Careful observation of bronze statue drums

Tonggu Chien surface, things are different.

As a bronze sculpture weighing equipment, drums because of huge body, but rare in private collections, and with the collection heats up, drums and gradually began to be valued by collectors from various quarters.

bronze drum unearthed in Hainan is known to Changjiang Li Autonomous County in October of the Han Dynasty unearthed in North Town, drums for the volume flow greatest, now hidden in the Provincial Museum. In addition, two provincial museums also face high Tibet Han Dynasty unearthed in north county flow drums, smaller size.

U.S. grain in the sun

Drums of the United States, the United States in the drumhead decoration. Many collectors drums, with rubbings of the way, set a Thousand Faces drums into a book, for appreciation of the development process of drums.

Reporters saw at the Provincial Museum, Changjiang Han Dynasty unearthed drums, surface diameter of 100 cm, waist circumference of 270 cm, placed in separate showcase.

Careful observation of bronze statue drums, see drum stand cast four frogs, frog length 3.7 cm, 2 cm high, three stand counterclockwise, a clockwise standing, so drum full of changes, three-dimensional enhancement.

The drums of the drum the middle of the sun cast eight Mans stripes, from the center outward, casting multi-turn Xianwen, form a halo. Adjacent to the showcase of the North Han Dynasty unearthed in temporary high flow drums, also has a sun decoration.

According to the Provincial Museum Hill Gang, this body and the light from the light pattern is composed of the sun on the drums first appeared in the most basic decorative patterns, the most important decoration is the drum, the most striking pattern is the only throughout history has always been the drums patterns.

Hill just said, the sun was originally a chinese bronze drum casting pattern of scars left behind the mouth, after repeated grinding round cake decorated as a prominent form of body art ethnic ancestors of its processing, combined with sun worship, culminating in the The basic concept of the sun pattern and meaning.

Some scholars believe that the sun is not only the drums all the ornamentation pattern of the center and center of gravity, but also drums as musical instruments, ritual and power control of the most important worship, faith and cultural significance of the logo. Sun pattern is designed to process drums home the first step, any changes on the shape drums, must first cause pattern of change in the sun, the sun lines occupy the leading drumhead and other decoration is just the natural expression pattern of sun worship nothing.

Currently, the academic community generally agree that the ancient bronze dragon drum in 1980, Colloquium on the standard device of the type of land divided into eight famous drums sub-law, that Wanjiaba type Shizhaishan type, cold water type, Zunyi type, Ma river type, flow north, Mountain type, West Union type.

Eight types of drums are the general characteristics of whole body copper, flat curved waist, one a face, in the empty bottom, side with four ears, beautiful shape, ornamentation changes.