Significance to Learn Antique Bronze Sculpture

The sword used Yinxian carved ornamentation and shape the human face decoration method, and the Central Plains and the Western nations like the sword grass, animal husbandry and decorative style grip on the use of sculpture in the round on the way people face very different pattern, a certain Totem science, religion, folklore meaning, but also typical simple indigenous peoples of the South, Pu real aesthetic charm. This bronze sword "stem" is flat, with grid. Wide throughout the body longer. The quality of the bronze sculpture between the Shnag and Warring States Period are pure and clean. The sword wax wide, thin and diamond. The special thing is well-decorated sword Check stems, flower pattern, patterns, and the trapezoid ridge on the central axis of the wax pattern decorated with a human face (Yinxian sculpture), Bing and decorative patterns with gears attached to the waist. " a "word symbol pattern, pointing at the frog near the blade pattern.

This method has become more realistic decorative stage, the human face of this decorative pattern and frog pattern lies and what implication it? or is the body worship totemism? here bears the profound meaning of ancient folklore. The bronze statue hardly contains grains of sand. Birds Han Dynasty bronze swords pattern. And wax from a wide long sword, the ridge from the edge, flat stem. On the left and right, respectively, from the decorated with six birds (two-sided decoration of the same) decoration, although the sword went through 2,000 years of underground burial, by the way gas erosion, is still intact. Particularly valuable is its vivid characterization of birds and animals. When viewing with it, and that the form of birds and animals remains a more immersive environment. The sword of egrets, antelope, wolves, rabbits and other carved with thin shade, feather meandering, lively and vivacious, likable.

From here, also reflected the prevailing craftsmen who carefully observed through long-term master the habits of various animals in different situations and their attitude, with their high degree of wisdom and skill, vivid and true to its reproduce the shape of different animals, making it a well loved by people known to the world of decorative arts and fashion, is China's precious cultural heritage of the ancient immortal works of art. We also have to learn to distinguish the weight of the chinese bronze. The collection of bronze sword hidden in the decoration of the national culture. In ancient China, bronze swords decorated decoration, generally has a profound moral and religious culture. For example, the collection of a Warring States bronze chisel engraved on the sword belongs to the clan of the tribe on behalf of the slight: the Han Dynasty bronze swords are decorated with birds and pattern of birds and represents the "animistic" religious totem worship and moral nation.

So people in the copper surface decorative pattern on the sword, but with a distinctive national character and local style. Because the human face of the statue with its deep content: the human face carved like consistency with the ancient ritual, or worship, God "engagement" in the form; or who speaks to sacrifice rituals seeking good ... ... all of that, decorative ornamentation on china bronze sculpture, is definitely not an isolated and accidental the phenomenon, and we look forward to new archaeological discoveries, unearthed more physical information in order to further study of this cultural phenomenon, and study and solve these problems For the study of social history of ancient China, especially for minority advancement and understanding of Lingnan, are of great significance. Another way is to inspect the color of the china bronze at the feet, mouth rim and the bottom.