Virtual pole press: double luan open mirror like autumn light, dissolve the mirror vertical elephant bed.
There are many heavy meta-universes in this world, life and death, virtual and real, how many people in the past and the present have been misguided because of the "Treasure Book of the Wind and Moon", and finally ended up with a desperate death. "Dream of the Red Chamber" has such a medicinal slag, which was taken to life by a magic mirror. In fact, the magic mirror is innocent, and greed is the bane.
The twelfth time in "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Wang Xifeng Poison Set Up Acacia Bureau Jia Tianxiang Zhengzhao Fengyue Jian" writes that Jia Rui suffered from love for Wang Xifeng and suffered from lovesickness, and there were crippled Daoists who cured the disease of wrongdoing to him, and the prescription prescribed was a "Feng Yue Treasure Book" from the illusory realm. The Daoist told Jared that he could only reflect it, not look at it correctly. "Jared closed the mirror and thought, 'This Daoist is interesting, why don't I try to take a picture of it?'" After thinking about it, he picked up the 'Wind moon book' and took a picture of the reverse, only to see a skeleton standing inside, scaring Jia Rui into covering up in a hurry, scolding: 'Taoist, how to scare me!' I'll take another look at what the front is. Thinking about it, he took another picture of the front, only to see Sister Feng standing inside waving at him. Jia Rui was overjoyed in his heart, and he felt that he had entered the mirror and had a look with Feng Jie Yun Yu, and Feng Jie still sent him out. When I got to the bed, I let out a groan, and as soon as I opened my eyes, the mirror fell from my hand, and there was still a skeleton standing on the opposite side. "Three or four times in and out, until impermanence arrives, Jared is still thinking of bringing him the magic mirror of infinite nipple music when he is dying.
▲ [Qing] Sun Wen's "Dream of the Whole Red Chamber" The twelfth time, "Wang Xifeng poison set up the Acacia Bureau Jia Tianxiang is illuminating the wind and the moon", painted on silk
Collection of Lushun Museum
Whether it is a film and television drama or Sun Wen's "Dream of the Red Chamber", the Fengyue Treasure Book we see from it is the style of "handle mirror". In fact, the traditional Chinese bronze mirror is generally based on the round button as the basic shape, while the handle mirror is a mirror form with Western ancestry.
▲ [Ancient Egypt] The Eighteenth Dynasty "Bronze Handle Mirror of the Goddess Pillar" of the New Kingdom Period, 1540-1296 BC, 38.9 x 20 cm
Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
The ancient Chinese used the mirror method mainly to hang the bronze mirror on the mirror table, in addition, you can also hold the round button on the back of the mirror to take self-portraits. The Western Jin Dynasty painter Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Proverbs" depicts several court ladies grooming in mirrors. The one on the right is taking a self-portrait in the mirror, and the one on the left is facing the vanity mirror table and enjoying the high-level service provided by the hair comber.
▲ [Eastern Jin Dynasty] Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Zhentu" volume (partial), about 400 AD, colored on silk, the whole volume is 348.2 cm in width and 24.8 cm in length
Collection of the British Museum, London, UK
In the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Ben's attention in "The Picture of the Mirror Lady" is no longer the court lady, but the boudoir woman. "Look at the front and back mirrors of the flowers, and the faces of the flowers reflect each other", the graceful style of the small family jasper when she gets up in the morning and dresses up is not inferior to the court at all.
▲ [Qing] Zhu Ben's "Mirror Lady Figure" axis
Color on paper, length 109.9 cm, width 51.6 cm
Collection of the Palace Museum
"After the wind and rain and dusk of the unsteady screen window, I can't forget the new sorrows and old sorrows, I can't swallow the jade grain and the golden lettuce choke on the throat, and I can't see the thin in the diamond mirror." In "Dream of the Red Chamber", in addition to the floor-to-ceiling dressing mirror and the Wind and Moon Treasure Book, there is also a "Diamond Flower Mirror", symbolizing the love between Bao Dai and Bao Dai. The only item Jia Baoyu took with him when he left home was probably this light and heavy diamond mirror, which was his deepest thoughts about Daiyu, but unfortunately, the young style that had been reflected in the mirror had been gently drifted away with the wind. Cloud bun peach blossom, plain hand holding diamond mirror. Chen Hongshou of the Ming Dynasty reproduced for us the female image of Gu Ying holding a rhombus mirror and self-pity in "The Picture of the Lady of the Mirror".
▲ [Ming] Chen Hongshou's "Portrait of a Lady in the Mirror", circa 1636, a figure painting on silk with a coloring pen, 103.5 cm in length and 43.2 cm in width
Collection of Tsinghua University Art Museum
In "Prince Yong's Inscription Hall Deep in the Picture Screen and The Mirror in The Mirror", Yongzheng's favorite concubine is dressed in a fur suit, with one hand on the stove to withstand the cold, the other holding a bronze mirror, and the look of concentration is lonely and self-congratulatory, "but the helplessness of the streamer dark candle room" is deeply locked between the eyebrows.
▲ [Qing] The court painter "Prince Yong Inscription Book Hall Deep Residence Picture Screen , Fur Suit Mirror" axis, silk color, length 184 cm, width 98 cm
When holding a copper mirror, there is a small problem, that is, the round button behind the copper mirror is really not easy to hold, and it is very easy to cause the copper mirror to be broken due to the lack of grasp, so the copper mirror with the handle of the round plate came into being, or "the west mirror comes from the east". So, what did an ancient Chinese mirror with a handle look like? Let's see the real thing next time.