Speaking of mirrors, everyone is no stranger
It is an essential item in our lives
I don't know if you are curious
What an ancient mirror looked like
At the Jilin Provincial Museum
There is such a unique national treasure
It's the "Khitan octagonal bronze mirror."
This copper mirror is not ordinary
It can be called one of the ten national treasures of the Jilin Provincial Museum
So how was this treasure discovered?
Let's understand its past and present lives
National Treasure Story
In June 1971, a student of the Yonghe Brigade Primary School in Honggangzi Commune, Da'an County, Jilin Province, inadvertently dug up this bronze mirror while working.
This bronze mirror is a bronze work, octagonal in shape, 26 cm in diameter and 0.9 cm thick. The mirror surface is bright and recognizable, and the center of the mirror back is a hemispherical button, which is 1.4 cm high. The inscription of the bronze mirror consists of five lines, read vertically from right to left, to the effect that "time no longer comes, fate is counted by heaven; years are lost, red face and white hair, detached from the net dust, heavenly auspicious people." "We don't know what the owner of the mirror was in at that time, nor do we know what the identity was, but we can feel the owner of the mirror lamenting the brevity of life and the attachment to the beautiful things of the past."
The bronze mirror is engraved with side paragraphs, "Jeju Record Finished Yan Tong" seven Chinese characters. The side section is engraved by the gold man, indicating that this mirror is used by the gold man. "Recorder" is the official position in charge of the clerical work, and The Completed Yan Tong is the name of the Jin people. From the inscription on the bronze mirror, it can be inferred that it belongs to the person "Complete YenTong", whose position at that time was "Jeju Recorder".
The most valuable thing about this Khitan octagonal bronze mirror is the Khitan inscription cast on the back of the mirror. Khitan characters include two kinds of Khitan characters: Khitan characters and Khitan small characters. The characters on this bronze mirror are Khitan small characters. This bronze mirror is a bronze mirror with the largest and most texts in khitan script, which can be called a national treasure and has a very important value for the study of the history of the Liao Dynasty.
The Eight-pointed Bronze Mirror of Khitan Script stored in the Jilin Provincial Museum is a testimony left by history to the present. Through cultural relics, people are encouraged to constantly explore the roots of history and build cultural self-confidence.
Ingenuity
The Song and Liaojin dynasties were a period of great integration of the Chinese nation, and exchanges between various ethnic groups were frequent, and not only were the Han nationalities deeply influenced by ethnic minorities, but the ethnic minorities were also contaminated with strong Han cultural colors in all aspects.
This bronze mirror has two symmetrical sets of patterns around the Khitan script, which are commonly used in the Central Plains. The mirror has a good texture and simple and uniform lines, indicating that the technology of imitation, casting, smelting, and production at that time reached a certain level.
Back 丨 scenery 丨 wen 丨 dedication
1. The Liao Dynasty (916-1125 AD) was a national government established by the Khitans.
In 916, its leader Yelü Abaoji founded the Khitan state, changed the name of the country to Liao in 947, and established the capital of Shangjing LinhuangFu (present-day BalinZuo Banner in Inner Mongolia), which was destroyed by Jin in 1125.
2. Khitan characters include two kinds of Khitan characters: Khitan characters and Khitan small characters. After the establishment of the Khitan Dynasty, in order to meet the needs of politics, economy and culture, the Khitan nation created two scripts with reference to Chinese characters to record the Khitan language. The two Khitan scripts were parallel to Chinese characters in the Liao Dynasty. The Liao dynasty destroyed Jinxing, and the Khitan characters were paralleled with jurchen characters and Chinese characters in the Territory of the Jin Dynasty. In the second year of Ming Chang (1191), Emperor Zhangzong of Jin completed Yan Jingming's decree to abolish the Khitan script, and the Khitan character was gradually eliminated in the territory of the Jin Dynasty, but continued to be used in the Western Liao in Central Asia and the Hezhong region. By the Ming Dynasty, no one knew about it.
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