bronze statue in Southwest China

Looking inside the four corners were a bear. Compartments on both sides of the other tigers and birds. Decorated with four small wheels on the two tigers. In the production process, the most prominent are the invention and applications of the bronze sculpture. The car decoration image fourteen kinds of animals can be active parts of the fifteen, novel design, exquisite exquisite casting. Across the country found that only this one is a bit rare treasure, now collected in Shanxi Institute of Archaeology. Imagination of our ancestors and show great skill manufacturing level, and fully reflects the height of bronze culture in Shanxi prosperity.

In 711 BC, secluded in the Quan Rong Zhou killed. Zhou declared demise. Thus the arrival of Spring and Autumn Period, Chinese people's thinking has undergone a tremendous change. This period. In people's thinking around more active than ever, people began to wake up this idea, philosophers rise of theocratic rule was replaced by the patriarchal ritual. The common skills of the bronze statue are gold-silver-inlaid, embedded copper, gold-silver-overlaid and other methods. Bronze also will change. Mainly as follows: to reduce the mysterious animal ornamentation, Li Ning ferocious style of play down. Eventually, human glory gradually reflect it. Jin, Spring and Autumn Period is a political, economic, and military are more developed vassal state. A late Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn.

Period, with the powerful Jin, bronze culture by leaps and bounds. Shanxi bronze casting reached its peak at this time, and gradually formed a style Jin, Birds of bronze showing a lot of new features, bronze casting at that time have a greater impact. White mid-1950s, archaeologists have excavated more than a thousand in Shanxi and the tombs at the site, unearthed a large number of fine bronze. Given long history and numerous varieties of chinese bronze sculpture, they are famous in the world. Bronze decoration style and features. With the development of different, according to these different styles, we can be divided into: early spring, late spring, early Warring States Period, Warring States in the late four.

Early Spring: The period of Shanxi bronze, sleek exotic, elegant decoration and smooth. To worship and ritual bronzes to have almost no features. There are more weapons, eating utensils. Bronze began gradually to daily life developments in the field. Bronze decoration, except a small amount of re-ring pattern, the pattern and the coil snake coil Chi pattern began to slip. Arts and technology for development. The classification aims to distinguish more clearly the nature and usage of china bronze sculpture. Widely used impression method. Taotie not occupy the prominent parts of the abdomen and other objects, but the root down to the foot, such as secondary Fuer or until the first shop. Decoration, mostly single, rarely shading to zonal Pan Chi pattern, birds pattern, Jomon, mostly shell pattern.

One typical decoration is the giant tiger mouth dragon wings. Continuous pattern prevalent at this time. Animal mask in ornamentation, often with Kuilong, Kui Fung and other animals entangled with each other, biting each other, end to end to form ring patterns. Such decoration objects often appear in the shoulder and neck. This action is to facilitate the study, appreciation and collection of the bronze sculpture. After the mid-emergence of iron bronze began to decline. With the technology of smelting iron Xingda, sharp carving tools came into being. Bronze casting process is more advanced, many new T-arts techniques. For example, gold and silver inlay, including gold and silver, gilt, carved so thin thread. The ceremony Disintegration also verified week one thousand toward the former position no longer exists.