What is the connection and difference between the standing crane square pot and the lotus crane squa

Judging from the shape of the lotus crane square pot, it is generous, elegant, beautiful and novel, it is a flat square body, the pot is tall, the structure is tight, and its main part is the popular square pot shape since the late Western Zhou Dynasty, with a slanted shoulder on the neck, a drumming abdomen, a center of gravity in the lower abdomen, a cover, two ears, and a circle of feet. Judging from the top cover, it is composed of 10 groups of double-sided lotus petal-shaped decorations, and the vertical carving of double lotus petals is a hollow dragon pattern. The ** of the lotus flower has a small movable cover, standing on the crane, raising its head and flapping its wings, like a song and dancing.

The lotus flower is fat and blooming, and the crane stands on the flower core, one large and one small, 1 static and 1 moving, one flower and one bird, with ingenious matching. Bronze craftsmen have been particularly successful in their sculptures of cranes, which are so lifelike that they seem to flutter their wings if someone shouts. Mr. Guo Moruo once praised the crane with the lid of the pot, "breaking through the Hongmeng of ancient times, and is full of ambition and looking down on everything".

In terms of decoration, his decorations are extremely intricate, and the designs are very wonderful, especially the dragon motifs on the upper and lower parts of the vessel and various additional decorations. The whole body of the square pot is decorated with pan mantis patterns, these pan claw patterns are intertwined with each other, regardless of primary and secondary, interspersed up and down, extending on all sides, as if striving to pursue a high-spirited will to life. The ornamentation on the body is bas-relief and has a dragon and phoenix pattern engraved with yin lines.

Some are expressed in the form of a combination of birds and beasts, which are full of pots. There are dragon (beast) shaped ears on all sides of the neck of the pot, and the dragon-shaped ears of the copper kettle are formed by the two positive sides of the dragon shape that looks back and look back, and there are corolla-shaped horns, the volume is larger and longer, and the crown and the body have the exquisite pattern of hollowing. The four corners of the lower part of the ampulla have winged dragons with attachments, and the horns of the beast are rolled, and the ends of the horns are like flowers, making a look back and clinging.

There are two dragons with their heads in anticipation on their feet, with scales, a bowed body and a curly tail, and their heads turned outward, and they have branch-shaped horns. The dragon supporting the body of the pot and the momentum of the dragon and beast climbing upwards with all the attachments on the body of the pot correspond to each other, and together create a feeling of lightness and movement of the body of the pot on the viewer's vision. The most exciting part is the double-layered lotus petals raised on the top of the lid and the standing crane standing on the lotus core and ready to fly.

The fresh, free, vivid and lively artistic conception they show swept away the solemn and rigid style of the previous generation of decorative crafts, marking a new beginning of Chinese decorative crafts. In terms of color, the color of the bronze is blue-gray, and after a long period of oxidation, the surface plays a very beautiful green or green spot produced by oxidation. From the point of view of production technology, the process adopts a variety of techniques such as round carving, bas-relief, fine carving, welding, etc., and the casting skills are excellent and exquisite, and the lotus crane square pot is cast by a variety of techniques such as round carving, bas-relief, fine carving, and welding.

The craftsmanship is very exquisite, reflecting the style of the times during the great changes of the Spring and Autumn Period. The art is cleverly conceived, in stark contrast to the heavy and solemn bronzes of the Shang Dynasty.

The lotus crane square pot is a cultural relic unearthed in the Spring and Autumn Period of Li Jialou in Xinzheng, Henan Province in 1923. The top cover is made of hollow lotus petals, a crane in the middle, and its wings are stretched high. The ears are carved Gu Shou Fu Dragon, there are beast-shaped ridges on the front and back of the neck, the four corners of the abdomen are decorated with climbing flying dragons, and the two male and strong tongue beasts are bearing under the circle feet, and the whole body is decorated with dragon patterns that are intertwined with each other.

The shape is peculiar and gorgeous, and it is a fine product in the spring and autumn bronzes. The lotus crane square pot was originally a pair, and its shape, pattern decoration and size were almost identical. One is now in the Henan Museum, and the other is in the Palace Museum in Beijing.

It's hard to see if the screws can turn on the green light, but the place seems to be open, and occasionally it seems that people can't do it.

There is no big difference, when it was unearthed in 1923, it was a pair, one of the Peugeot in the Xinzheng Yi ware, and later the Palace Museum in Beijing because of its special shape, especially the combination of cranes and lotus petals and the monster body of the body is extremely symbolic, so it is necessary to go to one of them, the Henan Museum collects the other, there is actually no difference between the two, just like the prince Wuding a total of seven groups, the National Museum wanted to cloud copper ban that year, and the Henan Museum was unwilling to give it (because it was repaired by the Henan Museum for four years), For the National Museum Prince Wuding and other utensils, so what you see in the Forbidden City and the Henan Museum see the crane square pot, just like the Prince Wuding you see in the National Museum and the Henan Museum, the two are the same, but they are collected separately, which is convenient for everyone**; As for the standing crane, it is because there is a standing crane on the lid of the pot, and it is also called a lotus crane because in addition to the standing crane of the lid, there are extravagant lotus petals on the edge of the lid (although it is more abstract, not very like a lotus petal), so there is a difference.

The difference is that the standing one should be taller, and the lotus one should be flattened.

The symbolic meaning of the lotus crane square pot is introduced as follows:

It is a spiritual symbol of the Spring and Autumn Period. The lotus crane square pot is huge. The pot has a crown lid, a long neck, a hanging belly, and a circled foot.

The crown of the pot is in the shape of a double-layered blooming lotus petal, and there is a crane that spreads its wings and sings on the lid of the carved lotus petal in the middle. On both sides of the neck, the dragon-shaped monster attached to the wall is used as the ear, up to the mouth of the vessel, and down to the belly.

The four sides of the pot body are decorated with the dragon pattern as the main body, and the four corners of the abdomen are each attached to a flying dragon. There are two capuchin tigers with their heads and tongues sticking out under the four corners of their abdomen, and they support the weight with all their might. The shape of the pot is extraordinary, the decoration is elegant and gorgeous, and it integrates freshness and refinement with dignified and mysterious.

Its peculiar conception, ingenious design, and magnificent forging can be called "the most beautiful bronze in the East" in the morning.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the bronze casting process was innovative on the basis of inheriting the traditional technology, and its "lost wax method" and "separate casting method" were widely used, which not only showed the increasingly superb bronze casting technology, but also reflected the in-depth development of bronze culture. For example, in 1988, in the excavation of the tomb of Zhao Qing in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan, a lotus lid Kui dragon pattern square pot was unearthed, which is centimeter high, the appearance is magnificent, and the lotus petal-shaped lid button and the Kui dragon pattern handle are exquisitely made.

It's just that the lotus petal decoration is single-layered, and in comparison, the most typical lotus petal decoration is the "lotus crane square pot". "Lotus petals" and "cranes" are newly created animal and plant images in the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period, with outstanding characteristics of the times. As the famous scholar and cultural relics expert Guo Moruo said:

This is one of the symbols of the spirit of the times. ”

The lotus crane square pot is spring and autumn.

Spring and Autumn Lotus Crane Square Pot, mid-Spring and Autumn bronze wine or water container, China's first batch of cultural relics prohibited from going abroad (territory) exhibition. In 1923, it was unearthed in the tomb of Zheng Gong in Lijialou, Xinzheng, Henan, and was collected in the Bronze Hall of the Palace Museum in Beijing, and the other was collected in the Henan Museum.

The main part of this pot is the popular square pot shape since the late Western Zhou Dynasty, with a lid, two ears, a circle of feet, the center of gravity in the lower abdomen, and various additional decorations on the upper and lower parts of the body, which not only causes an unusually magnificent decorative effect, but also reflects the important changes in the aesthetic concept of bronze art in the Spring and Autumn Period. In December 2015, the lotus crane square pot was shipped to Beijing for exhibition.

From the point of view of production technology, the casting of the lotus crane square pot adopts a variety of techniques such as round carving, bas-relief, fine carving, welding, etc., and the craftsmanship is exquisite, reflecting the overall style of the Spring and Autumn Period, and forming a sharp contrast with the thick and solemn bronze style of the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

The 116 cm high, 65 kg tall and 65 kg lid is decorated with various patterns and additional accessories, and the design is extremely complex: the top lid is composed of 10 sets of grinding double-layered bronze lotus petals, each of which is still hollowed out; The ornamentation on the body of the pot is made of bas-relief technology, and it is also decorated with dragons, phoenixes, tigers and other ornaments engraved with yin lines. Remorse.

The huge shape, elegant curves, pure green craftsmanship, exquisite ornamentation, fresh and timeless, make the world breathtaking, so the lotus crane square pot is known as the "swan song of the Bronze Age", which shows that Zheng Guo's industrial science and technology level, especially the bronze casting process, was in a leading position at that time.

The composition of the lotus crane square pot is extremely complex, the shape design is very wonderful, and the casting technique is excellent and exquisite, which can be called a model work of bronze art in the Spring and Autumn Period. The lotus crane square pot needs dozens of slaves to be cast at the same time to complete, and it is a representative of the multi-category co-casting process.

The lotus crane square pot is decorated with various additional decorations on the upper and lower parts of the vessel, which not only creates an extraordinary decorative effect, but also reflects the important changes in the aesthetic concept of bronze art in the Spring and Autumn Period.