Where did the mirror come from? Who invented the mirror?

It is said that Nuwa mended the sky and collected a kind of black Zhai stone, which was polished to become a stone mirror, which is the ancestor of the mirror. From the stone mirror to the second-generation metal mirror, it has gone through more than 3,000 years.

In December 1956, 13 ancient Chinese bronze mirrors were found in an ancient tomb in Gangshan City, central Honshu, Japan, estimated to be more than 1,800 years old. These ancient mirrors are round and patterned, and they are all made of bronze. It can be inferred that there were already metal mirrors in China during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and historical records record that Taizong of the Tang Dynasty praised Wei Hui, which means that the bronze mirror can be dressed properly, and Wei Hui can be correct in words and deeds.

This also proves that metal mirrors did exist at that time.

In addition, according to the latest excavation of 13 Han Dynasty tombs in Yanqing County, Beijing in 2002, there are many bronze mirrors in the tombs, and the bronze mirrors are engraved with the inscription "Position to the Three Princes", indicating that there were metal mirrors in the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago.

In ancient times, in addition to mirrors made of bronze mirrors, there were silver mirrors made of silver and steel mirrors made of steel. However, once these metal mirrors are wet, they will darken and rust, and the effect will deteriorate. In order to prevent their surfaces from coming into contact with air and moisture, people later used glass as a raw material to solve this drawback.

One day, the mother-in-law and the Yellow Emperor's third wife, Tongyu, went up to work in the mountains together. My mother-in-law was strong and fast, and she had completed the day's work by noon.

Mirrors were invented by the ancient Egyptians.

Mirrors were invented very early. The ancient Egyptians had already made bronze mirrors around 3000 BC. There were two types of bronze mirrors in ancient China: one was a concave mirror, which was used to focus the sun's rays to obtain fire; The other is a convex mirror, which is used to illuminate people.

In ancient times, cast mirrors were made of a copper-tin alloy, which was relatively brittle. If it is hit by an angular stone, it may shatter in half. We know that the stubble after the brittle object breaks is different, and there are as many different stubble as there are cracks.

There is simply no way for people to copy, that is, with modern technology, it is very difficult to copy it completely.

Introduction to mirrors

A mirror is an item with a smooth surface, originally polished smooth bronze as a mirror and has the ability to reflect light. There are two types of plane mirrors and curved mirrors, plane mirrors are often used by people to sort out their appearance, curved mirrors are divided into concave mirrors and convex mirrors, which are mainly used as makeup mirrors, furniture accessories, building decoration parts, optical instrument parts and solar cookers, reflective telescopes and searchlights, reflecting telescopes, car rearview mirrors and so on.

In science, mirrors are also often used in telescopes, lasers, industrial equipment and other instruments, with regular reflective properties of surface polished metal devices and metal coated glass or metal products, often inlaid with metal, plastic or wooden frames.

In ancient times, obsidian, gold, silver, crystal, copper, and bronze were used to make mirrors by grinding and polishing.

In 3000 B.C., bronze mirrors were already used for makeup in Egypt; In the first century A.D., there began to be large mirrors that could illuminate the whole body; In the Middle Ages, portable mirrors were prevalent in ivory or small boxes with combs; From the end of the 12th century to the beginning of the 13th century, glass mirrors with silver or iron plates as the backside appeared; During the Renaissance, Venice was the center of mirror-making, and the mirrors produced were renowned for their high quality.

In the 16th century, the cylindrical method was invented to make plate glass, and at the same time, the tin amalgamation method of attaching tin foil to the glass with mercury was invented, and the number of metal mirrors was gradually reduced.

In the second half of the 17th century, France invented the use of pouring method to make flat glass, and produced high-quality large glass mirrors.

Mirrors and their frames are increasingly becoming interior decoration.

At the end of the 18th century, large dressing mirrors were made and used on furniture.

Although tin amalgamation is harmful to humans, it continued to be used until the 19th century.

In 1835, the German chemist Lebiger invented the chemical silver plating method, which made the application of glass mirrors more popular.