More than 3,000 years ago, bronze smelting and casting ushered in the first prosperous year, and I came to this world.
At first glance it was bronze, and then it was the king, and it was me.
My name is The Two-tailed Bronze Tiger. With a length of 53.5 centimeters and a weight of 6.2 kilograms, my body is huge, making it the largest bronze tiger unearthed so far. Whether it is my body size or the tiger soul contained in my body, I have become a well-deserved king.
Look at my style, the majesty is not lost in the cunning, and the broad is not lost in the cunning. I looked at me with my ears erect, my eyes wide open, my eyebrows forward, and my tiger staring at me. The tiger's mouth is wide open, and its fangs are exposed, and this momentum seems to swallow the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. A pair of tails rolled up, four-legged squats, the entire body center of gravity moved back, doing a semi-lying posture, which is exactly the moment when I was about to take a leap in the air.
My abdomen is hollow, and the lower part of my abdomen is open, resembling a tiger.
I was surrounded by exquisite scales, cirrus and thunder patterns, which were particularly colorful and rich.
On the back of my majestic and broad tiger, there was a small bird lying on its back. The bird is calm, with a long neck, a short tail, a sharp beak and round eyes, and a high head. I am big bird small, I move birds quietly, I wei birds cute. I am not frightened of birds, birds are not afraid of me, my tall and brave and the small agility of birds are harmonious and harmonious.
In 1989, I was found in Dayangzhou Township, Xingan County, Jiangxi Province, and along with me were thousands of objects from thousands of years ago, of which more than 400 bronzes were particularly striking. The most distinctive feature of my bronze brothers is the use of the image of 53 tigers, large and small. There are crouching tigers on the bronze dings, flat tigers on the feet, tiger heads on the bronze goblets and bronze staffs, and various tiger patterns on the bronze shovels. Tigers have different forms, as if jumping out.
Where was this, and what kind of magnificent history is buried? Why are there so many tiger images? People can't help but think of the place where the oracle left a glimpse of the tiger fang, and the crowd that lived there with the tiger as a totem. Hufang, an independent regime built south of the Yangtze River? Or is there some kind of special connection with the Shang Dynasty in the Central Plains? Many questions remain a mystery to this day.
The tiger is one of the sacred beasts in ancient Chinese legends. In traditional Chinese culture, the tiger is sacred and mysterious, it drives away evil spirits and protects peace. It is brave and majestic, and has the spirit of a king. People love it and fear it, so since ancient times, the tiger in art works has often been majestic and kingly, and has become a spiritual symbol for people to pray to drive away evil and ward off evil. This colorful tiger reflects the colorful spiritual world of Chinese and constitutes the ever-changing tiger culture in the traditional Chinese sense.
Come, come to the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, you can find my figure. Stand next to me, close your eyes, and let me take you on a journey through time.
I'm ready to get up, and it's you who's waiting to pick it up.
Source: CCTV