Tiger-shaped gold ornaments / Late Warring States Collection of Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County Museum
Tiger-eared copper cymbal/Western Zhou Collection of Gansu Provincial Museum
Gold belt hook / Warring States Collection of Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Eight Si Ba Wen Tiger Head Silver Charm Medal / Yuan Gansu Provincial Museum Collection
Stenciled Four Spirit Portrait Bricks / Han Zhangye City Museum Collection
Zuo Xiaowei Bronze Tiger Charm / Sui Zhuanglang County Museum Collection
Tiger devouring sheep pattern gold ornament / Warring States Collection of Gansu Provincial Museum
Tiger devouring deer pattern bronze ornament / Han Gansu Provincial Museum collection
Cizhou kiln tiger pattern porcelain pillow / Song Gansu Provincial Museum collection
Gilded tiger-shaped bronze plaque / Warring States Collection of Tianshui City Museum
In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the Gansu Provincial Museum will hold the "Tiger tiger shengfu - Nongyin (Year of the Tiger) New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" during the Spring Festival, the exhibition is jointly selected by the China Cultural Relics Newspaper and 50 cultural institutions, selecting hundreds of cultural relics, specimens and artwork pictures related to the tiger, assembling them into a joint exhibition of chinese zodiac cultural relics pictures, taking the interesting tiger cultural relics as gifts for the Spring Festival, and presenting people with a "Cultural Relics New Year Gift". In the exhibition, more than 20 tiger cultural relics collected from all over the province were specially selected to meet with the audience, so that people could feel the strong traditional Chinese New Year flavor in the zodiac exhibition.
Saber-toothed tiger skull fossil / Late Miocene - Late Pleistocene Silver City Museum Collection
Tigers belong to the family of cats. This family is the most adaptable and widely distributed of carnivores. It originated in the Late Miocene about 11 million years ago. The earliest known fossil tiger was discovered by Chinese scientists in Gansu, which lived in the early Pleistocene, about 2.5 million years ago.
In this exhibition, the Gansu Provincial Museum will exhibit a specimen of a wild Siberian tiger. The specimen is large, 2.17 meters long, 1 meter high, orange-yellow coat, colorful pattern, smooth coat color. This Siberian tiger was found in The Wolf Fork of Gangou Yi Township, Huining County. Siberian tiger, scientific name Siberian tiger, a subspecies of tiger, is the largest carnivorous cat in existence, and is a national first-class protected animal. For more than 30 years, under the care of generations of workers in the Gansu Provincial Museum, this specimen of the Siberian tiger is still well preserved and has been exhibited many times.
As early as 6500 years ago, there is an image of a tiger in the Yangshao culture tombs, and there are already a number of pictographic "tiger" characters in the Yin Shang oracle bones, from the rock paintings of the Stone Age, to the bronze of the Shang Zhou, the stone carvings of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the murals of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and even the calligraphy and paintings of the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties. In the gold, jade, porcelain and bronze ware of the past dynasties, the image of the tiger is even more colorful.
Archaeological data show that in the land of China 6000 to 7000 years ago, in addition to the dragon culture that is well known today, there was also a tiger culture closely related to the primitive hunting life. As the king of the beasts in the real animal world, the tiger not only represents power and strength, but is also endowed with human virtue and wisdom.
Group of tigers Jiayuguan four gushin ditch petroglyphs
In the rock painting "Tiger Map" in Jiayuguan Sidao Guxingou, the vibrant animal kingdom is fully demonstrated. Five tigers hide in the grass waiting for their prey to arrive, snakes crawl on the grass, bison, sika deer, and goats quickly dodge the attack of the tiger herd, and birds soar in the air.
White Tiger Wadang/Han Collection of Gansu Provincial Museum
Tiger head painting like brick / Wei Jin Dunhuang Museum collection
Li Guang's tiger paintings are like bricks/Western Jin Dynasty Dunhuang Museum Collection
There are countless ancient cultural artworks on the mainland, and portrait brick art, as an important and unique field, truly records the scenes of people's production and life at that time. The tiger is extremely extensive in the subject matter of the portrait, its expression is rich and diverse, and its expression meaning is rich and diverse. In the exhibition, a number of tiger-related portrait brick cultural relics in our province are exhibited, including the Han Dynasty White Tiger Wadang, the Wei and Jin White Tiger Painting Portrait Bricks, the Western Jin Dynasty Li Guangshe Tiger Painting Portrait Brick, and the Western Jin Dynasty Decorative Door Tiger.
The Western Jin Dynasty Li Guang shooting tiger paintings collected by the Dunhuang Museum show the scene of "Li Guang shooting tigers". Li Guang wore a crown on his head, a figure-eight beard, a narrow sleeved shirt with a cross-neck, a belt, and a lower body, and rode back to the galloping horse to open his bow. The story of Li Guang's shooting of the tiger is recorded in Sima Qian's "Records of History", the original text is: "Hunt widely, see the stone in the grass, think that the tiger shoots it, the middle stone is not broken, and the stone is also regarded." Because of the repetition of the shooting, it can not be re-entered into the stone. Guangshou County smells of tigers and tastes self-shooting. And Ju Beiping shot the tiger, the tiger was injured, and Guang yi shot him. ”
Ancient emperors would use the tiger's deterrent power to highlight their social status. The dragon is the king, the tiger is the general, and the tiger has been used since ancient times to symbolize the bravery and strength of the soldiers. In ancient times, the soldier symbols of dispatching troops were also in the shape of tigers, called "tiger symbols". "Fu" is a kind of relic commonly used in ancient China, which is generally divided into two halves, and the two halves are combined, which can be used as a certificate for contracting and fulfilling a certain type of affair. In the exhibition, a number of bronze tiger charms from museums across our province are exhibited.
In the exhibition of cultural relics in the Year of the Tiger, the silver medal of the Tiger Head of The Basi Bawen collected by the Gansu Provincial Museum is very distinctive and very precious. The charm is cast in iron and round. On both sides are inlaid with silver characters of The Ba Si Ba Wen, with five lines each. The tiger's head is bulging and wide-mouthed, the top mane is raised like a flame, the strong hair is curled like a swirling cloud, and the front paws are sharp, which is very powerful. This medal is a silver circle symbol and is mainly used to convey the relics used in emergency military emergencies.
In ancient times on the mainland, the four gods, also known as the four elephants, namely the green dragon, the white tiger, the suzaku and the Xuanwu, were people's favorite mascots, which had the effect of warding off evil spirits, avoiding disasters and praying for blessings. The tiger, the head of a hundred beasts, and the mighty cannibal figure has the ability to subdue ghosts and ward off disasters among the four gods. In the Qi men escape, the place where the tiger appears means auspicious and benevolent, which can bless the prosperity of future generations and the prosperity of generations. In the exhibition, the Han Dynasty stencimal four spirit portrait bricks collected by the Zhangye City Museum are printed on the front with the four sacred beasts of Suzaku, Xuanwu, Green Dragon and White Tiger, and the whole picture is painted with antique bronze coins. The four gods in the column are different, each with two milk nail patterns, the middle interior is decorated with four petal patterns, five milk nail patterns are embellished on the petals and the center, and the back and four sides are plain and unstried, the decoration is ancient and elegant, reflecting the very popular worship of the four gods in the Han Dynasty.
Influenced by the grassland culture, the shape of the tiger is more artistic and the form is also colorful. The Western Zhou Tiger Ear Shaped Copper Cymbals in the Gansu Provincial Museum resemble a half-ring as a whole, casting fierce tiger stripes and the tiger's back as a blade. There are short beards and two wear under the tail, cast grooves on the tail and claws, the tiger's head is bent down, the mouth is brassed, the teeth are open, and there is a circular perforation in the collar. The Warring States Gold Belt Hook in the Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology has a long-necked dragon head, a triangular neck, and a hollow carved symmetrical and wolf-shaped pattern inside the triangular border of the shoulder. The hook body is rectangular, and the frame is hollowed out to engrave a set of tiger-eating bighorn sheep patterns that are symmetrical. Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County Museum collects a tiger-shaped gold ornament from the late Warring States period, with the tiger's pointed ears upturned, its large mouth open, its mane curled up, its tail rolled up on its back and connected to its mane, and its four feet on the ground to make a walking shape, vividly showing the dynamic state of tiger walking. The Warring States Tiger Devouring Sheep Pattern Gold Ornaments collected by the Gansu Provincial Museum shows its teeth, its head is squatting, the tiger's mouth is holding the sheep, the front paws are pressed against the shoulders of the sheep, the back paws are grasping the buttocks of the sheep, and the limbs of the sheep are kneeling as a struggle, vividly showing the instantaneous dynamics of the tiger preying on the sheep, and the image is realistic. These tiger artifacts are the highlights of this exhibition.
In many cultural relics, the shape of the tiger is mostly fierce, so the tiger is also a symbol of majesty. Words such as Tiger General, Tiger Soldier, Tiger Wei and the like give people a sense of might and caution.
The Bronze Crouching Tiger of the Western Zhou Dynasty in the Qingyang City Museum vividly shows the majesty of the tiger. The tiger is in a reclining position, the tiger's head is slightly square, the eyes are rounded, the ears are erect, and the whole body is carved with tiger stripes. The shoulders and hips of the tiger are decorated with bird and animal patterns, and the tiger's tail is drooping and the tail end is rolled up, which portrays the image of the tiger very realistically.
Crouching Tiger Copper Town/Han Qingyang Museum Collection (This group of pictures is provided by Gansu Provincial Museum)
The image of the tiger was also commonly used in ancient times for stationery supplies. A group of Crouching Tiger Copper Town in the Qingyang City Museum, the tiger is lying on a circular base, with its head held high, its eyes are sharp, its eyes are sharp, its eyes are sharp, its eyes are sharp, and the tiger in the cultural relics is depicted majestically and vividly.
Since ancient times, China has regarded the tiger as a beast of auspiciousness, and people talk about tigers, worship tigers, carve tigers, draw tigers... It has formed a very distinctive Chinese tiger culture. People decorate their lives with various auspicious motifs. The majesty of the tiger in the political life system is self-evident, when it goes out of the political class and enters civil society, it has more of a visual pattern of warmth and the romance of the expression technique, people's worship of nature, the psychological appeal of longing for natural protection, but also make the tiger one of the mascots in life.
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