Tiger tiger shengfu, do you know the "tigers" of these museums in Yunnan?

Tiger cultural relics of different eras, different regions and different cultural backgrounds reflect the local historical causes and cultural characteristics of that time in the sense of shape, aesthetics, connotation and symbolism, and when they come together, tigers and tigers are powerful, presenting the broad, profound, diverse and inclusive spiritual core of Chinese civilization.

The Yunnan Provincial Museum and the Kunming Municipal Museum have a large collection of bronzes cast with the image of the tiger in the ancient Dian Kingdom. These bronzes are realistic in shape, combining movement and static, tiger and tiger, exuding vitality, reflecting the meticulous observation of nature by the intelligent and intelligent Dian people.

Niu Hu Copper Case

The masterpiece of Dian culture is representative and unique

The Niuhu Copper Case is a masterpiece of Yunnan bronze culture and art, and a representative of Dian culture.

The shape of the bull tiger copper case is two cattle and one tiger, the main body is a large cow, standing, the horns of the bull fly up, the back naturally falls into the case; the tail is decorated with a tiger with a reduced proportion, the tiger is climbing, and the mouth is open to bite the tail of the cow; the belly of the big bull is hollow, and the horizontal set is decorated with a calf, which is standing.

The proportion of the size of the utensils is coordinated, the shape and shape are combined with the movement and static, the intention is unique, the imagination is rich, and it has high artistic value.

Collection Museum: Yunnan Provincial Museum

Gilded knights and other shellfish containers

Three-dimensional image, combination of dynamic and static

In the ancient Dian Kingdom, there were more shell vessels with tiger ears, such as gilded knight shell containers, shellfish containers for the Curse Ofe Scene, ShellFish Containers for Eight Bulls and Tiger Ears, and Shell Containers for Animal Fighting Scenes.

Gilded knight shellfisher, the artifact is a typical corset barrel type of shell storage, with a symmetrical pair of tiger ears at the waist, and the tiger is climbing.

Animal fighting scene shell container, in addition to a pair of climbing tiger ears, the cover of the instrument is also cast with a three-dimensional animal fighting scene, a tiger in the center as a roar, on each side of a bull, for a fighting. There is a tree cast in the center of the lid, and there are two monkeys and two birds on the tree, and the two birds are terrified and flutter their wings, and the side reflects the thrilling fight between the tiger and the ox.

Tiger bull fighting and other buckles

Meticulous, vivid and natural

There are also many buckles of tiger elements in the cultural relics of the ancient Dian Kingdom, including flying tiger pattern silver belt buckles, eight-person tiger hunting copper buckles, three tiger back bull buckles, tiger bull fighting buckles, tiger eating pig buckles, Warring States tiger head shaped copper buckles, etc., these artifacts are vividly cast, reflecting the meticulous observation of nature by the art craftsmen of the ancient Dian kingdom.

The three tigers back the bull buckle ornament, the cow is bitten by the three tigers, the big tiger carries the fruits of victory on its back, and the two small tigers follow closely one after the other, with their heads held high and their tails held high, with a lively posture.

Flying tiger striped silver buckle, strange shape, gorgeous decoration, a winged tiger in the center, the eyes are shining, the image is vivid, full of spirit.

Warring States tiger head shaped copper buckle ornament, tiger head is triangular, upright ears, eyes large and protruding, tiger nose, tiger mouth large open sharp teeth. The overall image is vivid, and the roar of the tiger seems to be about to come out.

Collection Museum: Kunming Museum

Cattle are docile in most cases, and when attacked by tigers, they will also rise up to resist. Like the tiger and the bull fighting buckle, a tiger and a bull fight, the tiger is knocked to the ground by the cow, the tiger bites the front leg of the cow, and the cow pierces the tiger's abdomen with sharp horns.

Tiger on the weapons of the Dian Dynasty

Beautifully cast and lavishly decorated

Tiger bull fighting copper goat is a ceremonial guard, the blade is rectangular, the forward is flush, double-edged, a tiger and a bull are divided into two ends of the brass, the tiger's front feet are half lying down, wanting to make a flutter, and the cow's head sinks downwards, showing sharp horns, trying to fight back. A battle between cattle and tigers is about to begin.

The two tigers play with the snake and peck at the copper, the two tigers lie on the horizontal bronze, the tiger's head is opposite, a long snake swims under the tiger's abdomen, the snake's head is placed on the shoulder of a tiger, and the snake's tail is rolled on the hip of another tiger, making a twisted struggle. The two tiger heads are tilted to one side, the front paws hold the snake, and the hind legs are bent and full of movement.

I want to get up close

The tiger and tiger of the bronze ware of the ancient Dian kingdom

In the New Year, I will go to the Yunnan Provincial Museum,

Kunming Museum to find out!

Source/ Department of Culture and Tourism of Yunnan Province

Editor/Yunnan Tai Xu Meiling

Editor-in-Charge/Yunnan Tai Ma Yannan

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