For the history of China that has been handed down for more than 5,000 years, word of mouth by everyone will inevitably appear the fallacy of three people becoming tigers, coupled with its own complex emotional color, so when telling others, it will always be focused on according to their own preferences, and some controversial topics will inevitably be biased.
Therefore, the object, as an object that does not depend on human consciousness and is not transferred by human will, can justly reflect the history of a certain period of time, bronze is a major representative, Ma Ta Feiyan is the classic work of bronze, but what we see is its majestic side, why is almost no one photographing the front? I laughed when I saw the front photo.
Early bronzes
In fact, China's bronze casting history is quite long, as early as the Slave Society's Xia Shang Zhou period has been bronze casting technology, and the Eastern Han Dynasty bronze horse can be said to be a later work of art, because the earliest bronze is not used to cast works of art, but to serve the liturgical system at that time, or social production.
The earliest bronzes were used for sacrifice, to complete some of the ceremonial activities of princes and nobles, and later served in production and life after being manufactured in large quantities, and bronzes as agricultural tools improved the social productivity of the time to a certain extent. Later, it was used as a drinking bottle and other living utensils.
It was not until the Qin and Han dynasties, when social productivity was further developed and bronzes were replaced by more practical iron tools, when bronzes were used to make a large number of works of art. Ma Ta Fei Yan is one of them.
As an unprecedented period of great unification in the Western Han Dynasty, a batch of classic bronze art works appeared one after another, and as a national treasure, Ma Ta Feiyan was unearthed, which shocked the whole country and became a representative work in bronze.
The masses deceived by the "Pegasus"
In fact, we learned a text called "Pegasus" as early as elementary school, which describes this bronze vessel of Ma Ta Feiyan, but at that time, the picture on the book only had a majestic side, and there was no frontal illustration, I believe everyone had the same question when they were young, what is the front of this horse.
A frontal photo of the spray
In fact, from the positive point of view, it is extremely funny and witty, just as described in the text at that time, there is no braid, saddle stirrups, reins, it looks like the group of Pegasus under the jurisdiction of Sun Wukong in journey to the West, free and unrestrained, but this freedom is inevitably a bit overheated.
Only to see its feet stepping on the auspicious clouds, the horse's head slightly sideways, the delicate horse nose seems to be because it is struggling to inhale and become large, the horse's mouth under the nose is slightly open, revealing two rows of incomparably fine teeth, and the tongue inside is about to come out, like a living thing. Coupled with that surprised look, it seems as if the whole horse is smiling at you.
In addition to the horse itself, after research, it was found that it was not a swallow at its feet, but a sacred bird called "Dragon Sparrow", which is a kind of phoenix, the most ferocious and fastest of the Phoenix family, once the wind is blown, it is a magnificent scene of black wings covering the heavens and the earth, and the sun, moon and stars are dim and dull.
Legend has it that once this kind of divine bird flies, it will not fall again, and its personality is lonely and arrogant, but as a Pegasus, it can casually step on the sacred bird under its feet, so think, although its positive funny, but it is indeed a real divine horse, and the base of the divine bird Fei Lian adds a feeling of loneliness to the Pegasus.
Values and heritage
In 1969, the people of Wuwei Leitai in Gansu Province encountered ancient tombs while digging tunnels, when China had not yet reformed and opened up, people's thinking was relatively closed, and they did not know what cultural relics were and how to deal with them.
At that time, after digging tunnels to dig the tomb, the villagers were afraid to continue to move the soil, the so-called unity is strength, when a number of bold villagers united together, further excavation without protective measures, due to the relatively low level of education at that time, they did not care about these bronzes dug out.
Forced by the social situation at that time, it was directly packed with bags of these Han Dynasty antiques to be sold as waste, because the sense of protection at that time was weak, so these high-value bronze ruts, characters, and horses were directly sold as ordinary bronzes, and the handling process was also damaged to varying degrees.
Half a month later, it attracted the attention of relevant parties, under the protected mining excavations of the Gansu Provincial Archaeological Team, the tomb of the general in the late Eastern Han Dynasty finally reappeared, and a total of more than 200 bronzes were found in it, and Ma Ta Feiyan was one of them.
Then this bronze galloping horse appeared in the Gansu Provincial Museum, because of its super high production technology, and fine production techniques, this work of art has been exhibited in more than 20 countries such as the United States, Britain, Japan, etc., which can be said to be world-renowned.
Its prototype is naturally also the famous sweat and blood BMW of the Han Dynasty in China, and then, due to its super high popularity, the China Tourism Bureau decided to take the horse flying swallow as a symbol of Chinese tourism, of course, it is the side of its majestic and majestic style.
Later, because of its humorous and witty front, it was photographed and transmitted to the Internet, which caused a group of netizens to laugh, calling it the most cute cultural relic, and circulating it on the Internet as a different meme. Inadvertently, with the help of new media in the network information age, this ma ta fei yan artwork has returned to our vision.
Through the Internet, Ma Ta Feiyan, who is constantly known to more people, once again blooms in the new era, and the funny takes us to relive the prosperity of ancient China.