"Closed museum does not close the exhibition, online to see cultural relics"
Hello everyone, welcome to Baobo Micro Classroom! Mention bronze, everyone may think of bronze ding, gui and other ceremonial instruments for the first time, in fact, there are some very special and mysterious members of the bronze family. Today for you to introduce two very mysterious bronzes, let's take a look!
Excavated in 1974, in the No. 1 tomb of Rujiazhuang, a national cemetery in Baoji City (yú), unearthed a bronze figure, the bronze man was a male face, standing, bald head and round face, cheekbones are more prominent, the forehead is narrower, the ears are smaller, there are two large eyes, the nose is also very wide, the arms are raised to the upper right, the hands are rounded, as if to hold, wearing a collarless narrow sleeve cardigan robe, there is a shawl, the collar hangs on the chest, the waist belt, and the lower hanging "knee cover" (a large scarf around the front of the clothes, used to cover the knees).
In the second tomb of Rujiazhuang, a bronze figure was also unearthed, the difference is that the bronze person is a female face, only a bust portrait, round face and pointed jaw, three-pronged copper hair ornament on the top of the head, narrow forehead, huge ears, protruding cheekbones, pointed nose, full chest, slender waist, hands placed on both sides, in a circular shape, as if to hold, wearing a shawl and wide sleeves narrow mouth cardigan robe. The bottoms of the two copper men are hollow and can be inserted into wooden bases.
Bronze ware in the shape of figures excavated from Western Zhou tombs is relatively rare. The two bronze figures were excavated between the coffins and placed together with bronze ceremonial vessels, indicating that they were not ordinary ornaments. The hands of male and female copper people are very similar to the hands of copper people excavated from Sanxingdui, and the three-pronged copper hair ornament worn on the heads of female copper people also has strong characteristics of the ancient Shu kingdom, so archaeologists believe that the Baoji state cemetery has the cultural factors of the ancient Shu state, and at the time of the Shang Zhou, the country and the ancient Shu country also have a close connection. But there are still many mysteries and controversies in the bodies of male and female bronze men: what is the identity of male and female bronze men? Why are the hands of male and female bronze men ringed? Did the Ring Hand originally hold some kind of artifact?
The country is a country without history books, but the emergence of many cultural relics has brought the country to us, the country has long been annihilated in the long river of history, but the wordless cultural relics still leave us with many difficult puzzles, waiting for us to solve...
So far, there are many copper people found by archaeology, let's help them line up, from high to low, to see if you are in the right line?
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Answer: C
Issue: 17.9cm, No.: 11.6cm, Issue: 260cm, Issue: 20cm, No.: 12.4cm
Reference: Chen Liang, "Lectures on Treasures of Baoji Bronze Ware Museum", Northwest University Press, April 2021.
Image source: Cultural relics photos from the Baoji Bronze Museum, Sanxingdui Museum official website and Weibo.
Editor: Wang Yining
Editor-in-charge: Cui Ruihua
Review: Li Qi