Friday, April 27, 2012

Yuan Dynasty and the bronze

The Jin Dynasty and Southern Song regime confrontation in the production of bronze mirrors have sprung up everywhere, although the works of many of Tang mirror, but there are also innovative content, formed its own unique characteristics. The bronze during this period is characterized by various shapes and involve a lot of categories like the decorative art and handicraft. Bronze mirror of the epidemic can be divided into nine categories: Pisces mirror, dragon mirror, pairs of goggles, auspicious mirror, daisy mirror, Dading reign money lines mirror the immortal character story mirror, sea ship mirror, plain mirror. Increasingly decline (Yuan Ming and Qing Dynasties) Yuan Dynasty founding a very short time, although since the late 13th century social and economic recovery, the production of fine gold and silver workers also have a higher level of technology has waned, but the casting of the bronze mirror casting style follow Song mirror style, subject matter in addition to the part of the plane, a large number of plain cast of characters, such as "long life and prosperity".
After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the emergence and popularity of glass, bronze mirror has lost its practical value, generally the same thing in evil, has gradually lost its artistic value. To the Qing Dynasty bronze mirror casting industry has been declining, the bronze mirror inscriptions of this period is more than "Feast with Takako auspicious terms, bronze mirror as married women with the texture of raw materials is also very rough. The looking at the Development of Chinese ancient bronze mirror, we can find various historical periods of the bronze mirror design has a distinctive characteristic of the times. The application of patterns on the bronze grew up a number of decorative techniques with regularity.  Through the side surface of the beautiful bronze mirror, not only be able to understand the evolution of the situation of China's feudal society, better able to appreciate from the high artistic standard of the Chinese bronzes, and in-depth understanding of each era craftsmen design psychology.
Chinese ancient bronze mirror function and what they mean Chinese ancient bronze mirror from the beginning of the birth, with a variety of functions, the use of objects of the gaze, ritual ceremonies, wearing decorations, ritual the instruments used, and so on ...... never a bronze can have both a continuation of a thousand years, so many features. Long course of history, thousands of years ago, the ancients did not mirror, the only Linshuei photos, to understand their own image in the water. To the Spring and Autumn Period, beginning with a special bronze water containers and face to face, called "Kam", after a long period of time, the bronze mirror is also known as copper Kam. Kam social life in ancient China occupies a very important position, or even rise to the height of the theory, "New Book of Tang? The utilization of calligraphy primarily finds expression in the inscriptions on the bronze. Weizheng Biography" records that Emperor Li Shimin had sighed: "copper as a warning, may be dressed; the ancient lesson from this, we can see the rise and fall; people Kam, advantages and disadvantages.
The truth, can be seen, the emotions of the ancient bronze mirror has not only limited to utility, also added more cultural connotation and function. During this period, the bronze was more from the feudal lords.  Therefore, research and bronze mirror represented by the functional and what it stands to be able to more in-depth understanding of the bronze mirrors of design thinking and cultural connotations. The cited in the tube-dimensional good: 'Chinese bronze mirror History, February 2006 first edition, 301. Journal of Shandong University (a) the practical function of the bronze mirror ¨ mirror from drowning? Our small ugly the Yang accounted for on behalf of the mirror and into human society drum waist of enough to set time, intentionally or the product of unintentional Yiu on piles first cattle pull "the ancient mirror study Zonglun" in Ge P, old guitar-generation system mirror the made by the origin and development of process arrangement is correct and load sets of true of History of the fact that the words.

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