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The manufacture of ancient bronze mirrors reached its peak in the Tang Dynasty. The alloy proportion of tin and silver is increased in the process, which makes the mirror look particularly bright and clean, with silvery luster and clear reflection. The decorative arts have made unprecedented achievements. There are both heavy and delicate shapes, such as sunflower, rhombus, square, hexagon, octagon and sub-shape. The decoration is free and lively, generous and beautiful, and tends to be secular. Decorative patterns and inscriptions contain the aesthetic concept of auspiciousness, wealth and longing for the fairy mountain and the Qiongge. There are all kinds of rare birds and animals, flowers and grapes, as well as myths and legends and historical stories, which reflect the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. In Tang poetry, there are many poems that express their feelings through bronze mirrors or directly praise them, which show the face of the tang dynasty bronze mirror from many angles.

Panlong tattoo mirror was very popular in the Tang Dynasty, and many Tang poems were recited. Meng Haoran sighed at the mirror with Zhang Mingfu, saying, "I have a dragon mirror, and the light is clear and long." In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, the dragon mirror was presented to the emperor as a tribute, and the song "Casting Mirror" written by the dragon to protect the elderly: "The dragon is hidden in the mirror. There are images among teachers, and there are endless changes. Clouds blow, fog blows, and rain blows. Fairy Shangqing, come and offer your wisdom. " This is the evidence. In ancient China, the dragon was the symbol of the emperor, so the Panlong mirror was also called "the mirror of the emperor". There is a cloud in Bai Juyi's Mirror of New Yuefu: "With a flying dragon on his back, everyone is called the mirror of the emperor." In Li Bai's Two Painful Mirrors for Beauty, there are both Panlong Mirror and Golden Magpie Mirror. Li He also has "Beauty Combs Her Hair Song": "Shuangluan opens the mirror with autumn water light, and stands in the mirror." Dai Shulun's Gong Ci: "Worry in the mirror, bright moon and sheep dream in the sound." These poems are also a kind of praise for the very popular Bird Mirror at that time. Through poetry, we can feel the pattern of the phoenix dance blooming, full of youthful vitality, and also a description of peace and prosperity. Xue Tao's "Sometimes Chang 'e mirror locks, Yao Tai Xia Cai Diao" is probably a fairy tale mirror with the pattern of the goddess the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon.

Special craft mirrors, such as gold and silver flat mirror, mother-of-pearl mirror and gold and silver back mirror, have become the treasures of ancient bronze mirror art in China because of their special raw materials and manufacturing technology. Wang Jian's "Old Woman Sighing at the Mirror": "Married, the mirror is still there, and the gold painting is double-phoenix back." The bronze mirror in the poem is a gold-plated mirror, which reflects the owner's treasure of the mirror.

In Tang poetry, there are many descriptions that use mirrors as tokens of love, gifts and divination tools. Luo Qiu's poem "Blue Rainbow": "The resentment of the phoenix-broken warbler has deepened, which is unbearable for a hundred years. If Honger sees the Sui Dynasty, she will look for it for no reason. " Sing the story of the second reincarnation; In Du Mu's second time around, "Beauty misses the mirror and meets the monarch again" means that husband and wife are separated and there is no hope of reunion; On his birthday on September 5th, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty cast a "Millennium Mirror" for ministers. There is also a poem to prove it: "If you cast a mirror for a thousand years, you will see a hundred alchemies. After the club gives the group, see the image and see the heart. " Guan Xiu's "old meaning is known to friends" and "guests come from afar, leaving my bronze mirror behind" are gifts from friends.

Divination with bronze mirrors has been popular since the Tang Dynasty, commonly known as "mirror listening" or "mirror divination". Don Wang Jian's Listening to Words in the Mirror says, "If you marry a mirror, your husband will travel far to listen to it." Li Kuo's Listening to Words in the Mirror (Listening to Words in the Ancient Mirror is still a divination today): "Long face in the past, listening to the news tonight." Listening in the mirror and I wish I could see a thousand miles of pedestrians are much deeper and longer than Shi Jianwu's looking at a bronze mirror in front of a lamp and inserting twelve lines of gold hairpin for nothing. Note: I picked it online for reference only.