"Smelting copper Hua"; An exhibition of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors

Bronze mirror is an indispensable artifact in the daily life of ancient humans.

The ancient mirror not only pays attention to practicality, but also has beautiful, bright mirror can reflect the face, the back decoration is pleasing to the eye.

Different times of production technology and decoration are different, in the long history for later generations to leave a variety of bronze mirrors.

With the prosperity of "ancient stone study", bronze mirror has become one of the key objects for research.

In modern times, a number of bronze mirrors have been unearthed in the archaeological excavation in China, which enrich the museum exhibits and research materials, so that the audience can see different types of bronze mirrors.

This exhibition exhibited 114 bronze mirror, time span from the eastern zhou dynasty to the republic of China for two thousand years, including Luoyang museum, Anyang museum, Luoyang institute of archaeology, Sanmenxia museum unit collection, including the eastern zhou dynasty to the warring states period bronze mirror 4 pieces, 40 bronze mirror, three two jin north and southern dynasties bronze mirror 9, sui and tang dynasties bronze mirror 26, after the song dynasty bronze mirror 35, part of the bronze mirror for the first time in front of the world.

Because it is difficult to elaborate, this exhibition takes the era as the axis, but it is not a division of bronze mirror style and development status.

The artifacts of each dynasty have the transitional succession of the previous generation and the uniqueness of the style of The Times.

We expect the audience to have different results.