Seeing that it is almost the New Year, the sausages and bacon on the balcony of my parents exude the flavor of the New Year; the streets and alleys are decorated with festive festivities; the "divine beasts" at home during the holidays are full of smiles; the workers who have struggled outside for a year are full of bags on their shoulders with the excitement of going home. It seems that every molecule in the air is waiting for the countdown of the Chinese New Year's Eve night, and the "2022 Year of the Tiger Gala" of the Guanfu Museum is also rehearsing in full swing...
▲ A pair of stone tigers at the entrance
It turns out that the museum has always been "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the cultural relics related to the tiger have long been unable to hold back the heart of the duty, and each of them is prepared to make a beautiful appearance with special skills, and show his style in the Year of the Tiger.
▲Warring States Golden Tiger-shaped ornament
Collection of the Guanfu Museum
▲Western Han Dynasty inlaid turquoise golden tiger ornament
▲ Western Han Dynasty Jade Tiger ornament
The first to appear were the tiger brothers of the Warring Han delegation: a golden Warring States tiger ornament, which led two other fierce tigers more than 2,000 years old out of the mountain, one of which was the inlaid pine stone golden tiger ornament of the Western Han Dynasty, and the other was the Western Han jade tiger ornament that represented the virtue of a gentleman, two gold and one jade, which was "Jin Sheng Lishui, Jade out of Kungang." "These three tigers show the bravery and domineering spirit of the Warring States Era and the literary quality of the Han Dynasty Shangli respectively, and the meaning is beautiful - gold and jade are full of halls."
▲Song Dynasty Green and white jade carved Crouching Tiger Town
▲ Song Dynasty "Wangu Liufang" tiger-shaped paperweight
▲ Jin Dynasty Crouching Tiger shaped all the way to the family of stone stones
Next up are the tiger sisters of the Song and Jin dynasties, who are full of elegance in their bones, and they have a common feature: stationery supplies. There are paper towns, there are brick platforms, and a thousand years ago they did not know which literati and gentlemen were lying on the desk, smelling the ink, guarding the handwriting...
▲ Ming Dynasty Jade Tiger
▲Qing Dynasty Qingyu Crouching Tiger
It was followed by several small tigers from the Ming and Qing dynasties, small in size, at most one slap, all of which were jade. Literati are tired of writing, but they can play with it, just like you and me today, it is important to empty your head from time to time.
▲ Tiger pillow on display in the foyer
The finale is the black and brown tiger pillow of the Cizhou kiln in The Jindai, which lies in the entrance hall of the museum, and every visitor can see it at the first glance. The craftsman is very careful in the design of this tiger pillow, skillfully combining the tiger and the porcelain pillow, the tiger's tail is naturally closed on the side of the body, quiet and peaceful lying on the ground, the round eyes are double open, the mouth is slightly open, and it looks like the king of the hundred beasts. The yellow of the tiger pillow is a metaphor for the supreme "imperial power", which is to talk about the background of the burning of the tiger pillow in the Jin Dynasty.
▲Jin Dynasty Cizhou kiln black brown color tiger pillow
Why did the Jin Dynasty have so many tiger pillows? Legend has it that he was the fourth son of Jin Wushu, who participated in the siege of Tokyo, and the famous general Yue Fei fought against Jin Wushu head-on. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jin Wushu arrived in Luzhou, which is today's Changzhi, Shanxi, where the kiln mouth was extremely famous at that time and belonged to the Cizhou kiln system. Jin Wushu ordered the Luzhou kiln workers to burn the "Dragon Bed Tiger Pillow". We don't know if the dragon bed is burned out, but this tiger pillow is quite a lot, and it is now hidden in major museums. Presumably, the Golden Wushu was lying on the tiger's pillow dreaming of the Spring and Autumn Festival, bent on dominating the Central Plains. There are many more legends about the Golden Vulture, and there is no truth in history, only one truth remains. It is precisely because the fame of the Golden Vulture is so great that people are willing to believe that all the tiger pillows of the Cizhou kiln of the Jin Dynasty can be attributed to the name of the Golden Vulture.
▲ Cultural relics guardian meow: GuanFu cat reception curator Jin Fat Fat
In fact, there are still many tigers in the background makeup, the space is limited, the exhibition hall is large enough, or I hope that you will personally witness the beauty of tiger cultural relics in the Tiger Year Museum, personally listen to the legend of tiger cultural relics, personally smell the historical atmosphere of tiger cultural relics, and personally taste the cultural charm of tiger cultural relics. After all, the tiger cannot be picked up, but as the tiger master's Guanfu cats, each one is good and easy to learn, the tiger is cute and the cat celebrates the New Year, and the Spring Festival punch card is happy with the family.
meow... Oh... Uh huh...
During the Spring Festival holiday, the Guanfu Museum is closed in Chinese New Year's Eve, the first day of the first year, the second day of the first year, the third day of the first year, and the fourth day of the first year.