There is also a gilded checkered grass-leaf mirror from the Pre-Han Dynasty, diameter.
This mirror has a round button with a four-leaf pattern button base, surrounded by a large square belt;
The four breast nails are plump and plump, dominating the four corners;
The leaf pattern is large and curled, stretching freely;
The edges of the sixteen inward arcs are continuous and graceful, full of rhythm.
The gold foil applied is astonishing and will last for thousands of years.
The overall pattern is extremely elegant, with clear decoration and excellent casting.
There are many mirrors like this. In the early Western Han Dynasty, there were double chi pattern mirrors, double chi cloud pattern mirrors, and even arc pattern mirrors.
Legend has it that the mirror was made by the Yellow Emperor and the essence of yin and yang. It is stainless for ten thousand years and can communicate with ghosts and gods. The mirror has become a magic weapon that can drive away bad luck.
The characteristics of light reflection of bronze mirrors were further extended, and the mirrors had the historical significance of learning from the past and understanding the present.
Like the Changguifu with curved pattern mirror, this is also a bronze mirror from the Western Han Dynasty.
The bronze mirrors of the Western Han Dynasty added the feature of decorating them with inscriptions.
The inscriptions are mainly auspicious words, blessings and praises.
The combination of these beautiful patterns and inscriptions surrounding the mirror button is really fascinating!
There are also nebula mirrors with curved patterns, Boju mirrors with curved patterns, etc., which are all exquisite bronze mirrors of the Western Han Dynasty.
Especially the mirror with arc pattern of Bo Bureau, among which Bo Bureau is a kind of decoration on the bronze mirror.
Such as L, V, T and other shapes, this kind of decoration was more popular in the Han Dynasty.
There are also gilt mirrors with portraits of the King of Heaven, the Sun, Moon, Gods, Men, and Beasts. After the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mythical beasts, dragons, tigers, chariots and horses with different images became the theme decorations of bronze mirrors.
Most of these patterns use high relief techniques to make the visual effect of the patterns more three-dimensional.
For example, Shi's chariot and horse portrait mirror contains figures from the Eastern Han Dynasty. This allows us modern people to finally see it not only on portrait bricks and portrait stones!
This classic bronze mirror with human figures must belong to the Kuaiji portrait mirror of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Kuaiji was the capital of the Yue Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Later, the bronze mirror produced by Kuaiji was called Kuaiji mirror.
The rise of Kuaiji bronze mirrors in the early and middle Eastern Han Dynasty has its historical reasons.
First of all, starting from the fourth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty (119 BC), a large number of northern people moved southward.
In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, because "the world was newly settled, the roads were not open, and those who fled the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River did not return to the Central Plains, Kuaiji was quite famous for its many scholars."
So much so that "the people live in Yinfu, and the princes, princesses, and their residences face each other."
The growth of population has greatly increased the demand for bronze mirrors.
Secondly, the Kuaiji area is rich in mineral resources.
Volume 11 of "Yue Jueshu" once recorded, "When the red pansy mountain breaks, tin comes out; when the Ruoye stream dries up, copper comes out."
Judging from the survey, there is a Taohong Bingkang copper mine near Pingshui in Shaoxing, a Dajioling lead mine in Xiejiaqiao, Lanting, Shaoxing, a lead mine in Yinshanba, Dongguan, Shangyu, and a copper mine in Tongyan Mountain, Zhuji, all of which were mined in ancient times.
"Jiatai Kuaiji Zhi" also records that in Xishan, fifty miles east of the county, the king of Yue once mined tin here.
Thirdly, the ancient Kuaiji area has had a developed smelting technology tradition since ancient times.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ancient Yue Kingdom was famous for its sword casting, and its bronze weapon smelting technology far surpassed that of the Central Plains.
In summary, from the aspects of demand, raw materials, and technology, the prerequisites for the casting of Kuaiji bronze mirrors are guaranteed.
When people discuss the development of bronze mirror casting, they often refer to the relief portrait mirrors that emerged in the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
There are also mythical beast mirrors, which are regarded as a sign that the development of ancient mirrors in my country has reached a new stage and that Han mirrors have truly entered the characteristics of this era.
Kuaiji in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces in the Eastern Han Dynasty was one of the famous bronze mirror casting centers in the country at that time.
The bronze mirrors in this area mainly include relief portrait mirrors, mythical animal mirrors and dragon and tiger mirrors.
Among them, the majority of portrait mirrors are produced and unearthed, which is also one of its characteristics.
Due to its large mirror shape, rich content and exquisite carving, the portrait has always been valued by Chinese and foreign scholars.
The relief art style of the portrait mirror is completely different.
The pattern layout of the portrait mirror adopts the quartering method, and the main parts outside the button base are divided into four areas.
Each area is separated by breast nails, the pattern is symmetrical, and the expression technique is plane bas-relief using the oblique carving method.
This is a commonly used technique for stone carvings in Eastern Han Dynasty and is quite decorative.
The portrait mirror is the end of the Han Dynasty mirror, but it gives people a strong feeling of "elegance in music", just like the sunset, which is particularly brilliant.
The portrait mirror among the Kuaiji bronze mirrors is unique in the history of the development of bronze mirrors in my country.
Before the creation of the portrait mirror, there were inscriptions such as "There is an immortal on it who does not know how to grow old. He drinks from the jade spring when he is thirsty and eats jujube when he is hungry. He floats around the world and travels all over the world."
However, the clear theme decoration of the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East was first seen in the portrait mirror.
Using a complete historical story as the subject of decoration is also a precedent created by portrait mirrors.
In addition to human figure mirrors, there are many animal pattern mirrors since the Han Dynasty.
For example, there are gold-plated dragon mirrors from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and animal belt mirrors from the Later Han Dynasty carved with animal patterns and edges.
Later Han Dynasty animal pattern edge line carving animal belt mirror diameter.
The mirror is round in shape, with nine small studs on the outside of the round button base, surrounded by alternating floral and leaf patterns, and a broad band of convex string patterns on the outside.
The outer ring area is decorated with seven breast nails with a four-leaf pattern, dividing the main pattern into seven areas.
Each area is decorated with blue dragon, white tiger, red bird, divine bird, black basalt, mythical beast and other patterns. The patterns are high relief and the composition is elegant and gorgeous.
Such classics include the seven-breasted beast with mirror from the Later Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.
The diameter of this mirror is.
It is a round or semi-circular button with eight small nipples on the outside and seven nipples on the main area.
The breast nails are decorated with green dragon, white tiger, red bird, black basalt and other auspicious birds and animals.
There are some mirrors of the same type as this one that have been passed down to the present, such as the green-lined beast-carved mirror with animal inscriptions from the Later Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms.
The diameter of this mirror.
It is round, with a round button and a round button base. The button base is decorated with nine small studs and mosaic patterns alternately surrounding it. The exterior is decorated with a wide convex string pattern all around.
Surrounded by seven inwardly curved base nipples, the main decoration is divided into seven areas.
Each area is decorated with patterns such as green dragon, white tiger, feathered man, sacred deer, basalt, green sheep, and mythical beasts.
The pattern composition is elegant and gorgeous, and the lines are graceful and smooth.
The inner ring of the mirror edge is decorated with a zigzag pattern, and the outer ring is decorated with a deformed four-god pattern.
The most important thing is that the antique bronze mirror in front of Chen Wenzhe is a black antique mirror. It is really not easy to imitate such an exquisite and elegant black antique mirror.
Black-painted antique means that when antique copper is stored in the atmosphere for a long time, an extremely stable protective film will be formed on the surface of the copper.
Mainly basic copper sulfate is olive green, and also produces black copper oxide, black cuprous sulfide, and brown black tin oxide.
As time goes by, the rust layer thickens and the color becomes darker, commonly known as "black paint".
If you play with it for a long time, the surface will be as bright as a mirror, which is commonly known as "passed down from ancient times".
However, electrochemical corrosion also occurs in this type of bronze, so it is "dumb".
If ancient copper has been in a dry environment (in the atmosphere or in the soil) for a long time, it will also produce copper oxide and oxidized gold, which will appear deep black, commonly known as "black paint".