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The Year of the Ox looks for the "Cow". Speaking of cattle, since ancient times, people will think of the image of its industrious farming. In the Zhejiang Museum, there are some "cattle cultural relics" with The humanistic characteristics of Jiangnan. Among them is a combination of "table lamp" and "flashlight" made by the ancients of the Eastern Jin Dynasty more than 1600 years ago according to the appearance of cattle.
This cute calf, with its hooves inserted at the waist and standing like a human, is a national first-class cultural relic, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Ou kiln celadon dotted ox-shaped lamp. Just over 1600 years ago, the ancients of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, located in today's Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, used it as a "table lamp" and a "flashlight".
Du Hao, librarian of the Ceramics Department of Zhejiang Provincial Museum: This lamp is about 13 centimeters high, which is relatively small and exquisite. You can see that the lower part of the lamp is a grand plate, which can be used to put lamp oil, and the middle one is a lamp post, which is made into the shape of a cow. There is a square hole at both ends of the lamppost, this square hole is used to insert the wick, and then look at its handle, whether it is like a cow's tail, it is an arc. The handles are connected to the tray and the lamppost. This handle can be used either on the table or in the hand, which can be described as a multi-purpose tool, which is very convenient.
Anthropomorphizing cattle and giving them a confident look, which was very rare during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This celadon lamp specially customized by the ancient literati also reflects the romantic ideas of the literati inkers in the Jiangnan region at that time.
Literati lit lamps to paint, and one spring more than three hundred years ago, the Qing Dynasty painter Wei Xiang used the method of brush strokes to depict this "Ten Bull Diagram" on silk cloth. In the spring, the buffalo are in groups of three or two, grazing on the shore, drinking water and frolicking, and walking with cattle herders, a leisurely and harmonious pastoral picture.
Xie Jialing, librarian of the Calligraphy and Painting Department of Zhejiang Provincial Museum: At that time, it attached great importance to farming, respected agricultural affairs, and took agriculture as the ideological spirit. Farming culture is the foundation of our traditional Chinese culture, and cattle are a role that can never be missing in farming culture, diligent and sincere, and very strong in physique, and very gentle in nature, so in our human production and life, the relationship with us is very close.
The literati in Jiangnan not only painted with cattle, but also carved cattle on stone stones, and this piece of Ming Liu Ru is a white end of the scriptures written by Liu Ruyi from the famous female poet Liu Ru in the Ming and Qing dynasties. This piece of white-ended stone is as bright as jade, and between the Yanchi and The Yantang is a reclining yellow cow.
Fan Peiling, director of the Craft Department of zhejiang provincial museum: This cow is not only realistic, it is beautified, and I see that the cow is not only very fat but also has several ribs painted. This cow decoration is in this place, because this place is not practical, but it is also the most central visual position of the brick platform, so it is a very finishing touch to put it there.
(Editing by Li Mingyi)