The "Explanation of The Interpretation of The Words" says: "The tiger, the king of the mountain beast." "Bronze ware is the most important and representative ceremonial vessel of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties in China, and even a symbol of power and status."
Today's Lichun, two king-level cultural relics from the National Museum of China, I wish you a better and better Year of the Tiger!
The bronze bronze statue of the Shang Dragon and Tiger pattern was excavated in Funan County, Anhui Province, and is now in the collection of the National Museum of China.
Shanglong tiger striped bronze figure, large mouth, diameter over the shoulder, high neck, lower part of the contraction, in the shape of a large trumpet. The shoulders are slightly drummed, folded down into the abdomen, curved and converged as a circular bottom, circled feet, and decorated with cross cutouts. The shoulders are decorated with three curved dragon patterns, with a round carved dragon head protruding out of the shoulders; the abdomen is decorated with three groups of tiger cannibal patterns with cloud thunder patterns; and the circle feet are decorated with gluttonous patterns.
It is a lost treasure, a wandering treasure, a returning child, who survived the plundering of the Yuanmingyuan, was displaced in a foreign country, and returned to his hometown when the motherland was prosperous. The road it has traveled, a journey of thorns, a journey of wind and snow, is still guided by stars. It is a bronze "tiger hammer" of the Yuanmingyuan cultural relics.
The bronze "Tiger Lock" is a rare Western Zhou bronze that was plundered in the Yuanmingyuan and was lost overseas for more than 100 years. On December 11, 2018, it was officially entered into the National Museum of China. The inscription "Self-made Offering" is cast in the lid of the cultural relic, which has important historical, artistic and cultural value due to its exquisite and unique shape and rare tiger-shaped decoration.
"The tiger roars and the wind rises, the dragon rises in the clouds, the heroes and the wise rise, and each time is also due to the times." The king welcomes the spring and wishes you all the best in the Year of the Tiger!
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