China News Service, Harbin, September 25th (Song Tianning reporter Liu Xiju) On the 25th, "Bronze as a Lesson to Follow—The Song and Jin Bronze Mirror Exhibition from the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum" was launched at the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum.
More than 40 bronze mirrors from the Song and Jin periods are displayed in this exhibition.
These bronze mirrors are the most intuitive and important materials for studying the production and life of Jurchens in the Jin Dynasty.
exhibition site.
Photo by Liu Xiju
Bronze mirrors, also known as "bronze mirrors", are generally cast from bronze with a high tin content.
Bronze mirror decorations have distinctive characteristics of the times: in Song Dynasty, in addition to round, square, sunflower, and rhombus mirrors, there were also mirrors with handles, rectangles, chicken hearts, shields, bells, tripods and other styles. There are many bronze mirrors decorated with flowers and plants, birds and beasts, landscapes, bridges, terraces and character stories. There are even plain mirrors, mirrors with small buttons on the narrow side and no patterns, which have a strong breath of life.
These bronze mirrors are the most intuitive and important materials for studying the production and life of Jurchens in the Jin Dynasty.
Photo by Liu Xiju
In 1115 AD, Wanyan Aguda, a Jurchen person, established the Jin Dynasty. In order to consolidate the regime and improve the quality of the nation, the Jurchen rulers not only created the Jurchen script, but also actively absorbed the Han culture, which enabled the Central Plains culture to flourish in the Jinyuan hinterland. One of the specific manifestations.
More than 40 bronze mirrors from the Song and Jin periods are displayed in this exhibition.
Photo by Liu Xiju
"Common bronze mirrors in the Jin Dynasty include double fish mirrors, character story mirrors, panlong mirrors, Rui Beast mirrors, Rui Hua mirrors, etc. The bronze mirrors of the Jin Dynasty are extremely strict. Bronze mirrors are generally cast by the government, and the back edge of the mirror is engraved with inspection bureau The name, this is the most important feature of the bronze mirror in the Jin Dynasty." The staff of the exhibition hall introduced.
This exhibition exhibited more than 40 bronze mirrors during the Song and Jin Dynasties. The purpose of this exhibition is to let visitors from the North and the South understand that in addition to the long-term war friction between the northern minorities and the central plains, there was also a phenomenon of ethnic integration. This has also promoted political, economic and cultural exchanges and collisions.
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