed as the treasure of the bronze of Wu and designated as a national collection. Spring and Autumn in the late early Warring States period. Prime mirror class-based, popular vegan mirror and a single ring, double ring convex Xianwen mirror. Style carvings in the class of multi-button mirror and a special craft mirror also became popular, In addition, the pure pattern mirror, feathery pattern to pattern leaf pattern mirrors and decorations, Mountain word tubby hill line mirror.
The Warring States Period, a wide range of varied ornamentation, there has been Yunlei Wen mosaic mirror, and the eight-leaf pattern mirror. Four Hills pattern mirrors the auxiliary decoration harassment, Mountain word changed the thin, and the emergence of the five mountain patterns mirror the Six Mountains pattern mirror, a new emergence of folding Ling pattern mirror class Pan Chi pattern mirrors the class, even arc lines mirror class and special process painted mirror, mirror with gold and silver mirror. Wild animal in the animal pattern in the mirror, the taotie mirror appeared in large numbers. bronze has a long history in China.
 The late Warring States period, four leaf patterns mirror Pan Chi Chi Pan diamond-shaped mirror and a three-tier pattern Yunlei Wen to Pan Chi Bronze Mirror with Arc. Pan Chi pattern mirrors the class most of the land lines blurred. Animal class in the mirror, dragon mirror, phoenix mirror in the mirror of the Hill herringbone three mountain pattern mirror, the class of prime mirror a multi-ring Xianwen prime mirror and wide Xianwen prime mirror, the mirror body to increase the special process. The bronze made great conurbations to the splendid ancient civilization.  The mirror is more mature. The use of the bronze mirror of the display of archaeological materials in recent years, the three-stringed lute-button prime mirror, Xianwen mirror, feather pattern to four-leaf pattern mirror Yunlei Wen four-leaf pattern, mirror, folding Linghua Phoenix Bird microscopy followed should always to the Qin and Han dynasties, the follow nature.
 The Western Han Dynasty bronze mirror has gone through three stages: the early Western Han bronze mirror of the Warring States period, continue to be popular. Such as four mountain Mirror, Pan Chi pattern mirror, etc., and have the style of the Chu-style mirror. But similar bronze mirror compared with similar mirror in the Warring States Period, rough, especially to grain cast do not quite finishing, with arc design is not very regular. The impressive Si Mu Wu Ding and the exquisite Four Sheep Square Zun are the great masterpieces of bronze. Before and after the rule of the Han Emperor Wu Han dynasty political and economic prosperity and development of the bronze mirror also has new features: first, the basic point of a quarter of the theme of ornamentation layout with four milk. Second, to highlight the main lines, ground lines gradually disappear. Third, theme decoration is simple, simple structure pattern.
 Fourth, the inscriptions on the mirror a large number of inscriptions have gradually become an important part of the decoration theme of the mirror back. Fifth, the the semicircle ball button gradually dominant motif of the mirror button layout for the center surround. Sixth, the mirror edge is the main hormone wide margin. Only the Chinese have given the bronze essential social significance, profound spiritual meaning. The late Western Han Dynasty, the theme of the mirror back ornament appeared the man of God, animal patterns, rules, patterns and other new forms. The four gods, animals, birds, decoration shape tend to visualize the trend of realistic style, colorful inscriptions, flexible arrangement, and began dating inscriptions mirror. The main decoration is beautiful, and began to focus on the edge of the bronze mirror decoration, mostly incomplete two-wire folded corrugated, changing the form of pre-edge of how wide prime.