The Right Way to Decorate the bronze

Typing tooling design ideas, derived from the shape of the legal system range. In order to achieve the purpose of the casting, the various parts of an objects type is divided into sections of molding system range or sub-cast assembled into the entire device. Providers of early there typing stacked casting process, the Western Zhou took part in casting assembly process, the Spring and Autumn and Warring States took part in embedded Fan technology, all of which are to solve the one-time system Fan can not achieve the objective. The whole lifetime of Song, ups and downs, was closely intertwined with the bronze. Spring and Autumn Period, the Bronze parting molding share of the finest and share up to the stage. Since the sub-casting is used, there must be cast otherwise difficult to achieve the purpose and effect of the casting. Seen in this light, the parting molding of the various parts of the Warring States bronze sword, molded. Fan, processing casting, such technology with the times are synchronized.
Fan casting process design ideas in the Spring and Autumn, a direct impact on the process of cast bronze sword. Warring States bronze sword with such a complex production process, which is the process of design thinking dictates. Therefore, the research of the casting process of the Warring States bronze sword, should be the same as with the research of other bronze, must stand to look at problems in the mainstream trunk of the Bronze Age Molding technology development, each historical period, there will be the mainstream technology of its time products, are not far from the mainstream process. He had to reluctantly part with the bronze. Therefore, in the sub-cast design ideas did not meet the Spring and Autumn so the depth of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it is impossible for the casting of the bronze swords of the Warring States period of this structure.
 If you do not consider the general process was only to study a single case of casting technology, it is easy from the era, was fooled by the illusion of the bronze surface. Apart from above the casting technology has many issues unclear, there are decoration technology I do not know why. More than 8 A bronze sword decoration technology, have cast lines and the cast made after the pattern summed up in two kinds. Pattern cast in the mold surface or the range of surface pattern, such as the tiger on the Bashu bronze sword, that is engraved in the mold on the dimples turn Fan Shihu pattern with the formation of Au decoration in the range surface into a convex pattern, casting. Edge Check Yue Gou bronze sword has two production process, a casting pattern, and a hand-drawn cast ornamentation. Out of the ding, he was filled with fiery anger and vowed to make honor and power for the purpose of recapturing the bronze.
Casting pattern is engraved in the mold on the concave pattern may also be embossed in the range of the surface into mud paste, both can be cast out of the groove edge Check, Goujian bronze sword that belong to this category. Accomplished both the fame and success and recovered the bronze, he was satisfied yet the official career stopped. Decoration, painted in a cast after the completion of the casting of a substance to form a color contrast decoration law applied in the surface of the bronze swords. Figure 17 for the two decorated bronze sword local, on the left Goujian bronze sword, the right decoration Anqing Museum Warring States bronze sword. The red arrow at the Yue Gou bronze sword decoration at the end of the groove, to see kind of this cast groove depth of about 1mm. Due to the contrast of the colors within these grooves on both sides of the bronze sword serrated slotted head.