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Chapter 1790 Never Fade Gorgeous

The craft of hammering seems to be very simple, isn't it just smashing with a hammer?

However, this is the foundation of gold and silverware craftsmanship. After gold and silver are refined by hammering, they show their unique charm.

In ancient times, women often bought various jewelry for themselves for the sake of beauty.

Whether it is worn on the head or on the hand, it has its unique beauty.

Of course, in order to show their extravagance, many women choose gold and silver products, which are not only durable, but also have a different beauty over time.

In the craftsmanship of jewelry they wear, a technique is often used, that is, hammering.

Hammering is one of the main processes of traditional gold and silver processing. The main production process is to apply pressure to the blank to deform it to the desired shape.

A series of actions of beating and tapping are repeated until the shape and decoration of the vessel are formed.

It makes metal get rid of the cold exterior and adds a humanistic temperature.

Among the many foreign crafts of jewelry making, the hammering craft has the greatest influence on the processing of gold and silver jewelry in my country.

The hammering process first appeared in West Asia in 2000 BC. At that time, people in West Asia had already used it in the production of gold and silverware in large quantities.

Later, with the continuous deepening of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries in the Tang Dynasty, businessmen and craftsmen from West Asia came to China one after another. While they brought a large number of goods, they also brought a lot of craftsmanship of gold and silverware.

Due to the good ductility of gold and silver tools, hammering them into shapes can better reflect the beauty of gold and silver products, so this technology has been widely used.

Among the gold and silver women's jewelry of the Tang Dynasty unearthed later, many of them were hammered into shape, which shows its great influence.

Items manufactured by the hammering method consume less material than casting, and do not require the division of labor and cooperation of multiple people, and can be operated independently.

Therefore, it is very popular in the production of gold and silver, which is soft and very precious.

Hammering is one of the commonly used methods in gold and silverware molding, but it is also a hard job and requires patience.

First, heat the smelted and purified gold and silver;

Hit it with a hammer to stretch it out to form a gold sheet of a certain thickness;

Then, it is a long and trivial process to make it into the required simple shape.

The ancients used hammering technology to make a lot of women's jewelry, such as earrings, armlets, bracelets and so on.

Some complex utensils can also be made by hammering.

For example, a bottle with a large mouth and lower belly is generally divided into upper and lower parts and hammered, or it can be divided into several parts and hammered, and finally the parts are welded together and polished smooth.

The hammering method is also commonly used in the production of gold and silver decorations, such as a golden bowl decorated with lotus petals.

This requires hammering out the basic shape of the utensil in the first step, and then hammering out the double-layer lotus petal shape from the inside to the outside.

Make the lotus petals protrude from the inner wall of the bowl to the outer wall, forming the effect of concave and convex, and then carve patterns on the outline of the convex lotus petals.

When hammering the shape or pattern of the utensil, it is also necessary to line it with a hard bottom mold that has been hammered in advance, so that the gold and silver pieces can be formed faster when hammering, which is called "die punching".

In fact, the process of hammering is easy to say.

But many things are like this, the simpler the process, the more difficult it is actually.

In this hammering and hammering, this kind of concentration is beyond the comprehension of others.

It is precisely because of this that amidst many uncertainties, so many exquisite handicrafts have been created.

For example, this kind of craftsmanship reached a peak in the Tang Dynasty, and ordinary people should know the golden bowl best.

The gold and silver wares of the Tang Dynasty are rich in varieties, graceful and changeable in shape and pattern, which make people endlessly read and read, but they also have a consistent character.

So what kind of top technology has achieved this extraordinary?
In 1970, a gold-plated parrot-patterned jar with a beam and lid was unearthed in the cellar of Hejia Village in the southern suburbs of Chang'an, Xi'an.

The body of this tank and the bottom ring foot of the covered bowl are connected by welding. The whole body is decorated with parrot patterns and gold-plated patterns of broken branches. The handle can be rotated freely, which combines beauty and practicality.

Through the dignified and gorgeous appearance, we can get a glimpse of various crafts such as gilding, chisel carving, and welding in the Tang Dynasty.

However, there is a craft that is often not thought of by people. It is the basis of all carving and painting. Without it, all crafts will be as ethereal as the moon in the water.

This is hammering (yè), from which we can see what is called "golden carved double phoenix back", which is a kind of gorgeousness that will never fade.

Among them, your most classic should be the Tang Dynasty Siluan titled ribbon gold and silver flat off the mirror, which was unearthed in Changlepo Village, the eastern suburb of Chang'an, Xishan.

There are three blooming anemones outside the round mirror button, surrounded by anemone leaves.

A circle of golden silk knots separates the inside and the outside, and four golden luan birds are flying around the outer circle, holding gold ribbons in their mouths, elegant and free.

Its diameter is about 22 cm, which is slightly smaller than the Tang Dynasty gold and silver octagonal mirror with flat backs in the Neon Zhengcangyuan Collection.

However, the "hair carving" technique is used on the wings of the luan bird, so that the feathers can be clearly presented and more three-dimensional and vivid.

The black lacquer ground sets off the golden luan bird, and the color contrast is sharp, and it has not fallen off so far, which shows that the Tang Dynasty's lacquer painting and gold and silver hammering techniques are both excellent.

Now we generally beat gold and silver ingots into various shapes, which is called hammering, also known as hammering or mallet.

To beat is to beat.

Squeeze to make thin slices.

In Liu An's "Huainanzi Shuoshan Xun" in the Western Han Dynasty, there is a sentence "揲挻 (shn) its soil is not thick", and it is annotated as "a thin metal sheet".

There were quite a few pieces of this kind of gold ornaments in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Archaeological discoveries include the gold-coated copper tiger unearthed from the Fuhao Tomb at the Yin Ruins in Anyang, Nanhe, the Shang Dynasty sun god bird gold ornaments unearthed from the Jinsha Site in Chuandu, and the Sanxingdui Site in the Han Dynasty. The Shang Dynasty gold-coated bronze statues, gold-faced fish-shaped ornaments, etc.

Beating sounds hard to understand, but translated in folk spoken language, it is "beating".

And the combination with this kind of craft, or the peak application of this kind of craft, also emerged in endlessly in ancient my country.

For example, the representative work of national treasure-level hand-made hammer patterns, the Western Han Golden Beast weighing 9100 grams, is definitely the pinnacle of it.

The beauty of the national treasure, through ancient and modern times, is used to carry the Tao, and it is magnificent.

Behind each rare cultural relic is the ingenuity and wisdom of the ancients, engraved with the cultural genes of the Chinese nation, and witnessing the exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.

This golden beast of the Western Han Dynasty can smash the pride of the little devil to the ground.

Because it involves hammer pattern, also known as hammer pattern, which is a decorative technique between texture and ornamentation.

But when it comes to hammer pattern, everyone subconsciously knows that it is a common texture on neon metal objects.

And everyone thinks that hammer pattern is one of the unique traditional handicrafts of neon, is that true?Actually not.

In fact, the hammer pattern originated from the processing of gold, silver and bronze wares in my country.

This can be seen from a representative work of national treasure-level hammer pattern craftsmanship - the Golden Beast of the Western Han Dynasty.

It is one of the national treasures of Jinling Museum, and it is also the heaviest piece of gold found in archaeology in my country.

It is also the product of the perfect combination of ancient metal casting technology and gold hammering technology.

The markings all over its body are uniform in size and irregular in circle shape, which were purposely hammered on with tools after the whole body was cast.

(End of this chapter)