Chapter 884: Bronze (Page 1/1)

Supreme Treasure and Lu Xiaoyu were fully prepared this time, and they collected all the pots and pans in the palace that they couldn't get. Sure enough, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although all the good things in the Nagisa Palace were smuggled away by the Queen Mother, but there are still some things that can't be taken away, in their eyes, it may be ordinary but has no use value, but it is indeed a very precious cultural relics in modern times.

At this time, ironware was not very popular, and the utensils used in the palace were all bronze, and these bronzes were too heavy for the fleeing queen mother to take away, so they let the Supreme Treasure pick up this leak. Although it seems a little bad to bring these national treasures to the modern era, and to travel to the United States first, but the Supreme Treasure thought about it, these things do not have to be sold to the United States, if you can enter the embassy of the Celestial Empire in the United States, maybe you can contact the government officials of the Celestial Empire to transport these national treasures back to China, and you can also negotiate some conditions with them, such as being able to provide them with some funds, if you can exchange these bronzes and other treasures in the palace for real money, If you can bring it to build a republic, it will help build a lot of things.

The first thing that the Supreme Treasure looks at is a bronze vessel called the moire copper ban, which is forbidden to accept the case of the wine vessel, and its body is supported by copper stems of different thicknesses with multi-layer hollow moire, and twelve dragon-shaped beasts climb around the ban, and the other twelve squat under the ban for the foot. It is the earliest bronze of the era cast by the lost-wax method, and its craftsmanship is intricate and breathtaking.

The second piece is the Wangsun Heyong Bell, its bell body is in the shape of a tile, the bell mouth is large and the dance part is small. There is a Yong, which is an octagonal body, thin at the top and thick at the bottom, and a rectangular spiral worm on the spin. Dry rectangular with rectangular holes. Yongbu is decorated with four groups of banana leaf patterns, there are nine pillars between the seals, and there are pedestal seats under the pieces.

The Wangsun Yong bell is one of a set of chimes. This set of ** 26 pieces, the largest piece of copper weighs more than 300 catties. The smallest piece of copper weighs only five pounds. Twenty-six bells are the same, decreasing in size. Each bell is inscribed with an inscription of 113 characters in the whole inscription, and four pieces are cast together. The inscription is to the effect that Wang Sun Huan cast this bell for the hospitality of the king of Chu, the princes and his father and brother, in order to seek happiness for ten thousand years. The sound of Wang Sun Yong bell is beautiful and pure. According to the sound, the bell has a range of nearly five octaves. The full set of chimes is hung on a bell stand in two tiers, and the lower level is the bass zone, which plays harmony; The upper layer is the treble area, which plays the melody, and the upper layer has seven tones, which can be rotated and transposed. The chimes are the most numerous, the largest, the widest and the best-preserved chimes in the imperial palace, and occupy an important position in the music history of Southern Chu.

The third piece is the ancient Shao music played by the pan flute, which can not only attract phoenix birds. It also made the sage Confucius smell it, and he was so intoxicated that he didn't know the taste of meat in March, and sighed at the perfection. The ancients had many beautiful words about pan flute. Its shape is like the wings of a phoenix, and its voice is like the song of a phoenix. The pan flute is triangular wing-shaped, stony, gray-white, the mouthpiece is flat, there are ten round holes drilled, the lower length decreases in turn, and a raised horizontal belt is engraved in the middle, which is the first in Southern Chu.

The earliest pan flutes are bone, stony, and bamboo. The stone pan flute is made of 13 pipes of different lengths from a single piece of stone, and the thickness of the pipe wall is only one millimeter. This precise arrangement of rhythms and breathtaking workmanship is a testament to the high artistic level of the ancient Celestial Empire more than 2,000 years ago.

"Beitang Book Banknote" has this description of the pan flute: "like the wind wings, such as the wind roaring, its shape is uneven, and the long sound is solemn", Tao Zhuyun: "its image is the wings of the wind, ten pipes are two feet long". Therefore, the pan flute is also known as the uneven and wind flute.

The fourth piece is a set of seven Liedings cast by the lost-wax method, the same decorative arts, arranged in order of size, the largest of which is the Prince Ding. The Dingtong is less than one meter high, the caliber is more than half a meter, extravagant mouth, bundle, bulging belly, flat bottom, three-hoof-shaped feet, there are two extravagant rectangular ears on the edge of the mouth, six dragon-shaped beasts are climbed next to it, and the abdomen is full of embossed climbing dragons and stealing curves, string patterns. There are inscriptions on the inner abdomen and inside the lid. The tripod was a gift from the founding emperor of Southern Chu to his youngest son Xiong Jie, and it was also given to the same one at that time, Xiong Hui, the king of Wuyue, hoping that the two brothers could be brothers and break the gold, but the ending was embarrassing.

Wang Ziding, a total of eight Liding, in order to represent the prince under the identity of the emperor who is under the word, because the bronze is too heavy, the Supreme Treasure only took the largest of them. A copper dagger is taken with the tripod. There are inscriptions on the inner wall and bottom of the vessel. The inscription expresses the expectation of the two princes, and describes some of the principles of life that the first emperor of Southern Chu taught his descendants and what the emperor should understand, it can be said that Xiong Hui and Xiong Jie's competition for the throne has begun since that time, which was formed imperceptibly by their father, so that the two little princes felt that they might become the emperor of Southern Chu and began to kill each other.

The shape of Wang Ziding presents a typical Chu style with a flat-bottomed corseted waist. The six three-dimensional monsters surrounding the belly of the tripod are each made of two dragons curled and coiled, cast separately by the lost wax method, and then welded to the tripod body. The details are decorated with relief, vertical carving, casting, mortise and tenon, welding and other technologies. Graceful shapes, exquisite craftsmanship, and romantic themes, this amazing work more than 2,000 years ago shows the rich and romantic imagination and vivid vitality of the Chu people.

I have to say that the musical instruments in this Zhu Palace are very rich, this is another bronze beast, the main body of the dragon head, the tiger body, the turtle foot, the head with six winding and tangled small dragons to construct the horns, the back of the curved frame stands on the same form of the dragon-shaped running beast. The dragon and phoenix ornaments all over the body are inlaid with emerald green malachite. The buttons on the back and abdomen and the square jacks prove that this pair of mythical beasts is a kind of musical instrument rack.

There is also a red copper portrait pot, with four ring buttons attached to the top of the lid, the pot has a long neck, a bulging belly, a flat bottom, and a high hoop foot. The abdomen is decorated with auxiliary rings on both sides. The whole vessel is inlaid with red copper ornaments, the layout is regular and the layers are clear, and the scene depicted is vivid and changeable.

The shape of the copper kettle has the characteristics of the Central Plains culture, and at the same time, the antler-shaped crown of the phoenix bird, the human-faced god-man, the bird-headed feather man, and the bird-shaped godman can peek into its origin in the Chu cultural relics. This portrait copper kettle, which combines the elements of the original culture and the Chu culture, reflects the combination of the two cultures, which not only reflects the profound influence of the Central Plains culture on the Chu culture, but also shows that the Chu culture integrates its own mysterious and romantic culture and art into it in the process of accepting the Central Plains culture, and shows the romantic artistic conception of the blending of people and gods of the Chu artifact craft, and the elegant and smooth dynamic beauty, so as to show the interaction between the Central Plains culture and the Chu culture.

There are also many utensils, many of which have never been seen before, and they are packed in a big carriage according to a dozen, ready to be identified by modern experts.

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