In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, the Gansu Provincial Museum held the "Tiger tiger shengfu - Nongyin (Year of the Tiger) New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics Joint Exhibition" during the Spring Festival, the exhibition was jointly selected by the China Cultural Relics Newspaper and 50 cultural institutions, selected hundreds of cultural relics, specimens and artwork pictures related to the tiger, assembled into a joint exhibition of chinese zodiac cultural relics pictures, and took the interesting tiger cultural relics as gifts for the Spring Festival, presenting a "Cultural Relics New Year Gift" for people. In the exhibition, more than 20 tiger cultural relics collected from all over the province were specially selected to meet with the audience, so that people could feel the strong traditional Chinese New Year flavor in the zodiac exhibition.
Tiger devouring sheep pattern gold ornament / Warring States Collection of Gansu Provincial Museum
Tiger devouring deer pattern bronze ornament / Han Gansu Provincial Museum collection
Cizhou kiln tiger pattern porcelain pillow / Song Gansu Provincial Museum collection
As early as 6500 years ago, there is an image of a tiger in the Yangshao culture tombs, and there are already a number of pictographic "tiger" characters in the Yin Shang oracle bones, from the rock paintings of the Stone Age, to the bronze of the Shang Zhou, the stone carvings of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the murals of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and even the calligraphy and paintings of the Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties. In the gold, jade, porcelain and bronze ware of the past dynasties, the image of the tiger is even more colorful.
Group of tigers Jiayuguan four gushin ditch petroglyphs
In the rock painting "Tiger Map" in Jiayuguan Sidao Guxingou, the vibrant animal kingdom is fully demonstrated. Five tigers hide in the grass waiting for their prey to arrive, snakes crawl on the grass, bison, sika deer, and goats quickly dodge the attack of the tiger herd, and birds soar in the air.
There are countless ancient cultural artworks on the mainland, and portrait brick art, as an important and unique field, truly records the scenes of people's production and life at that time. The tiger is extremely extensive in the subject matter of the portrait, its expression is rich and diverse, and its expression meaning is rich and diverse. In the exhibition, a number of tiger-related portrait brick cultural relics in our province are exhibited, including the Han Dynasty White Tiger Wadang, the Wei and Jin White Tiger Painting Portrait Bricks, the Western Jin Dynasty Li Guangshe Tiger Painting Portrait Brick, and the Western Jin Dynasty Decorative Door Tiger.
Li Guang's tiger paintings are like bricks/Western Jin Dynasty Dunhuang Museum Collection
The Western Jin Dynasty Li Guang shooting tiger paintings collected by the Dunhuang Museum show the scene of "Li Guang shooting tigers". Li Guang wore a crown on his head, a figure-eight beard, a narrow sleeved shirt with a cross-neck, a belt, and a lower body, and rode back to the galloping horse to open his bow. The story of Li Guang's shooting of the tiger is recorded in Sima Qian's "Records of History", the original text is: "Hunt widely, see the stone in the grass, think that the tiger shoots it, the middle stone is not broken, and the stone is also regarded." Because of the repetition of the shooting, it can not be re-entered into the stone. Guangshou County smells of tigers and tastes self-shooting. And Ju Beiping shot the tiger, the tiger was injured, and Guang yi shot him. ”
Ancient emperors would use the tiger's deterrent power to highlight their social status. The dragon is the king, the tiger is the general, and the tiger has been used since ancient times to symbolize the bravery and strength of the soldiers. In ancient times, the soldier symbols of dispatching troops were also in the shape of tigers, called "tiger symbols". "Fu" is a kind of relic commonly used in ancient China, which is generally divided into two halves, and the two halves are combined, which can be used as a certificate for contracting and fulfilling a certain type of affair. The exhibition features a number of bronze tiger charms from museums across Gansu Province.
Zuo Xiaowei Bronze Tiger Charm / Sui Zhuanglang County Museum Collection
In the exhibition of cultural relics in the Year of the Tiger, the silver medal of the Tiger Head of The Basi Bawen collected by the Gansu Provincial Museum is very distinctive and very precious. The charm is cast in iron and round. On both sides are inlaid with silver characters of The Ba Si Ba Wen, with five lines each. The tiger's head is bulging and wide-mouthed, the top mane is raised like a flame, the strong hair is curled like a swirling cloud, and the front paws are sharp, which is very powerful. This medal is a silver circle symbol and is mainly used to convey the relics used in emergency military emergencies.
Eight Si Ba Wen Tiger Head Silver Charm Medal / Yuan Gansu Provincial Museum Collection
The image of the tiger was also commonly used in ancient times for stationery supplies. A group of Crouching Tiger Copper Town in the Qingyang City Museum, the tiger is lying on a circular base, with its head held high, its eyes are sharp, its eyes are sharp, its eyes are sharp, its eyes are sharp, and the tiger in the cultural relics is depicted majestically and vividly.
Crouching Tiger Copper Town/Han Qingyang City Museum Collection
Since ancient times, China has regarded the tiger as a beast of auspiciousness, and people talk about tigers, worship tigers, carve tigers, draw tigers... It has formed a very distinctive Chinese tiger culture. People decorate their lives with various auspicious motifs. The majesty of the tiger in the political life system is self-evident, when it goes out of the political class and enters civil society, it has more of a visual pattern of warmth and the romance of the expression technique, people's worship of nature, the psychological appeal of longing for natural protection, but also make the tiger one of the mascots in life.
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