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Mirror
Decal yellow
The heart of beauty is shared by everyone. As early as thousands of years ago, the ancients already paid great attention to their own grooming, do not believe? Then follow Bao Bojun to find out.
"Taking copper as a mirror" can be a proper dress, and throughout the ages, people must use mirrors when tidying up their appearance. And the "Jian" here is the earliest prototype of the bronze mirror.
The way to write "Jian" in the Golden Text
Primitive social period people usually lie on the river through the water to see their reflections, the earliest face is the use of Jiansheng water to illuminate the face, in the oracle bones, gold text is often written as "prison" character, depicting the scene of people lying on the edge of the basin, with the level of smelting metal improved, in the Bronze Age copper mirror was produced.
Do you know where the world's earliest mirror is?
About 8,000 years ago, the Anatolians, now the Turks, made the world's first mirrors from polished obsidian.
The picture shows obsidian rough
Between 4000 BC and 3000 BC, mirrors made of polished copper appeared in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) and Egypt. About 1,000 years later, people in Central and South America began to make mirrors from polished stone. At the same time, China and India also began to make mirrors from bronze.
The earliest bronze mirror in China
Heptagonal mirror
At present, the earliest bronze mirror found in China is the earth heptagonal mirror from the village of Gamatai in Guinan County, Qinghai in 1976, which is a bronze mirror of the Qijia culture in the northwest region 4,000 years ago, with a diameter of 8.9 cm, and the edge of the mirror has two small holes, which is convenient for people to wear ropes and hang. It is not difficult to see from this seven-pointed star-patterned bronze mirror that the original bronze mirror is small in size, and the decoration is mainly based on simple geometric ornamentation, which is rougher overall.
Love testimony
Yin Xu Woman Good Tomb Leaf Vein Mirror
In anyang Yin Ruins in Henan Province, 3,000 years ago, a wife of a Shang king Wuding was buried, and a very exquisite Bronze Mirror of the Shang Dynasty was unearthed from the tomb. According to legend, when he was a teenager, Wu Ding wandered in the folk and fell in love with the woman, and the father of the woman told Wu Ding after learning about it: A man who loves his wife will send a bronze mirror to express his admiration, and if he can have a mirror, I will give you my daughter. Later, after Wu Ding succeeded to the throne, the first thing he did was to give the bronze mirror of the imperial capital to the woman. With this bronze mirror, Wu Ding married a woman. They have always loved each other, and after the death of The Woman, the bronze mirror was also buried with her and became the witness of the love between Wu Ding and the Woman.
Western Zhou Plain Mirror
Western Zhou Su visor
Excavated in 1958 in the Western Zhou Tomb in Baoji City, it is a plain copper mirror in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, with a small shape, nearly round shape, a flat back, and an olive-shaped bridge button; the edges are not regular enough, the production is rough, the thin and thick instrument is uneven, and the overall plain surface is wrinkle-free. The bronze mirrors of the Shang Zhou Dynasty were relatively small and very thin, mostly plain surfaces, and some were decorated with simple geometric patterns.
Warring States Hundred Flowers Contend
Warring States cockroach pattern copper mirror
The Warring States period was the first peak in the history of the development of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors. Due to the development of the productive forces, the society has undergone drastic changes, and people's aesthetics have also undergone tremendous changes, and the fierceness, sacredness and intimidation of the past have disappeared, and they have been replaced by flexible, free and exaggerated artistic expressions. The number of bronze ceremonial vessels was gradually reduced, while the number of objects used in daily life increased, the types of bronze mirrors in this period were diverse, the number and types of ornaments increased, and the casting techniques were exquisite and mature, and colorful ornaments such as dragon patterns, cockroach patterns, diamond patterns, animal patterns, and four-leaf patterns appeared.
Eastern Jin Dynasty Gu Kai's "Female History Proverbs"
Today's bronze mirror course first learned about here, want to know what exquisite copper mirrors there are after the Warring States, the next issue of the "Bronze Mirror Expo" we will not see or disperse!
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Editor: Wang Rui
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