To paint or do realistic, I have not seen it, it must be "drawing a tiger according to a cat". Before, I really had never seen the "tiger drawing a tiger with a cat" to what extent it was "humorous", but when I visited Nijo Castle in Kyoto, I saw the "Tiger Picture" drawn on their partition, and I really saw what is called "Drawing a Tiger according to a Cat". There are no tigers in Japan, and it is said that they have only imported two tiger skins, and the tigers are drawn like this, like a cat with a serious disease of cartilage.
Kyoto Nijo Castle Ninomaru in the partition painting of the tiger, like a cartilage serious disease cat?
The National Museum of Ancient Chinese Qin and Han has a bronze rhinoceros with a wrong gold and silver cloud pattern, which is vivid. The craftsman who made this work must have seen, or even observed, a real rhinoceros.
Rhinos, currently only live in South Asia and Africa, there are certainly no wild rhinos in our country. But in ancient times, it may be different, rhinos and elephants appeared in large numbers in the Central Plains. Henan's abbreviation "Yu" means that a person leads an elephant; and the Sanxingdui and Jinsha in Sichuan have unearthed piles of ivory. Rhinoceros is the same, Zhejiang Yuyao Hemudu Neolithic site has unearthed rhino bones, Henan Anyang Yin Ruins also unearthed rhino bones, oracle bones record that the Shang King Wuding hunted 71 rhinos at a time.
Let's take a look at this ultra-realistic rhinoceros figure.
Zun is an ancient wine vessel. Ancient people were very accustomed to making animal images into wine statues, such as the familiar Owl Zun and Bird Zun.
This "rhinoceros" stands tall, rhinoceros horns upwards, and the small eyes that are recessed are full of energy. It has muscular limbs and strong muscles. As a wine vessel, it has a hollow abdomen and a stream around its mouth. The tail is bent into a hook, when pouring wine, buckle the hook, with the help of the principle of leverage, with the hooves as the fulcrum, pry the body, the wine is poured out of the flow pipe next to the mouth. The small lid on the back is the entrance to the container, and it resembles the rucksack of a rhinoceros.
The craftsmanship of this zun is wrong gold and silver. Wrong gold and silver mainly include two decorative techniques of inlaying and painting, and their craftsmanship is very precise and meticulous, which is used to decorate bronze and will add a sense of beauty to the utensils.
This rhinoceros is definitely a hyper-realistic work, how can a craftsman who has never seen a real rhinoceros?
The rhino has two rhino horns on its head, small ears, stout limbs and a strong body. Although it is a bronze piece, the texture is very good, is it not considered to be "thick skin and thick flesh". It is hollow, and the one on the back is a lid that can be opened.
The hole under its nostrils is a stream that allows you to pour wine. Look at its neck, there are many wrinkles, and the small eyes are inlaid with black beads. Gold and silver wire is embedded in the skin of the rhinoceros, making the rhino very "flowery" and very shiny.
This small tail on its huge ass, the craftsman gave it a practical use: when pouring wine, buckle the hook, with the help of the principle of leverage, with the hooves as the fulcrum, pry the body, the wine poured out of the flow pipe next to the mouth. Otherwise, filling the wine with this volume, plus the weight of the bronze itself, it is a hard job to lift up and pour the wine.
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