Elephant News Reporter Zhou Lan/Ventu
The Year of the Tiger has arrived, come and look for the tiger! On January 31, the reporter accompanied the citizens to the Henan Provincial Museum to look for "tiger cultural relics".
At more than 10 o'clock in the morning, many Zhengzhou citizens have come to the door of the Henan Museum, scanned the health code and went straight to the venue.
The reporter noticed that in front of the jade tiger-shaped cultural relics in the exhibition hall, Mr. Zhang took the camera and concentrated on shooting, "I am a designer, today I came to shoot some cultural relics, especially those involving tigers, you can retain some information, and later apply it to your own design works, or post it on the Internet, and communicate with interested people in the same way." ”
According to the data, the jade tiger-shaped sitting figure is a cultural relic of the Western Zhou Dynasty, with a height of 5 cm, a width of 2.5 cm, and a thickness of 2.8 cm. Excavated in 1997 in The Tomb of Changzikou in Taiqinggong Town, Luyi County, Zhoukou, it is very small, and it is rare to show the three images of tiger head, human body and standing owl in a subtle way, plus the three images are perfectly combined to make the overall shape smooth and coordinated, and it is even more rare without any sense of abruptness.
Mr. Zhao, a citizen, stood in front of the cultural relics display cabinet and picked up his mobile phone to focus on the shooting. "This is a gilded and silver Crouching Tiger shaped copper town, a cultural relic of the Western Han Dynasty, which looks like a fierce tiger and has the meaning of exorcising demons and warding off evil spirits."
The reporter learned that the cultural relics are cultural relics of the Western Han Dynasty and were excavated in WeiyangGong Township, Xi'an, Shaanxi. Height 3.1 cm, base diameter 6.1 cm, weight 400 g. Disc-lying, head back, jaw on the back crotch, wide mouth and wide nose, eyes slightly open, two ears behind the back, four claws together into an arc, thick and long tiger tail bent inwards and rolled on the ventral side, the shape is natural, seems to be sleepy.
The tiger-shaped town is gilded throughout, and there is a wrong silver in between, and the wrong silver process is to chisel out a shallow groove on the surface of the tiger, press the silver wire into the groove, and hammer the wrong flat. Gold and silver are two colors, the color match is natural and harmonious, it looks magnificent. There is a round hole in the center of the bottom from which lead can be poured inward to increase weight.
Mr. Zhao said that the tiger is one of the important motifs in the bronze modeling, not only the independent bronze tiger sculpture, but also the tiger ornament, the tiger shaped vessel and the tiger ornament. "In China's thousands of years of history and culture, elements such as tigers, dragons, and phoenixes have been reflected in many cultural relics, such as bronze and porcelain. Although it is not surprising, it is rare to be able to preserve it to the present day. ”
"I also photographed the gilded tiger head bronze ornaments, excavated from the Tomb of Jishan Han in Zibo, Shandong, and the bronze ornaments in the shape of a wrong gold crouching tiger, which were unearthed in the tomb of Zhao Qing in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan, Shanxi." Speaking, Mr. Zhao turned over the mobile phone photo album and told reporters. "This year is the Year of the Tiger, and I also came to the museum to look for some elements of the tiger. Shooting the tiger in the year of the tiger means that the tiger is a tiger in the year of the tiger, and I hope that everyone can be auspicious in the year of the tiger. ”