How to Buy Chinese Bronze Imitations - Painted Yanyu Bronze Sun Lantern
Exquisite bronze lanterns
Some people say that the bonfire lit by the primitive people living in the cave should be the first lamp used by the ancestors. Some people say that a torch made of pine branches or reeds was once described in oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions, which is the predecessor of the real "lamp". Of course, more people think that China's real lamps should appear in the Warring States Period. From the appearance, they were inspired and influenced by a food container called "bean". With the use of bronze wares in people's lives, exquisitely crafted bronze lamps have been widely used, and achieved even higher achievements in the Qin and Han Dynasties. The painted yanyu bronze lanterns now collected in the National Museum of China are the most outstanding representatives of them.
The principle of environmental protection two thousand years ago
Most of the previous lamps used grease as fuel. Although they can illuminate, they also produce a lot of oil smoke, which affects the indoor air quality. Why is this bronze lamp said to be environmentally friendly?
This starts with its use method: the goose and the fish are connected by a hollow body. When using it, put water in the belly of the goose, and the smoke generated after the oil is ignited will be collected in the body of the fish. Then it conducts through the neck of the geese, and is finally absorbed by the water in the stomach of the geese, thus ensuring that the indoor air is not polluted by oil fume.
In addition, the design of the two curved lampshades is also very thoughtful. First, the brightness of the indoor light can be adjusted by adjusting the overlapping degree of the two lampshades. When the two lampshades are completely overlapped, the maximum brightness is achieved; secondly, the angle of the light can be adjusted according to the position of the user, only need to rotate The lampshade does not have to move the entire lamp; it can also play a role in blocking the wind. The main components of the painted yanyu bronze lamp are simply connected by the male and female ports, which makes it easier to disassemble, clean and carry.
In fact, this kind of environmentally friendly lamp that can "suck oil fume" has a unified name - "懭 lamp". The "釭" here was not associated with lamps before the Han Dynasty, but was applied to important components on buildings and wheels. Only in the Han Dynasty did the structure of this hollow pipe be applied to lamps. Among the Han Dynasty lanterns known to be unearthed in China, in addition to the shapes of wild goose and fish, there are also shapes of cows, phoenix birds, palace maids, etc. The most famous one is the wife of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, Mancheng County, Hebei Province in 1968. The Changxin Palace lantern unearthed from Dou Wan's tomb.
Do geese really eat fish?
Anyone who sees the bronze lantern with painted wild goose for the first time will be attracted by the way the wild goose opens its mouth and "holds the fish". But do geese really eat fish?
In fact, geese, ducks, swans, etc. belong to the order Anseriformes. Most of their staple foods are aquatic plants, cereals or plant seeds. We can imagine from their flat mouths that they are not good at fishing. Of course, geese and ducks are not completely vegetarian. They sometimes prey on small fish and shrimp, small crustaceans or mollusks, but in any case, they are not like painted geese and bronze scorpions. The goose in the lamp can't wait to open its mouth to 90 degrees to eat such a big fish. Since such a scene cannot be found in nature, it is very likely that the "big wild goose holding a fish" shape was created by the craftsmen at that time according to their own imagination.
Why is it designed this way? It turned out that erecting the body of the fish can just form a shape like a "funnel", which can better collect oil fumes. When craftsmen made this bronze lamp more than 2,000 years ago, they not only maximized the practical functions such as environmental protection and convenience, but also incorporated their imagination from nature, which made us feel a strong artistic atmosphere.
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