Bronze forensics: dragon grain mysterious pattern

Dragon pattern is one of the longest decorative patterns in bronze. Dragon is an animal in ancient myths and legends. It is one of the objects of the Yin and Bo question. The dragon's image originated very early, but as a bronze ornament, it was first seen in the Erlioka period of the Shang Dynasty. After the late Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period, and the Warring States period, there were different forms of dragons. The dragon pattern on bronze ware usually reflects the frontal image with the nose as the center line and the two sides standing next to each other. The body extends toward the side of the body. Shang dynasty dragons were mostly in the form of curls. Fang Hao and Fang Dingkou at the beginning of the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty were prevailing in the middle. They divided into two tails, ie, dragons. They also expressed several dragons intertwisting in two weeks. Or, with the head in the middle, divide two ends. Legend has it that the emergence of dragons is related to water. “The Kaogongji· paintings and paintings” said: “The water uses dragons and fires to chant.” It means using the image of a dragon to symbolize the god of water. Therefore, in bronze vessels, dragons are patterned. There are more appearances with stereoscopic images.

This pattern is one of the important decorative patterns on the bronze wares of the Shang Dynasty and the early Western Zhou Dynasty. It represents the legendary side-like image of an animal that resembles a dragon. It is mostly full of horns, mouths, and ends. "Wenwen Wenbu": "Hey, God, too, such as a dragon, one foot." "Shan Hai Jing Great Wilderness East": "An animal is like a cow, but the body without a horn, one foot out of the water will wind, its light Like the sun and the moon, its sound is like thunder and its name is '曰'.” It is the influence of the records of the “scratch and foot” in ancient books. Since the Song Dynasty, all the animal-like decorations on the bronze ware have been described. For "夔". Therefore, there will be more changes in the pattern, and some patterns have been developed into geometric patterns. Common crickets are used as two different, or diagonal, with a dagger at both ends. The enamel pattern is decorated on the mouth and neck of the brass, but some of the deformation patterns are often used as auxiliary patterns for other patterns, or used to fill in the filler. In order to adapt to the vacant area, the image often appears deformed and exaggerated. chance.

蟠虺 pattern, referred to as "虺 pattern". "Mandarin Wu": "For the sake of destroying, for the sake of the serpent." Wei Zhao Note: "The little snake is big; it is the livid or the snake." The ornamentation that is currently called the "crooked pattern" is made up of many The serpentine animals are intertwined with each other and form a geometric pattern, mostly as a main pattern on the artifacts, full of artifacts and the whole body, which is a typical representation of the reticular pattern in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period.

蟠螭 pattern, referred to as "螭 pattern". "Saying the text": "Hey, if the dragon is yellow, the north is called the land." Some ancient books also said that the dragon is a dragon. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the rise of silkworms gradually took a dominant position. The python pattern is a completely graphic ornamentation that no longer carries any mysterious colors. This is undoubtedly a significant change in the development of bronze decoration. There are horns in the pattern, some have no corners, the latter is more, as a mouth, roll tail, embarrassing form, prevalent in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States.