2022 is the Year of the Tiger in the lunar calendar. The tiger is the "chief of a hundred beasts", the tiger's might, bravery and majesty are memorable, and it is the auspicious beast in traditional Chinese culture, from the "king of the mountain" to the tiger of the totem, the white tiger, the fuhu tiger, the tiger of the town house, and the costume of the "tiger head and tiger brain", people talk about the tiger, worship the tiger, carve the tiger, draw the tiger, cut the tiger... It has formed a very distinctive Chinese tiger culture.
Wuliang Culture Museum of Wuwei City, on the occasion of the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, specially launched the online exhibition "Tiger and Tiger Shengfu - Cultural Relics of the Year of the Tiger" to cheer for the Olympic athletes in the mainland and pray for the Olympic athletes to be proud of the tigers on the field and win glory for the country! Send a "Cultural Relics New Year Gift" to the general public and friends, and better understand the excellent traditional Chinese culture while exhibiting online.
Ring chain tiger with hook
Sengoku, length 102.5, hook length 8, width 4.3, ring diameter 6.4 cm. It is composed of three parts: tiger-shaped belt hook, chain belt and copper ring, and is a complete belt. The hook is a duck-billed hook head with a tiger-shaped hook body. The tiger crawls, looks back, kneels on the front legs, the back legs are propped up, and the hips are cocked. Tiger open mouth with open teeth, apricot eyes, vertical ears, tiger body decorated with swirls and short slash lines. The surface of the copper ring is decorated with beveled thunder patterns.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, ancient men with higher social status often wore wide robes and large-sleeved clothes, which needed to be tied with hooks and fixed leather belts around the waist, and were also used to fix the buckles of swords and sabers. As an ancient costume tool, the Huainan Zi records: "The seat of the full hall, depending on the hook, is different, and the ring and belt are also one." "It means that in the production of hooks, there is a competition for beauty to show the nobility of the status of the user. Bronze casting process is complex, with hooks are mostly cast with fan casting methods, the production of ring chains is extremely difficult, this piece with hooks is the embodiment of the achievements of bronze casting process.
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Source: Wuliang Culture Museum