Thriving Social Factors of the bronze

Tang Dynasty bronze mirror in shape, broke through the Han-style mirrors, to create a variety of reading glasses, such as sunflower mirror Linghua mirror, square Asian-shaped mirror, and so on. In addition to the traditional auspicious animals, birds, animals, portraits, inscriptions and other decorations, the pattern also increased the performance of the Marine Mammals of the Western theme of grapes pattern, playing polo pattern of performance in real life. Decoration and the overall layout of the Tang Dynasty bronze mirror, also broke the previous program specification. The decorations on the bronze embody the prevailing social trends and religious implication.  The composition of bronze mirror surround, and symmetrical performance practices, but the layout is fresh and clear, smooth and gorgeous, free-spirited, especially in high-relief techniques, plenty of angry, soft and natural.
       Chinese mirror, Tang Dynasty, following another peak in the Han Dynasty, exquisite craft, the numerous forms of the patterns of the rich, beyond the first generation of amazing achievements. The bronze also tells us the material and spiritual activities of the earlier human. Bronze mirror is made of copper tin alloy casting Tang Dynasty in the copper compound to increase the proportion of tin is white and the color of the copper material such as silver, made of bronze mirror green, glistening, smooth and shining mirror, a qualitative pure high spirits of the material beauty in the Tang Dynasty bronze mirror in the casting process is also quite innovative, appeared off Jinyin Ping, special arts and crafts mirror inlaid with mother, laced with gold and silver. the shape of the bronze mirror also broke the traditional circular format, creating a variety of fancy mirror, Po-phase glasses.
 The Linghua mirror, eight prism, eight arc mirror, artistic mirror of the Quartet Committee angle and sessile New York handle mirror bronze mirror on the back of pattern layout is also beneficial to see ingenuity, a reversal from the mirror button to the edge of the concentric layers of the way of the layout, multi-use scatter or appropriate forms of tricks, concise and crisp, clear and smooth pattern of subject matter is varied, flowers, birds, fish and insects, strange birds and animals, myths and legends, historical stories, religion and social life, frequent international exchanges in the Tang Dynasty bronze mirror the pattern also reflects the content of this field from a side note, the Tang Dynasty, foreign culture inclusive attitude, but also to promote the prosperity of the Tang culture. The Chinese bronze has a very close relation with the social activities in many areas.
Tang Dynasty bronze mirror is prosperous because: First, in the Tang Dynasty to the formation of social habits as a gift and a gift of a bronze mirror, Tang Jing except as face to face, but also as the Jin Xianhuang on each other gifts souvenirs , or the emperor the reward Baiguan the gift. According to legend, the Tang period, set August 5th birthday of the reign. The "Chiaki section, also known as the" future gold Kam section. Moreover, the bronzeis also related to the creation of human civilization as well as cultural belief.  On this day, the ministers offered Gan Loushou wine, and exquisite bronze mirror as a birthday or give each other gifts. Such activities played a role in fueling the production of bronze mirrors and flourished. This makes Tangjing to not only have practical significance, more spiritual, aesthetic and social significance of this is Tangjing thriving social factors.
Second, due to the emergence and wide application of the porcelain, bronze production increasingly fading traditional metalworking technologies focused on the production of bronze mirrors, which is its historical and technological factors. As a totem, the bronze is a natural image and more is animal image.  The interaction of these factors, making the bronze mirror known as an important arts and crafts of the characteristics of the times, and formed a decorated Tang Jing, the production of elegant, colorful and unique style. Tang Jing in China's position in the history of arts and crafts can not be replaced, the following describes a few pieces of exquisite Tang Dynasty bronze mirror appreciation and analysis.