In the 2006 10,000-volume edition of the "Shenyang Palace Museum" recommended by a friend, the author roughly flipped through the materials of the weapons and cultural relics in it, and the pictures in the book were exquisite, supplementing the author's previous cognitive gaps, but some of the text descriptions were still not convincing. For example, the decorative material of the 119-page Imperial Taiji Royal Waist Knife is iron gilded gold mistakenly written as copper gilded gold (sorry, the author's previous "Weapon Spectrum| the treasure of the town hall that can no longer be seen in the Imperial Palace in Shenyang, the figure says that the Nurha Red Sword and the Emperor Taiji Waist Knife are also wrong to believe the relevant media copper gilded claims, and do not believe their own eyes, it is better to believe in books than no books. ）
The decoration process of the Huang Taiji Knife is a beaded dazzling edge iron iron iron through carving hollow dragon pattern installation. At present, similar crafts can be done in Tibet, but the ornamentation, strength and material are different from those in the Central Plains. Page 130 Qianlong white jade put the peach skin sheath to fight the waist knife: explained as: "... The handguards are copper gilded skeletonized cloud-shaped...both are copper gilded skeletonized dragon patterns "This is wrong.
Comparison of the iron-iron gold skeletonized dragon pattern lifting beam (top) and the old Tibetan knife copper gilt skeletonized lifting beam (bottom) of the Qing Palace
Page 131 Qianlong shark skin sheath punching sword, the process is iron relief engraving gold paint, and the difference between the hollow bronze carving is still quite large. The book also treats the iron relief engraving and gilding lacquer process as a copper gilding process. If this statement continues to be passed down as a false rumor, it is not certain how many strange statements there will be. The iron relief engraving of the gold paint method comes from the 18th century Ofdustan, North India Womor Dynasty, the need to engrave reliefs on the iron fixture, and then the gold pieces are fully engraved on the fixture, and finally fill the depression with black paint, thereby increasing the contrast and three-dimensional sense of the ornament. Compared with copper gilded equipment, the iron gilding process is more difficult, and the surviving objects available for reference are relatively few, and the iron and silver are more used in horse harnesses and weapons, which are relatively unfamiliar to the personnel who mainly study miscellaneous items, and errors are inevitable. The physical objects of iron and copper gilded gold coexist at the same time, because of China's vast territory and uneven development. If you come into contact with a sufficient number of Ming and Qing sabers, waist knives and other armed cultural relics, it is not difficult to find that from West Asia to South Asia, from East Asia to Europe, Ming and Qing swords are eclectic in the characteristics of swords in various countries and regions at that time, showing a variety of styles, and have unique creations and plays.
Some readers have said that it is simple to distinguish the material, it is easy to find a magnet, is it so difficult? As a lover outside the system, the author has asked other museum relevant personnel about this issue, and concluded that even researchers within the system do not contact the cultural relics themselves at any time, cultural relics are cultural relics departments, research is a research department, and researchers are not easy to contact cultural relics themselves. And to be honest, they're just a job, and the authors are hobbies, which of course makes a big difference. At that time, a publishing unit also invited the author to write some explanatory text on the cultural relics in a certain collection, and the ancient books and photos of cultural relics in the collection were provided at any time, but the cultural relics themselves could not provide the opportunity to see it up close. The author thought about it again and again or politely refused. There may also be cognitive misunderstandings about the privately stored weapons and cultural relics that the author can get started, not to mention only looking at the data pictures. On paper, I finally realized that I had to do something about it, and I would like to encourage you all. The epidemic situation has a trend of getting better, and so on can resume visiting, you enthusiasts as far as possible to see the physical bar, the same type of physical high-definition multi-angle large picture shooting classification comparison, than look at those are also looking at the picture of the explanatory text is much stronger.
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