"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and the Present". Today, I will take you to the Jiujiang De'an County Museum to see a Song Dynasty bronze with a rice pattern, so what does this rice pattern mean?
This rice character pattern Song Dynasty aromatherapy furnace, its decoration is hollowed, from the front, you can see a deformed rice character.
Li Jia, a librarian of Jiujiang De'an County Museum, introduced that this is a relatively common ordinary aromatherapy stove, which is designed with an arc at the bottom of the inner bottom, which not only makes the incense burn more smoothly when using incense, but also facilitates the incense ash to settle to the bottom. Usually, such an aromatherapy stove is used more when smoking clothes.
This incense burner was unearthed from a cellar, and at that time there were also unearthed flower goose, bronze mustaches, bronze mirrors, large incense burners and other utensils, and most of the utensils have rice character patterns on them. So, is this rice character pattern related to the person surnamed Mi, or is this kind of pattern a unique pattern on the bronzes of the Song Dynasty?
Li Jia introduced that the rice character pattern is a specific pattern form, and this whole batch is an imitation of Shang Dynasty bronzes in the Song Dynasty. Many people wonder why the Song Dynasty copied the bronzes of the Shang Dynasty, because the bronzes symbolized power and status in ancient times, and the Song Dynasty prospered economically, and those in power aspired to the culture of the previous dynasties, especially the Shang Dynasty, as a way to satisfy their interests.
At that time, people believed that painting rice patterns on the sacrificial bronzes was a symbol of wealth, so we would see such a batch of Song Dynasty bronzes with rice patterns.