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Tiger Tiger Shengwei - Nongyin Tiger Year New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition
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Sponsored by Liaoning Provincial Culture and Performing Arts Group (Liaoning Provincial Public Cultural Service Center), undertaken by Liaoning Provincial Museum and co-organized by Liaoning Provincial Cultural Heritage Protection Center, the "Tiger and Tiger Shengwei - Nongyin Tiger Year New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics Exhibition" is being exhibited in Hall 22, Third Floor, Liaoning Provincial Museum!
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Western Han Dynasty hollow eagle tiger pattern bronze plaque decoration
Collection of Liaoning Provincial Museum
Since the end of the 19th century, a large number of bronze plaques characterized by decorative animal patterns and with a strong steppe nomadic culture style have been excavated along the Great Wall in the north of the mainland, with different styles. These plaques use realistic techniques to vividly express the natural ecology of the wild animals in the grassland. They are mostly ornaments hanging from belts or clothing, symbolizing the strong psychology of the nomadic people who gallop on the vast grasslands. The northern nomads regarded tigers and other creatures in nature as totems, and made them into various bronze or gold and silver products for daily decoration, praying for strength and blessing peace, which was another form of totem worship of early northern peoples.
Han Hu Button Yu
錞于, also known as 錞釪, 錞, shaped like a cylinder, the upper part is slightly larger than the lower part, and the top button is more tiger-shaped, so it is often called "tiger button 錞于", which is an ancient bronze percussion instrument in the mainland. The earliest discovery is the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Hammer was mainly prevalent in the Han Dynasty. In the "Chinese Wu Language", there is a record of "Drum Dingning, Zhen Yu, Zhen Duo". The Zhou Li Di Guan Drum Man once had a record of "using gold hammers and drums". It is often used in conjunction with drums to command advances and retreats in warfare. Some people believe that the hammer with the tiger button should belong to the relics of the ancient Ba people. Casting a tiger on top of it is a major feature of Pakistani culture, and the tiger button symbolizes the brave and fierce god of war.
Eastern Han Dynasty Dragon and Tiger Confrontation Mirror
Eastern Han Dynasty Three Tiger Mirror
Dragon and tiger mirror is a type of bronze mirror with the image of the dragon and tiger as the main decorative ornament, which is different from the dragon pattern and cockroach pattern on the early bronze mirror of the Han Dynasty, and the dragon and tiger pattern ornaments on the dragon and tiger mirror are all displayed in the form of relief, with a thick body, clear features, and a large mirror button. According to the pattern and arrangement of the ornament, the dragon and tiger mirror can be divided into three types: the dragon and tiger confrontation mirror, the pan dragon mirror and the tiger mirror. Dragon and tiger confrontation mirror, dragon pattern and tiger pattern across the mirror button open mouth confrontation, common one dragon to one tiger, there are also a small number of copper mirrors, for a dragon against two tigers. The head and tail of the dragon and tiger are sometimes decorated with some other ornaments. Dragon and tiger mirrors were mainly popular from the late Eastern Han Dynasty to the Wei and Jin dynasties.
Sui tang xian shan and illuminate the mirror of the four gods
The four gods originate from ancient Chinese astrology, referring to the green dragon, white tiger, suzaku and xuanwu, and are the more favorite auspicious ornaments of the ancients. According to the Zhou Yi Qiangua, "The clouds are from the dragon, and the wind is from the tiger." "The dragon flies in the sky, the tiger travels on the ground, and the combination of the dragon and the tiger becomes a symbol of auspicious prosperity and a typical form of beautifying authority, constituting a national custom full of vitality and vitality." In the "Book of History and Heavenly Officials", there are records of "Eastern Palace Canglong" and "White Tiger". According to the Huainanzi Astronomical Training: "In the West, Jin Ye ... Its beast White Tiger. It can be seen that the White Tiger is the Western god of the four spirits, with the divine power to subdue ghosts and ghosts, eliminate disasters and avoid disasters, and it represents the four guardian gods together with the green dragon, suzaku and Xuanwu to guard the peace of one side.
Song Xuanyuan Mirror
The mirror is flat peach-shaped with a high convex flat-topped round button near the upper edge of the mirror back. Under the button is a double-line large rectangular box, there are three vertical lines of letters above the frame, with double lines as the line spacing, each line is four or five words, the content is "people have ten mouths, the front cow has no horns, and the rear cow has a mouth to go", this is a riddle, and the bottom of the puzzle is "A noon". In the middle of a long box is a relief tiger, looking back with a tail raised, and the four words in the lower rectangle are "to ward off evil and remove evil.". On both sides there are inscriptions on the seal: "Xuanyuan Weifa makes dan medicine, and the hundred refinements become the body of the winner.". Near the bottom, the left is yin and the right is yang. This bronze mirror, also known as the Xuanyuan Cultivating Cow Mirror, uses a peach-shaped mirror body, and the inscription is written with a pair of letters and small seals, and the text matches the only tiger pattern, complementing each other, and is painted in the word, and the word is outside the painting.
Qing Manchu Mongolian Zhelimu League Long Silver Seal
This seal is the official seal of the Qing Dynasty and is cast in silver. The square body, the tiger button, the indian character is engraved in Manchu and Mongolian characters, and the side yin engraving Chinese characters "Zhelimu League Long Seal Qianzi Yibai Shi San" "Qianlong Shi Zi Nian Huang Yue" and "Libu Zao". From the engravings of the seal, it can be seen that this Official Seal of The Manchu and Mongolian Is the Official Seal of the Qing Dynasty's Zhelim League. This seal is a letter issued by Qianlong in the thirteenth year of the Qing Dynasty to the head of the Zhelim League, which is an empirical evidence of the Qing Dynasty's implementation of the alliance banner rule over the Mongolian region.
Source: Exhibition Planning Department
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