Spring is here, and the flowers are in full bloom, making people dizzy
The people of the Song Dynasty carved love flowers into their bone marrow
Combine multiple flowers into a single pot
It is a sunflower-shaped silver cup
❀ "Flowers in flowers" ❀
Look! There's a silver flower on the table
The six petals are stacked on top of each other
This is a hollyhock that was loved by the Song people
△ Silver-shaped sunflower and hollyhock (right). Hollyhock, native to Sichuan, China, is the only ancient Chinese plant named after "Shu", and has been cultivated in China for at least 2,000 years.
△ The Song Dynasty is especially popular with wine people, it is the yellow hollyhock in the malvaceae family, also known as the side calendula.
Each petal also has a hidden mystery:
Lotus, sunflower, plum blossom, peony, pomegranate, peach blossom
Blooms on the edges of different petals
Each flower has its own beauty
Put together, they are connected to each other and complement each other
form an organic whole
△ Sunflower-shaped silver marigold pattern line drawing
There is a six-petaled flower in the heart of the pot, and the stamen is high and convex
The lower end is cylindrical, and there is a round stamen in the middle
The underbelly of the stamen is a persimmon-shaped petal with six petals
The flowers on the inner bottom of the bowl are gilded
It is really a "golden flower and silver cup"
△ Kwai shaped silver line drawing
A small lamp is "full of flowers"
It can really be described as "a flower of flowers"
❀ With flowers as the lamp, the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty people are absolutely amazing ❀
The people of the Song Dynasty carved "love flowers" into their bones
Flowers are inseparable from life everywhere
Not only flower arrangement is one of the four great things
They also make the utensils they use every day into the shape of flowers
△ Chrysanthemum gold bowl (left), unearthed from the Song Dynasty gold and silver cellar on Pengzhou West Street, and collected by Pengzhou Museum. The inspiration for the golden chrysanthemum may have come from the Southern Song Dynasty album "Cong Ju Flying Butterflies" in the Forbidden City, which was painted by Zhu Shaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, with cong chrysanthemums in full bloom and butterflies flying.
These gold and silver objects are mainly patterned with flowers and birds
The theme is almost all the animals and plants that symbolize good fortune
The ornamental layout is painted according to the instrument
It broke through the single group flower model of the Tang Dynasty
The hammering technique has also been used more skillfully
Many artifacts with a high relief effect appear
△ Leaf-shaped silver saucer, unearthed from the Song Dynasty gold and silver cellar on Pengzhou West Street, and collected by Pengzhou Museum.
The different shapes of utensils and floral ornaments are cleverly matched
will be elegant aesthetic style
Infused with the elegance and delicacy of gold and silverware
△ Huakou silver plate, unearthed from the Song Dynasty gold and silver cellar on Pengzhou West Street, and collected by Pengzhou Museum.
❀The story behind "The First Cellar of Gold and Silverware in the Song Dynasty" ❀
Including the sunflower-shaped silver cup
27 pieces of gold and 316 pieces of silver
In 1993, the gold and silver ware cellar on West Street in Pengzhou City was unearthed
Among them, 115 pieces of gold and silver objects were rated as first-class cultural relics
It can be called "the first cellar of gold and silver in China's Song Dynasty"
(Archaeologically, because of wars and disasters, the ancients deliberately hid treasures and artifacts, also known as "cellars")
△ Some cultural relics of the Song Dynasty gold and silver cellar on Pengzhou West Street.
According to the inscription on the gold and silverware
Experts deduced the owners of these gold and silver objects
It is a family surnamed Dong in Pengzhou City in the Song Dynasty
△ The inscription on some gold and silver ware in the Song Dynasty gold and silver cellar on Pengzhou West Street.
Since the 50s of the last century
Nearly 100 cellars of the Song Dynasty have been found in various parts of Sichuan
The artifacts in the cellar are in addition to gold and silverware
There are also bronzes, porcelain, cultural toys, silver collars, and copper coins
Nearly 500 pieces of gold and silver wares have been found in the Sichuan cellar
It accounts for about half of the gold and silver artifacts unearthed in the Song Dynasty in China
△ Phoenix bird pattern silver note, Pengzhou West Street Song Dynasty gold and silver cellar unearthed, Pengzhou Museum collection.
Experts have found that these cellars have some common characteristics:
(1) Burial age: Most of them are concentrated in the period from the Jiading period of Ningzong of the Southern Song Dynasty to the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty
(2) Distribution: Most of them were former administrative centers or military towns
Originally, in the third year of Duanping in the Southern Song Dynasty (1236 AD)
The Mongol army was divided into three routes, of which the western route attacked Sichuan
When the war is in chaos
The people buried their valuable belongings one after another
This is the main reason for the concentrated appearance of cellars in Sichuan in the Song Dynasty
More than 800 years later
Song Dynasty gold and silver ware, including sunflower-shaped silver cups
Witnessed the prosperity of the Song Dynasty
It also left the imprint of that period of history and civilization
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