The Beauty of Bronze--Shandong Museum Trip

It is said that when you come to a city, you have to appreciate its prosperous areas, so as to speculate on the economic development prospects of the city and whether to meet the needs of the heart to play. And in my eyes, to a city, must appreciate its museum. Because the museum is the best embodiment of the city's historical development. China, a country with 5,000 years of history and culture, her such a name from each city's amazing historical discovery. Those y buried in the land of historical relics, with the ancient aesthetic flavor, quietly waiting for future generations to view. We go to the museum, is looking back to the ancient times, savoring the magic and wonder of the ancients.

Stepping through the Shandong Museum, you are bound to be impressed by its broad and grand atmosphere, but what is still amazing is the exquisite exhibits in it: the Buddha's stone on the first floor, the Han portraits on the second floor, and the bronzes on the third floor. These do not represent all the exhibits in the museum, but they are extremely representative. The exhibits are varied and striking, but I was impressed by the fine bronzes.

1. Lift the square tripod

This is a late Shang bronze, is the most beautiful found in Shandong, the same object. The tripod is square in shape, with a kui dragons pattern below the mouth, an animal face pattern with huge eyes on the abdomen, and shaded cicadas patterns on the four feet. This is a general description of the Lufang Ding, but what attracted me most at that time was the animal-face pattern on the abdomen. The image of gazing with huge eyes is clearly the Taotie pattern, which was more popular in the Shang Dynasty. This bronze is not big, but the animal face pattern makes me feel the mysterious and powerful atmosphere of the Shang Dynasty. The merchants respected the taotie motif, the power it contained, and as a symbol of the great historical power accumulated during the barbaric era of blood and fire that mankind must undergo to enter the age of civilization, it gave me an intuitive demonstration of the kind of "fierce beauty" of the Shang Dynasty, which is why this bronze vessel left such a deep impression on me. History is constantly evolving, we can not go back to that intriguing and mysterious era, but we can still use the historical artifacts left by the ancients to explore that era.

2. Kui-footed Copper Tripod

Unlike the Lifting Tripod, the Kui-footed Copper Tripod is a bit smaller, but it still shows the beauty of the history and culture of the Shang Dynasty. Shandong Provincial Museum of this artifact is explained as follows: "the vessel for the straight ear, rectangular mouth, folded rim, square lip, curved belly is very shallow, the bottom of the vessel is curved, four flat feet for kui dragon pattern. Under the mouth of the vessel decorated with taotie pattern, the two sides of the foot of the vessel decorated with kui dragons." From the explanation can be seen that this artifact decorated with kui dragons mostly, and at that time in the viewing, I noticed at once is that the more conspicuous four kui dragons foot. As another popular decoration in the Shang Dynasty, kui dragons often appeared on a variety of bronzes. The taotie is "fierce", and with the kui motif, it emphasizes the unique aesthetic culture of the Shang Dynasty. Kui pattern like a bird, with traces of ancient totems, in my opinion, this is the Shang dynasty on the inheritance of ancient civilization.

The museum in addition to these two I am more impressed with the cultural relics, there is the third floor of the African Wildlife Migration Museum, the second floor of the Han Dynasty carriage, the first floor of the Jade Ruyi ...... these artifacts are the treasures of the museum. Museum trip, harvest a lot, those displayed in the museum of historical relics, not only give people the visual beauty of enjoyment, but also another way to inherit the ancient civilization. Go to a city, appreciate the flowers and water more appreciate the beauty of its civilization, look back at history, care for cultural relics, is now we can do for the forefathers and descendants of the greatest thing.