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Chapter 1805 Dragonfly Eye Glass Bead
Most of the mirror buttons in the Warring States period were three-stringed buttons.

This type of mirror button started from the Warring States period, went from the Qin Dynasty to the early Western Han Dynasty, and was not replaced by the semi-circular button until the second half of the Western Han Dynasty.

The mountain-shaped design in the mirror is an important mirror style in the Warring States mirrors, and it is also a unique color of the southern state of Chu.

Although Chu mirrors started relatively late, since the middle of the Warring States period, the casting of bronze mirrors in the Southern Chu area has developed rapidly, not only in large numbers, but also in various varieties and exquisite decorations.

The mountain character pattern is the most popular pattern on Chu mirrors. The four-mountain pattern is the most common, followed by the five-mountain pattern, and the three-mountain and six-mountain patterns are relatively rare.

There are different opinions on the origin and meaning of the mountain character pattern. One theory is that the mountain character pattern is both realistic and allegorical. A room of bronze mirrors.

Among the classics, the Warring States Four Mountain Mirror is definitely one of them. The diameter of this bronze mirror is only 11.5cm.

This mirror represents the characteristics of the Warring States period with the three-string button and convex edge, while the one representing the state of Chu is the mountain-shaped pattern.

This mirror is a four-mountain mirror, the thickness of the mirror edge is greater than that of the mirror surface, and there is a smooth and inward concave ring from the mirror edge inward.

Like the three-stringed button, this kind of mirror edge feature also extended to the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, so the difference between the bronze mirrors of the Warring States Period and the early Western Han Dynasty is often judged based on the difference in the pattern.

The square seat is relatively rare at this time. The seat has no ornamentation, and the four corners are decorated with eight-leaf patterns, forming a regular rhythm with the four mountains.

Mirror-casting craftsmen in the state of Chu not only seek changes in the mountain-character pattern, but also often use flower and leaf patterns or animal patterns that are suitable for the mountain-character pattern as auxiliary decorations.

They create a lively and lively scene on the back of the mirror.

There were many varieties of such bronze mirrors in the Warring States period, such as painted mirrors with Sishan characters, and mirrors with chilong patterns.

Although there are many patterns in the decoration of the Warring States bronze mirrors, they can still be divided into several categories.

Such as mountain-shaped mirrors, plain mirrors, animal pattern mirrors, square pattern mirrors, panchi pattern mirrors, feather pattern mirrors, hollow pattern mirrors and other main forms.

The image of the dragon pattern on the bronze mirrors of this period tends to be similar to the panchi pattern popular on the bronze wares of the same period.

Therefore, in the Warring States period, dragon pattern mirrors are generally called panchi pattern mirrors.

Bronze mirrors decorated with panchi patterns are more popular in southern Chu, and are one of the important components of "Chu-style mirrors".

Now that there is a mirror with dragon pattern, there is no shortage of mirrors with other dragon patterns, such as mirrors with double dragon pattern.

The mirror button is in the shape of an arch bridge, with a round button seat and a ring in the middle. The shading combines moiré and lozenge patterns, which are the same as the shading of the main pattern on the outer ring, and form a unified whole.

There is a groove on the outside of the mirror body, and then there is a concave curved body ring.

The outer side is the taller side, and the thin mirror body is also one of the main features of the Warring States bronze mirror.

On the ground pattern of square cirrus clouds, the pattern of deformed dragon is the main pattern.

The double dragons are arranged in the same direction with the button as the center, curled up and looking back, lively and lively.

Similar patterns can be seen in the deformed four-dragon mirrors collected by the Maritime Museum, and the bronze mirrors unearthed from the Gongxingshan Cemetery in Hengyang, Nanhu, and Houjiatang in Husha.

Of course, there are many types of mirrors in the Warring States period, in addition to those regular bronze mirrors, there are also inlaid jade glass mirrors.

This kind of mirror belongs to the middle and late Warring States period. It has no buttons and is replaced by a round blue glaze with a white back-shaped pattern.

Its coat is made of jade rings as button seats.

It is surrounded by inlaid blue glaze, decorated with white eye-shaped or hexagram-shaped patterns, and the outer edge is a jade ring with cable pattern.

This mirror is uniquely decorated, and the mirror surface has been heavily rusted, or it may not be a bronze mirror but some kind of ornament, which needs further study.

Unfortunately, it is said that this mirror was excavated from the ancient tombs of Yangluojin Village that were excavated during the Republic of China. It is generally believed that the tombs were the tombs of the Zhou royal family during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty.

It is 12.2 cm in diameter. The mirror button in the middle of the back is a blue-white concentric circle patterned glass bead, and the mirror button is surrounded by a circle of jade rings.

The outer edge of the jade ring is inlaid with a large glazed ring with blue and white bead-shaped patterns, and the outer edge is inlaid with a jade ring with a twisted silk pattern.

Jingniu glass beads with blue and white concentric circle patterns are generally called dragonfly eye glass beads.

This style of glazed products was introduced from the West and was very popular during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

But it is still relatively rare to use it on bronze mirrors. Another point is that as long as it is an antique from the Warring States period, as long as it has glazed eyes, it will double its value.

It can even be said that as long as there is a glass bead with eyes in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, as long as the cultural relics are connected with it, it will be very valuable.

"Suddenly it doesn't look like water, but a pool of thin glass."

Have you ever seen glass beads with "eyes"?

In Bai Juyi's description in "Cui Shiba Xinchi", Liuli is like fragile and fragile amber.

In fact, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a kind of glass beads with eyes was popular instead.

As long as the cultural relic is inlaid with it, it will be of great value immediately.

Why does Liuli have eyes inlaid?Since ancient times, human beings have prayed for health and happiness.

West Asia and India have the concept of "eyes can ward off evil spirits and turbidity" after human civilization.

Because human beings have eyes, they can see things in front of them, avoid obstacles, and even observe the future.

Over time, people love eyes very much.

In order to express their love for eyes, human beings paint "eyes" on cave walls, buildings, tombs, or wear them as amulets to counteract bad luck.

In 2500 BC, colored glaze appeared in West Asia and Egypt, and was only used by the royal family.

Craftsmen are ingenious, drawing colored glaze into various models, and what's more, drawing eyes on colored glaze.

By the 10th century BC, it became popular to inlay concentric circles of eye-patterned glass beads on colored glass beads.

Because of its structure, which resembles the "compound eyes" of a dragonfly, it is commonly known as "dragonfly eyes".

The Central Plains and West Asia are thousands of miles apart. With the development of history, a large number of nomads and businessmen traveled between the two places.

Glazed dragonfly eyes are beautiful in color and easy to carry around. They are not only amulets for herdsmen, but also commodities that can be used for trading. They have gradually become their "must have mascot".

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, glazed dragonfly eyes flowed into the Central Plains from West Asia via XJ.

After the glass dragonfly eye was introduced to my country, it became popular in the Warring States Period.

The colorful and dazzling West Asia glazed beads are beautiful and precious, and are very popular with princes and nobles.

Where there is demand, there is a market, and the price of glazed beads is getting higher and higher. The artisans of the Central Plains saw business opportunities and began to use local raw materials for imitation.

At that time, the ancients produced "local colored glaze" different from the formula of soda-calcium colored glaze in West Asia, that is, Chinese dragonfly-eye colored glaze beads containing lead and barium.

In order to make colored glaze beads more popular, ingenious craftsmen make colored glaze beads into various shapes.

The patterns of dragonfly eyes also gradually increased, and people even inlaid glazed dragonfly eyes on bronze mirrors, belt hooks, sword handles and other utensils for decoration.

Today, many tombs from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period have been excavated.

The most interesting excavation was the Goujian Sword of King Yue and the Fuchai Sword of King Wu unearthed by archeology, because they both had something on their hilts-inlaid with glazed patterns.

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