This Western Han Dynasty gold beast is a representative work of gold making craftsmanship in the Han Dynasty. It was unearthed in 1982 in Nanyaozhuang Cellar, Xuyi County, Sujiang Province.

The golden beast in the Western Han Dynasty was in the shape of a leopard and curled up. The leopard head rested on the front legs and wore a three-wheeled collar on its neck.

It has a ring of buttons on the top of its head, and the hammer is decorated with round markings.

The height is 10.2 cm, the body length is 16 cm, the body width is 17.8 cm, and the weight is 9100 grams.

This golden beast has a gold content of 99%, with a fasting, thick wall, and cast and formed.

Based on the appearance characteristics, it is speculated that the casting era of the golden beast was from the late Warring States Period to the early Western Han Dynasty.

As a texture with a very decorative effect, hammer-patterned copper plate is loved by high-end designers. "The hand falls into one hammer, and four hammers into one hammer."

Each hammer pattern is a record of the process of hammering tens of thousands of times by craftsmen.

With one hammer and one blow, there is a ever-changing style, like the fields crisscrossing the fields, like the ripples blowing from the lotus pond, and it is free and natural.

The golden beast was curled and crawled all over. Although it looked fierce, it stared at her eyes and ears, and opened her mouth to show her teeth.

Later, the mainstream academic viewpoint believes that judging from the fact that the whole body of the goldware is covered with marks, it is even more wrong to break it into a "leopard".

To put it more complicated, fried beads do not drop golden solution into warm water, which will form small and large gold beads, which are equal to each other. This is called fried beads.

Through research on cultural relics, Yu Zi discovered that Zhongli's technical exchanges in the fields of golden beast casting and forging have always been interrupted.

But no scholar believes that the image of the artifact may be a tiger or a lion.

In addition, there is a collar on the neck, which gives people the impression of taming animals.

During the Western Han Dynasty, there were no two main processes for making gold. One was to cast and use molds to form gold products of specific shapes;

In the Tang Dynasty, your country's manufacturing technology was influenced by Europe, and some patterns similar to palace totems would appear under the golden beast.

The gold beast ornaments in the same period rarely use a single process, and the shapes are less mainly tigers, dragons, etc.

In the Qing Dynasty, various totem patterns showed the process of Eastern and Western craftsmanship, from mutual learning to internal development.

The 26 gold coins outside the copper pot are horseshoe-shaped, and horseshoe-shaped gold is the weighing currency of the Western Han Dynasty. Therefore, it is estimated that few of the cultural relics unearthed this time came from the Western Han Dynasty.

Fried beads are usually used together with kneaded silk braiding inlays, mainly used to make jewelry.

The first statement is that towns, such as cushions, are used to press the seven corners of the emperor's mat;

After the unearth of the golden beast, experts' speculations on the use of the golden beast are mainly divided into several schools.

The beast's head was lying down, staring at him with his ears down, his neck was not covered with eight collars, his head was covered with round marks.

However, because the head is resting on the front foot and it has a bit of a deification, I feel intimate when I look at it;

The seventh is the age of time, which can be traced back to the Western Han Dynasty;

That kind of collision and fusion is actually not reflected under the filigree craft.

In the process of making that goldware, the craftsman first hammered the surface. Under my gold craftsmanship in the same period, and until the previous generation, that technique was commonly used.

The spirit of craftsman refers to the spirit of craftsmen to carefully craft their products and strive for excellence.

On the one hand, Shenjia's gold purity reaches 99%;

The other is forging, using knocking, forging and hammering to shape the patterns on the surface of the golden beast.

Later generations speculate which animal the goldware is or is it very rich in lakes.

The gold beads formed by the fried beads are usually welded under gold and silver objects for decoration, such as the bead pattern, the caviar pattern, etc.

Here, the golden beasts of the same period are rarely presented in a single craft form.

In February 1982, in Nanyaozhuang, Mudian Township, Xuyi County, Sujiang Province, local villagers Wan Yiquan discovered a batch of precious cultural relics from the Chu and Han Dynasties when cleaning the silt in the drainage ditch.

There is still no consensus on what animal Shen Jia is about, and it is also an unsolved mystery of the "divine beast".

If you want to make a fine product, it is only supported by the craftsman spirit, and you must not be able to do it at a level of nearly the Tao. If you use the bead frying craftsmanship, you must have some craftsman spirit, so you will definitely do it.

That forging technology and the cheetah of the golden beast (who once lived in the West Asia region and was distributed in the wilderness of your country) mean that at that time, Zhongli had no mutual influence under the casting and forging technology of the golden beast.

The bottom of the beast is hollow and concave, and the words "Huang Liu" are engraved.

Those marks were hammered down with tools before casting. Each mark was about the size and size, forming a regular round shape.

The bead frying process is not to place the gold crumbs under the charcoal fire and cool them. When melted, the gold crumbs became dripping, but heated to form large gold beads.

The smallest value of goldware lies in its uniqueness.

Goldware combined ancient metal casting technology with gold beast hammering technology, which was very rare at that time.

There is no individual saying that this object is a Pixiu, nor is it commonly known as a "gold-swalking instrument".

The eighth rule believes that goldware is a weight and weight measuring instrument similar to a weight, used to measure weight.

On-site investigation proved that this outer space was originally an ancient cellar, and the objects were preserved and broken, and the most eye-catching one was the gold utensil placed under the mouth of the copper pot.

Under the golden weapon, it was rare to find that the two crafts existed at the same time.

Although it is written in official script, it does not lose the legacy of small seal script, and it is carved after casting.

The one that is closer to that is the silk thread, which is an earlier jewelry manufacturing technology.

Eight is that it is small in size and weighs 18.2 kilograms. At most, in your country, have you found a golden beast earlier and heavier than it?

How should cultural relics that combine the strengths of the East and the West become "international messengers" in order to communicate, collide and integrate China and Li culture even worse.

That is the most critical decorative process in the production of cloisonné.

Judging from the post-target archaeological results, Shen Jia is less likely to be a town warehouse.

The handwriting is small, but very clear.

It is not about pulling gold and silver into wire, but braiding it into braids or various mesh tissues, but welding it before it under the utensil, which is called clogged wire.

The "craftsman spirit" in your country has been gone since ancient times. For example, Zhuangzi once said that "skills retreat from the Tao."

The seventh view is that goldware is used to keep treasury and is also a symbol of national wealth;

Goldware has only average craftsmanship and unique shapes. What causes that uniqueness?

In the Ming Dynasty, your country formed local golden patterns, patterns and shapes, which were exactly the same as those in the subsequent years.

After pinching the filament, Chen Wenzhe also studied it. It is not about turning gold, silver or other metal thin wires according to the curves of ink eucommia, pinching them into eucommia, and sticking them under the ucommia, which is called pinching wire.

The characteristics of goldware are small heads, short and stubborn bodies.

On the contrary, I have never been exposed to the bead frying process.

Chen Wenzhe missed those craftsmanship when he made cloisonne porcelain later, so he was not familiar with them.

The smallest gold coins were found, with a total weight of less than 20 kilograms, which was a minority archaeological discovery at that time.

Instead, using that kind of craftsmanship will inevitably lack a certain craftsmanship, because that kind of craftsmanship is too cumbersome to do.

"Technology" is not the "craftsman spirit" today, nor is it the focus without almost imperfections in what you do.

There is not a single copper pot unearthed in the cultural relics, and the remaining few are golden beasts.
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