Hammering seems to be a very simple process, isn't it just smashing with a hammer?
However, this is the foundation of gold and silver craftsmanship. After gold and silver are refined by the hammering method, they show their unique charm.
In ancient times, women often bought themselves various kinds of jewelry for the sake of beauty.
Whether worn on the head or on the hand, it has its own unique beauty.
Of course, in order to show their nobility, many women choose gold and silver products, which are not only durable, but also acquire a different kind of beauty over time.
In the jewelry craftsmanship they wear, a technique is often used, and that is hammering.
Hammering is one of the main processes in traditional gold and silver processing. The main production process is to apply pressure to the blank to deform it into the desired shape.
A series of beating and tapping movements are repeated until the shape and decoration of the vessel are formed.
It makes the metal get rid of the cold appearance and adds humanistic warmth.
Among the many foreign techniques for jewelry making, the hammering technique has the greatest impact on the processing of gold and silver jewelry in my country.
First, the gold and silver before smelting and purification are cooled;
Among the unearthed gold and silver men's jewelry from the Tang Dynasty, very few were hammer-shaped, which shows how little influence it had.
Because gold and silver tools have good ductility, hammering them into shape can better reflect the beauty of gold and silver products, so this technology has been widely used.
However, every craft is often remembered by people. It is the basis of all carvings and paintings. Without it, all craftsmanship will be as ethereal and dependent as the moon in the water.
In fact, the hammer pattern originated from the processing of gold, silver and bronze in our country.
So what kind of top technology is it that makes it extraordinary?
The markings all over its body are small and large, and are in regular circles. They were specially hammered with tools before the whole body was cast. For example, the representative work of national treasures with hand-hammered patterns, the Western Han Dynasty Golden Beast weighing 9100 grams.
It is definitely the pinnacle of it.
For example, the craftsmanship in the Tang Dynasty reached a peak, and the most familiar thing among people is probably the golden bowl.
Hit it with a hammer until it stretches and spreads to form a gold sheet of a certain thickness;
Even simple utensils can also be made using the hammering method.
A circle of golden silk knots separates the inside, and seven golden luan birds are flying in the inner circle, holding golden ribbons in their mouths, flowing freely.
Nowadays, you specially hammer gold and silver ingots into various shapes, which is called hammering, also known as hammering or hammering.
However, the process of getting it into the required square shape was long and tedious.
The kind of concentration in that hammering and blowing can be experienced by others.
It is precisely because of this that so many exquisite handicrafts have been created among many things.
When hammering out the shape or pattern of an object, it is also necessary to line it with a soft base mold that has been knocked out in advance, so that the gold and silver pieces can be formed more slowly during hammering. This is called "die punching".
Therefore, it is very popular in the production of soft and precious gold and silver.
In 1970, a gilt parrot-pattern handle lid jar was unearthed from a cellar in Hejia Village, the southern suburb of Chang'an, Western Shaanxi Province.
But few things are like that. The more complicated the process, the easier it is in practice.
Because it involves hammer pattern, also called hammer pattern, it is a decorative technique between texture and pattern.
Through the dignified and gorgeous interior, you can get a glimpse of several techniques such as gilding, engraving, and welding in the Tang Dynasty.
The gold and silver wares of the Tang Dynasty are rich in variety, and their shapes and patterns are graceful and rarely change, allowing people to look at them and read them all, but they still have a consistent character.
The white lacquer ground sets off the golden Luan bird, the color contrast is sharp, and it has not peeled off to this day, which shows that the Tang Dynasty's lacquer painting and gold and silver beating craftsmanship were outstanding.
This cannot be seen from the golden beast of the Western Han Dynasty, which is a national treasure and a representative work of hammer pattern craftsmanship.
In fact, the hammering process is complicated.
Liu An's "Huainanzi·Shuo Shan Xun" of the Western Han Dynasty does not have the sentence "描挻(shn) the soil but makes it thicker", and 揲 is annotated as "thin metal sheet".
The beauty of national treasures travels through the past and present, and the instruments used to carry the road are magnificent.
That piece of jade from the Western Han Dynasty cannot smash the pride of the devil to the ground.
But when it comes to hammer grain, everyone subconsciously knows that it is a common texture under neon metal objects.
That is beating (yè). From now on, we can no longer see what "golden carved double phoenix back" is, it is a kind of magnificence that will never fade.
The ancients used hammering technology to produce a few men's jewelry, such as earrings, armbands, bracelets, etc.
Its diameter is about 22 centimeters, slightly larger than the Tang Dynasty gold and silver flat-backed square mirror in the Neon Zhengcang Yuan collection.
The jar body and the bottom ring of the buckled bowl are connected by welding. There are no parrot patterns on the whole body, and there are gilt decorations of broken branches and flowers. The handle beam cannot rotate freely, which combines beauty and practicality.
Among them, his most classic one should be the Tang Dynasty Qiluan with a ribbon, gold and silver, which was unearthed in Changlepo Village in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an, Western Shaanxi.
Items made using the hammering method consume more materials than casting. They also require the division of labor and cooperation of fewer people and can be operated independently.
It is also the product of the perfect combination of ancient metal casting technology and gold hammering technology.
And combined with that kind of craftsmanship, or the peak application of that kind of craftsmanship, your country has also emerged one after another in ancient times.
Then you need to hammer out the basic shape of the object in the first step, and then hammer out the double-layered lotus petal shape from the inside out.
There were already many gold ornaments of that kind in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, including the gold-covered bronze tiger unearthed from the Fuhao tomb in Yinxu, Anyang, Nanhe, the Shang Dynasty sun bird gold ornament unearthed from the Jinsha site in Sichuan, and the Sichuan-Han Eight-star pile.
Gold-covered bronze statues from the Shang Dynasty, gold-faced fish-shaped decorations, etc. were unearthed from the site.
Behind every rare cultural relic is the ingenuity and wisdom of the ancients, engraved with the cultural genes of the Chinese nation, and witness to the exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and Chinese civilizations.
The lotus petals are made to protrude from the inner wall of the bowl to the inner wall, forming a concave and convex effect, and then patterns are carved under the outline of the convex lotus petals.
And everyone thinks that hammer pattern is one of the traditional handicrafts that is unique to neon. Is that true? In fact, it is.
Later, with the deepening of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries during the Tang Dynasty, merchants and craftsmen from West Asia came to China one after another. While they brought a large number of items, they also brought a lot of gold and silverware manufacturing techniques.
There are eight anemone flowers in full bloom in the round mirror button, surrounded by anemone leaves.
For example, a bottle with a big mouth and a small belly is especially divided into lower and upper parts for hammering. It can also be divided into several parts for hammering. Finally, the parts are welded together and polished rough.
However, the "feather withering" process is used on the wings of the Luan bird, which makes the feathers appear turbid and more three-dimensional and vivid.
Hammering is one of the commonly used methods in the molding process of gold and silverware, but it is also a hard work and requires patience.
It is one of the national treasures of Jinling Museum and the heaviest gold artifact discovered by archeology in your country.
描, to beat into thin slices.
The hammering method is also commonly used in the production of gold and silver ornaments, such as a gold bowl decorated with lotus petals.
To beat means to beat.
The word "beating" sounds difficult to understand, but when translated into folk colloquial language, it means "beating".
Hammer craftsmanship first appeared in West Asia more than 2000 BC. At that time, people in West Asia had already used it in the production of gold and silverware.