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("Kneeling Bronze Figure", Sanxingdui Museum Collection)
Previous article
We saw many kinds of bronze artifacts in the Sanxingdui Museum that are strangely shaped, unpredictable in function, and still mysterious today. Since they were unearthed, these artifacts have aroused the world's attention: who made them? Why are they so weirdly shaped? What do they mean? ...... We are still mostly ignorant of them.
Today, the Sanxingdui bronze ware we want to know also belongs to the "three no artifacts" - ignorant of the accurate age, ignorant of who made it, ignorant of functional uses. Moreover, it has a particularly prominent feature:
Sanxingdui bronze portraits are rare bronze figures with the same eye shape as people
(Above). It is:
The protagonist of this article -
Kneeling bronze figure
。
(The artifacts in the pictures in this article are all collections of the Sanxingdui Museum and will not be re-annotated)
(Part of "Kneeling Bronze Statue")
The most distinctive thing about this "kneeling bronze figure" is its eyes - it is rare to see such a pair of eyes like a person in the Sanxingdui bronze statue. However, this question we put at the end, now let's look at its overall shape.
1. Hairstyle. This man's hairstyle looks stylish even today! From the front, it combed a large back, and it was quite greasy; from the side, its back was combed to the back of the head and then violently turned forward in a high wave. Sigh, must be so handsome!
2. There are holes in the ears, which may have been equipped with earrings (it seems to be a rich family).
3. Angry eyes, grinning teeth. Experts say it's "vicious-looking" (how do I think it's a little silly).
4. The top is a right jacket, cross-collar, long sleeves, short clothes, hands on the knees, wrist bracelet. (For more information about "collar and tong", see #Sanxingdui Chapter-17#——Sanxingdui Museum Treasure of the Town Hall: Mysterious Bronze Figure Wearing a Tuxedo)
5. Tie the belt twice around the waist, wear the lower body"
Calf nose crotch
(The red arrow in the figure points to it.) 裈, pronounced "Kun"), put on the socks on the foot, and the portrait is in a kneeling posture.
If you only look at the characteristics of ear ornaments, wrist bracelets, foot socks, and bronze casting, this statue should be a person with a certain status. Because bronze was an extremely valuable material at that time, it was usually not used to make statues of ordinary people. However, some scholars insist that it was a slave or prisoner of war because it wore a "calf nose" under it, which in ancient times only the poor and inferior wore.
What is a "calf nose"
？
Literally, it is: shorts shaped like the nose of a calf; crotch, meaning crotch pants. We can simply and crudely understand it as "a calf nose-shaped briefs", very fashionable!
In ancient times, people wore robes, and the inside of the robe was vacuum-shaped. Although the robe is simple and easy to make, it also has the disadvantage of not being cold enough, and cold air is often poured in from under the robe. With the development of society, people invented"
panties
(ku, 绔)"——
Pants with only two tubes
。 People put the trouser tube on the leg and then use the strap to hang the trouser tube on the belt, thus weakening the damage to the body when the cold wind pours in.
At that time, the poor could only make "silk" with inferior texture cloth, while the rich people used "wan", expensive silk fabrics. Therefore, later people used "纨绔" to describe the rich, and the source of "纨绔子" is here.
Later, for the convenience of riding a horse, people combined the quilt with only the trouser tube and no crotch into crotch pants - crotch, that is, crotch pants. This crotch pants can effectively protect the thigh and hip muscle skin from less friction when riding, and can go out without adding clothes outside the pants, which greatly improves the function of the clothing.
Short crotch pants that resemble a calf nose are called "calf nose pants"
The most famous person in history who wore the nose of a calf was
Sima Xiang, a great writer of the Han Dynasty
。 The "Chronicle of Sima Xiangru" records: "Xiang is like wearing a calf nose, mixed with Baoyong, and polyester in the city.". This means that after Zhuo Wenjun, the daughter of the rich Zhuo Wangsun, eloped with Sima Xiangru, because Sima Xiang was economically embarrassed, the two had to open a tavern to make a living. Sima Xiangru wore briefs (calf nose) every day and was busy in the city (self-brain patching).
Sure enough, Zhuo Wangsun was recruited (the decent people on the rich list could not afford to lose this face), had to admit this family affair and accompanied the two couples with huge wealth.
In short, the calf nose is the dress of the poor, which experts have concluded"
The kneeling bronze figure "represents the image of a slave or inferior person
(Bronze longitudinal mask)
Finally, let's talk about the eyes of the "kneeling bronze figure".
In the bronze statues or masks unearthed in Sanxingdui, their eyes are mostly strange and strange shapes, such as bronze longitudinal masks (above), bronze heads of people wearing chins (bottom photos), etc., only "kneeling bronze figures" are normal human eye shapes.
(Bronze head of a man with a bronze statue)
Some experts say that those strange eyes may represent the eye of God, which represents the image of God. Some scholars believe that they are blind eyes, that they represent a type of person engaged in cultural inheritance (similar to homer in Greece), and so on.
In short, whether it is the longitudinal eye, the blind eye or the human eye of the "kneeling bronze figure", there has been no convincing conclusion given so far, and it is estimated that there may be a result in 9102.
At last
The problem with this article is
: In terms of earrings, bracelets, socks, and the bronze statue itself, this "kneeling bronze figure" should represent the image of a person with a certain status, and there is no doubt that it is a slave or inferior class in terms of the calf nose he wears. So, which class do the friends think it belongs to?