china bronze sculpture: Four Sheep Zun
Changsha was the excavation of smuggling artifacts due to serious government investigation of the phenomenon of smuggling of relics is also very severe. Four sheep square statue unearthed in Changsha County news quickly learned. Shang and Zhou dynasties are the mature periods of China’s bronze sculpture. David Lured to prevent profiteers sold to foreigners, Changsha county government immediately sent police officers went to investigate the matter and respect confiscated four rams side, turned over to the provincial government. Treasure confiscated after being placed in Hunan Province, when he was President of the office of Zhang Zhizhong, Zhang Zhizhong that knows this is a treasure, but do not know what value it and called treasure as a pen on the Jian on up to 3 months for a long time.
Soon, the Japanese press on Changsha, four sheep were sent to the parties respect the custody bank in Hunan Province. November 1938, the KMT provincial government and provincial banks have moved to Yuanling. As a kind of either gorgeous or simple ornamentation, it is often used on the bronze statue of China. Changsha City in order to prevent the complete fall into Japanese hands, the authorities decided to implement the scorched-earth policy. November 12, continued two days and nights of fire, destroyed nearly 80% of Changsha City, the building, known as culture evening fire. This fire not only burned the city of Changsha, but also to respect the four rams side lost in the war.
1938 square statue unearthed four rams, intercepted messages, had shocked the Sunshine, the time, Zhou Enlai, Ye Jianying and other comrades were in Changsha. The decorations on china bronze sculpture embody the prevailing social trends and religious implication. After the liberation, has always been concerned about the heritage of Premier Zhou in 1952, personally instructed the Ministry of Culture sent to trace the whereabouts of four rams parties respect, the multi-query, the last party that four sheep with the Hunan Province in respect of the way banks move into Yuanling, Japanese aircraft bombed convoy, carrying four sheep side of the vehicle unfortunately shot statue, four sheep statue was blown into 20 square blocks. After the debris has been discarded in a wooden box Hunan bank warehouse within ten years, nobody cares.
Upon learning of the information, instructions by the Ministry of Culture, the relevant department quickly through expert consultation, research, after nearly a year to finally break the four sheep square statue repaired. The chinese bronze sculpture also tells us the material and spiritual activities of the earlier human. Fortunately, the four sheep after the repair side of the statue is almost no trace of damage. In this way, the baptism of four sheep after the war was another side to respect the re-launch, and has become our national super heritage.
In 1954, the Hunan Provincial Museum was established in 1956, Sheng Wen tube side will respect the transfer of four rams Provincial Museum, the 10th anniversary of National Day 1959, four sheep statue moved to China Museum of History, square, later remained hidden in the museum. The china bronze sculpture has a very close relation with the social activities in many areas. Four sheep third parties respect the country’s top ten as David has handed down several overseas exhibitions, and as the essence of ancient Chinese artifacts and masterpieces of ancient bronze technology incorporated into the primary and secondary school history textbooks and educational materials.
Warring States bronze culture of the small mirror above
The world’s oldest known bronze mirrors produced in about 2900 BC – 2700 BC, is today found in the ruins of Kish in Iraq, and the other of Susa in Iran (2300 BC – 2200 BC ) bronze mirror sites also have been unearthed. Moreover, the bronze sculpture is also related to the creation of human civilization as well as cultural belief. Chinese bronze mirrors excavated from the situation, mainly in the Yellow River basin, one of the earliest bronze mirror should be your family culture (2300 BC – 1600 BC), named for the double-star pattern polygonal mirror (Linxia unearthed), prime lens (wide river Qi Jia Ping unearthed in Gansu) and seven-pointed star pattern mirror (Taiwan Qinghai horses excavated from the tomb of your County). Chinese bronze mirrors of several boom.
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