The new year is like a tiger
Dragons leap and tigers leap, tigers and tigers are full of wind
Let's discover the "Tiger" of Shaanxi Libo's collection
Shaanxi History Museum Year of the Tiger cultural relics recommended
White Tiger Wadang, Wrong Golden Du Tiger Charm
▲ White Tiger Wadang
The Four Gods of the Han Dynasty, Wadang, now in the Shaanxi History Museum, was excavated in 1956 at the site of Han Chang'an City, with a diameter of about 18.5-20 centimeters. The white tiger wadang has a center in the middle, the tiger's body is wrapped around the center, and the blank space of the upper part of the tile is curled up with a long tail, showing the strength of the tiger, forming a complete pattern.
"Three Auxiliary Yellow Figures" Cloud: "Canglong, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu, the Four Spirits of Heaven, with the square four directions."
▲ Wrong Jindu Tiger Charm
Warring States mistake JinDu Tiger Charm, tiger as a shape, head up ring eyes, half open mouth, ears back to the brain, abdomen bent back, legs bent forward, tail upturned. Protruding on the front and grooved on the back. This is the left half. Length 9.5 cm, height 4.4 cm, thickness 0.7 cm, weight 0.08 kg.
▲ Wrong Jindu Tiger Fu Tiger God inscription
The tiger's body has a wrong gold inscription of nine lines and four crosses: "The rune of the armor, the right is in the jun, the left is in the Du, and the van Xingshi wears armor, and uses more than fifty soldiers, he will surely meet the rune, but dare to do it." The things that burn, though they do not meet the signs, are to be destroyed. ”
The tiger charm originated very early as a proof of dispatch of troops in Chinese history, and the story of Xin Lingjun's "stealing the symbol to save Zhao" shows that the tiger rune was already used at least in the Warring States period. Moreover, it can be seen from the records that during the Warring States period, the monarchs of various countries implemented a similar system in order to control military power.
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▲White Tiger Diagram
The White Tiger belongs to the four gods, and in the minds of the ancient people on the mainland, the White Tiger is also the god of war and the god of killing. This white tiger figure was created in the second year of Emperor Zhongzong of Tang (706), 196 cm high and 681.5 cm long, and was unveiled in 1971 on the west wall of the tomb of Prince Yide in Qianxian County, Shaanxi Province.
The artistic technique of the White Tiger Diagram is superb, and its color application method is mainly flat coating, but also uses blending, line color drawing, gold painting and so on. In addition to purple, red, green, yellow, blue, black and other mineral pigments, gold and silver are also used, which can be called the masterpieces left in the tomb murals of the representative painting schools from the early Tang Dynasty to the Sheng Tang Dynasty, and are extremely rare in today's Tang Dynasty paintings.
▲ Silver Tiger
During the Bronze Age in the northern steppes of the mainland, tiger ornamentation was a more common bronze decorative motif. The silver tiger now in the Shaanxi History Museum was excavated in 1957 from the Xiongnu tomb in Nalingaotu Village, Shenmu County, Shaanxi Province, along with three silver tigers and two golden tigers.
▲ Queen's Seal
Although the Queen's Seal is only the size of the palm of one hand, it is an antiquity representing identity and power, and the crystal lustrous instrument is carved with a fierce tiger. The printed surface is square, the texture is mutton fat jade, and the whole body is crystal clear and moist. The tiger is a button, the tiger is angry and round-eyed, open mouth and teeth, fierce image, and healthy posture. The four sides are engraved with cloud patterns, and the printing surface is engraved with the four characters of the seal book "Seal of the Queen".
▲Tiger-striped tantale jade pendant (positive)
▲Tiger striped tantale jade pendant (reverse)
韘 [shè] is a tool worn by ancient people on the right hand to hook the string when shooting arrows, and the use of the tan can maximize the effective range while protecting the shooter's right thumb from being strangled by the bow string. Tiger-striped tantale jade pendant, height 5.8 cm, width 5.7 cm, white jade, shaped in the heart, the upper end is pointed, the central round hole is carved with a tiger stripe, the tiger is curled and coiled, full of dynamics. The sides are cirrus patterns, and the lines are smooth and flexible.
▲ Warring States Tiger New Pine Yu
It is a bronze percussion instrument of ancient mainland China. The shape of the hammer is like a cylinder, the upper part is slightly larger than the lower part, the hammer has a button on the top, and the button is mostly tiger-shaped, so it is called the tiger button. At present, the most condensed in the Spring and Autumn periods to the Two Han Dynasties has been found. As a military musical instrument, it is often used in conjunction with drums to direct advances and retreats in war.
▲Warring States Tiger Button In (Partial)
Tiger button is the largest number of hammers unearthed and handed down in China. The surface is oval disc-shaped, the shoulders are particularly bulging, the abdomen is straight and cylindrical, there is no thin waist, and the foot mouth is straight. The tiger button stands tall in the noodle dish. The Tiger Button is one of the representative artifacts of the late Ba culture.
▲Zodiac figurines
This group of Tang painted pottery zodiac figurines was unearthed in a Tang tomb in the southern suburbs of Xi'an, all of which are animal heads, with faces of rats, cows, tigers, rabbits, dragons, snakes, horses, sheep, monkeys, chickens, dogs, and pigs, with a human form, wearing an open-collared and wide-sleeved robe, with the length of the robe hanging down to the feet, hands arched in front of the chest, and there are some cute and elegant postures.
▲ Tiger figurines
The tiger has always been called "the king of the hundred beasts", the tiger is also a symbol of courage and strength in the poetry of the ancients, and the tiger figurine, as one of the twelve zodiac figurines, has also been loved by everyone.
▲Sheep's head spoon (partial)
Sheep's head spoon, length 28.5 cm, spoon diameter 9.5 cm, weight 0.52 kg. In October 1977, the village of Xiejiagou in Qingjian County, Shaanxi Province, was excavated in the late Shang Dynasty. It is shaped like a hemispherical spoon body with a long flat handle. The end of the handle is decorated with a curved horned sheep's head, and the eyes are round and open, making an open mouth hissing. The handle faces the direction of the spoon body, casting a standing beast in the front and a fierce tiger in the back. The dog has ears straight, a slight bundle of tails, a slightly open mouth, and a front eye. The tiger is strong in shape, with erect ears, a long tail that rolls on the ground, limbs that are slightly flexed, and the mouth is open for predation.
Spoons are fewer in number than buckets and are rarer in bronze. This sheep's head spoon belly is deeper than the general wine vessel, but there are wine vessels excavated from the same tomb, and scholars speculate that it should also be used for wine, which reflects the understanding of tigers in the Shang Dynasty.
Source: Xi'an Release