Xizhen has a long history of use, during the War and Han Dynasty, people sat on the ground, in order to prevent the corners of the seat, often suppressed by heavy objects, this is the origin of Xizhen, although it is only a living tool, but the ancient skilled craftsmen not only pay attention to craftsmanship but also pay attention to materials, or use precious gold, or use jade or wrong gold and silver, gilded copper and other production of Xizhen, the ancients will sublimate small seating utensils to the art of great beauty, practical and beautiful meaning. Therefore, although Xizhen is small, there are people who like to collect Xizhen from ancient times to the present. There are many ancient xizhen shapes, there are character shapes, there are animal shapes, from the current archaeological discoveries of cultural relics to animal-shaped seat town mostly, there are bear-shaped seat town, deer shaped seat town, camel shaped seat town, geese shaped seat town and so on. There are some shapes of the town are all beautiful meanings. For example, the deer represents Fulu Shou, and the bear represents the domination of the world.
Xizhen is a historical physical evidence, is the ancient aristocratic family pressure mat practical objects, exquisite production is mostly from the Han Dynasty, the material is diverse, the shape is diverse. Regarding the diversity of materials, it can also be seen from the records of some ancient documents: "Chu Ci Xiang Lady" records that "Bai Yu Xi is a town." In addition to copper, iron, jade, stone, ceramics and so on. Xizhen is a town used for pressing tents or xijiao. In the Han Dynasty, there were towns dedicated to pressing seats, so they were called "seat towns". The following picture is listed by the National Museum as the Western Han Yu Xiong Xi Town, with beautiful and imposing body sculptures, which are thought to be the royal objects of the Chu King at that time.
In the Han Dynasty, the bear was the beast of Xiangrui might, so the Han Dynasty Gongqing and the Marquis all rode on the rim with the bear to take the meaning of Xiangrui mighty. Among the current collections of Han Dynasty jade carvings, bears are the rarest. The jade bears of the Han Dynasty were at least used at the princely level and were also handed down for example. The following is a family heirloom ancient jade culture communication co., LTD. old collection of a Han Dynasty style and Tian jade carving XiZhen jade lying bear weighs 256 grams and size 9 cm, the shape is dignified and simple, the appearance is perfect, and the pulp is mellow. The jade is delicate, the shape is full of charm, the material is warm and moist, and it is carved roundly, clean and neat. Share it for everyone to appreciate together. Every collector, every piece of the collection has experienced denial, being tortured by affirmation, different knowledge, different understanding, the collection world is a kaleidoscope, endless changes! But no matter how it changes, we cannot easily deny a great labor creation of the ancients! In fact, for the inheritance of Chinese culture and the protection of folk cultural relics, folk collection is really doing a great deed that benefits the people and the country, and it also plays an auxiliary role in protecting national treasures.
Ancient artworks have historical value, cultural value, aesthetic value, non-renewable value, collection can let family and children personally contact and understand the charm of traditional Chinese culture, can make people fear the ancestors to enhance national self-confidence, collection so that China's 10,000 years of jade culture history and 5,000 years of civilization history can be better inherited and carried forward. The author suggests that the state should promulgate a "Cultural Relics Donation Law" as soon as possible. According to the wishes of the collector of cultural relics, either free donations, or paid collection of concessions. Let these social cultural relics protectors become social heroes, so that everyone can learn and admire.