The bronze mirror was the ancient times person according to the facialfeatures appliance, when the Warring States was in vogue day afterday. Its characteristic is: Physique dexterous, decorative design in autensil fine, line smooth, are many is the circular. Art expressionmeans are diverse, one kind uses the relief technique, decorates onekind of pattern in the mirror back, like Yuzhuang article, multangulargrain and so on; Another kind uses two processing, adds the subjectdecorative design in a utensil again in the fine place grain, likeShan Ziwen and and so on.Our country unearthed Warring States bronze mirror most regions, arethe Hunan Changsha and area the Anhui Showhsien, at that time was theChu place, therefore called " Chu Shijing ". Next like Sichuan , Shaanxi , Shanxi , Hebei and even are situated at northeast border region placessuch as Jilin , all has the Warring States bronze mirror to beunearthed. Obviously, Warring States time bronze mirror casting andthe use has been very common.
In bronze mirror, some one kind of unusual bronze mirror - lens. Thismirror invention to the Western Han Dynasty time, the contour and theordinary mirror is same, but works as light according to when mirrorsurface, on the mirror surface relative wall, can reflect the mirrorback pattern the image, the ancient person is "the imaginary mirror".Song Dynasty Shen Kuo "Dream Brook Converses in writing", Qing DynastyZheng Fuguang "Mirror Mirror □ f Is crazy" and so on all to have therecord and the research. The modern research indicated that, thebronze mirror is diaphanous is bronze mirror cooling and theprocessing grinds the internal stress which in the mirror surfaceprocess, produces to be the result of. Two Chinese times bronze mirrordesign model rich, the manufacture is exquisite, has the very highartistry and the decoration. But also has the different characteristicin the different time. Western Han Dynasty great-great grandfather toarticle, before Jing Di's, the society is in the economicrehabilitation period, casts the mirror craft development not to bebig, still continued to use the Warring States bronze mirror thestyle, the mirror surface slightly, the mirror wall was frail, stringgrain young Niu, the decorative design in a utensil saw the distortionto coil 螭 the grain and to coil 虺 the grain. Is the Chinese mirrorNiu place is different which with the Warring States bronze mirroroften has an engraved inscription week. "Governing of the articlescenery" after, specially after Wu Di, the economy had the large scaledevelopment, by now the bronze mirror casting only then appeared thehigh tide, the product quality enhanced, the quantity also increased.Its mirror surface gradually big, mirror wall slightly thick, Niu isthe semicircle, the pillar thick is smooth. The pattern decoration thepainting on silk, the mural, the carved stone and so on the directinfluence, Warring States bronze mirror that kind of abstractdecorative design in a utensil no longer has existed at that time,generation but was the novel leaves of grass grain, the nebula grainand so on. Often by drawing, shuanggouYangxian the performance techniqueappears in the mirror back, and revolves mirror Niu to compose theconcentric circle the multilayered continual design, and with divides into the grain type four equal parts, theconstitution both the symmetry and the continual circular decorativepattern. Looked from the theme that, tended to practicalizes, contentthe emergence which spread at that time with the society in rises theimmortal, the auspicious omen exorcises evil spirits the view totally. This time, but also appeared the strip belt type engravedinscription, all is the blessing -like propitious rhyme language.After Wangmang establishes the new dynasty, the bronze mirror styleand the Western Han Dynasty inherit, but still had the development.Decorative design in a utensil content richer, expression means beforeexquisite is neater than, the composition pattern uses the young nailto be separated the equal parts and surrounds the multi-level grainbelt by the concentric circle form, quite rich three-dimensional leveland rhythm feeling. the decoration also complicated. This timethe popular one kind of gorgeous well-mannered grain mirror, duringthe well-mannered grain, often is alternating birds and beasts designand so on the black dragon, white tiger, rosefinch, Xuanwu. |
