Luoyang as the home of bronze sculpture

The early Republic, one of Luoyang Eastern Zhou Wangling gold village hill, suffered a serious excavation, including a large number of foreign missionaries, including the Tomb, stolen from here a large number of bronze. These bronze with more than Mangshan body temperature and pain, and more are grazing territory, and now also lying on the U.S., the UK's museums.

There is a saying 'the clouds away, not take away the hearts of the soul ", Luoyang as the home of bronze sculpture, its root is always here. In 1975, the summer capital Yanshi Erlitou site, unearthed a bronze, which is the famous "Milk Hobnail Jazz": high 22 cm, length 28 cm, which is the Xia Dynasty bronze, is by far the earliest discovered bronze, Fitch said "the world first MG." The Jazz waist flat, narrow Jazz stream, flow off at the two small columns, three-legged slender, belly side prescribe Xianwen, during which milk is decorated with five nails, simple shapes, units of cultural relics are hidden in Yanshi .

Luoyang is not only unearthed the earliest history of bronze statue, copper also has the largest site of Western Zhou Dynasty. Back in the 1970s, the city workers discovered the Western Zhou Dynasty relics North kiln bronze sites. According to the ancestral home of Mr. Li Jianmin here say, is divided into the northern kiln kiln, the kiln, under the kiln, into each village, the site ranked near the kiln, what about 700 meters north-south width of 300 meters, covers an area of ??great . After research, the site began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Department of the Western Zhou bronze imperial clan base. The discovery of the ruins, the study of the early Western Zhou chinese bronze casting process provides a reliable kind of information.

Bronze culture has a long history, with a poetic concept of culture - "Bronze Age" has left people with endless reverie. Luoyang Institute of Ancient Art in Ding Li Jiaqi said: We usually see a small amount of bronze dragon, but bronze in several flower ocean waves, and in the bronze culture behind it stood a brilliant "Bronze Age" and its history span a long, conservative estimates have started from the Shang and Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties until, at about two thousand years, the clever integration of fire and bronze, for the Chinese culture to create a beautiful mask, it is so bold and rich texture , let us each one bronze are truly touch history.

Every piece of unearthed bronze is a living history book pages, put them together later, is "a living history book", and Luoyang from the Xia Dynasty started is a hotbed of bronze, the royal family and nobility in the use of a large number of bronze tools Luoyang and bronze ritual vessels, bronze from the city witnessed the development of all mature to a brilliant course.

Mr. Li Jiaqi pointing to a copy of "Animal Mask Fang Ding," said: Look! Ding this side of the original 1977 kiln excavated in the North, 33.5 cm high, 28.5 cm long mouth wide and 22.7 cm, are the works of the early Western Zhou Dynasty, Ning tableware, rectangular, slightly oblique abdominal straight, four-post foot, belly Siyu enough with the upper walls and columns are the middle ridge, the walls are decorated with horns Animal Mask, each side of a stand Kuilong, looking very solemn.

Bronzes unearthed in Luoyang, a very complete type, in which the tripod is up. Ding, equivalent to the current pot, for cooking or holding of fish used, mostly round belly, ears, three-legged, there are four feet square tripod, the tripod is a high-profile ritual of weighing machine, a symbol of country the boat.

In the bronze drinking device, the Jazz the most common, mentioned above, the "Jue nipple pattern" is such a drinking device, the equivalent of future generations of glass, round belly, before pouring with the flow, after the tail, next to the a handle, the mouth has two columns, there are three sharp pupil; goblet for the long body, the end was horn; goblet for the round belly, ring foot, the shape of the vial, mostly covered. Second, Sheng wine, this wine is to reconcile the ancient apparatus, generally deep round mouth, covered, before flow, after the handle, there are three feet or four feet, between the chain cover and Pan connected, common well-Yi, there warm wine, take the wine, water containers, etc.

Mr. Li Jiaqi said: Yanshi Erlitou unearthed "nipple pattern Jue," the wall is very thin, very difficult to make, and the summer people can escape from doing so good, really great. Kind of process, even by the present technology, a cast is not very high success rate, see Luoyang ancestors 4,000 years ago, and its production process and the smelting of bronze casting levels are very high. So, to say the home of Luoyang is sculpture in bronze, not a bit exaggerated.

There is a saying called "copper production Xuzhou, the Luoyang work", which the ancients summed up the experience, meaning that although there Xuzhou bronze materials, but these materials must be transported to Luoyang, in order to be made of fine bronze, because the most advanced workshops, artisans, crafts, are concentrated in the Luoyang, the city has been brilliant wore bronze rings, the category of the whole process of the essence, so that future generations are often amazed. From the category point of view, Luoyang, ancient bronzes involving political, military, religious, economic, transportation, decoration, household appliances and other aspects of life, is simply a colorful, beautiful - For details, see next.