Bronze drums in escort souls safely into heaven

Melting copper ore for the bright red fluid, injected into a variety of sand and gravel range, the gong would like to cast into a gong would like to cast copper cymbals into copper cymbals, want the bronze drum casting bronze drum, which fully reflects the wisdom of the Buyi and casting skills. If the dragon "the thirty-seventh sentence:" there Powa death with the bronze drum. " The thirty-eighth sentence: "there Powa Allusions bronze drum. The Bouyei have the saying called "dead man to heaven in the drum. The quality of the bronze between the Shnag and Warring States Period are pure and clean and hardly contains grains of sand. The bronze drum in Buyi the funeral rites occupied an important position. As the Buyi important ritual, artifacts, bronze drums were Buyi extremely respected. Buyi legend, playing the bronze drum smooth Heavenly Road, bronze drums in escort souls safely into heaven.
In other countries, talked about casting bronze drum technology on the articles are not many, now only the National Library of Thailand collection to a Burmese bronze drum production method ". This paper describes the methods and processes of the early 20th century Myanmar the Kayah cast bronze drum, the Chinese Ming Dynasty "Heavenly Creations" is written in the "lost wax" is basically the same. Professor Wan Fubin Donglan bronze drums survey in mind, "he wrote: The Guangxi Donglan is the hometown of the famous bronze drum, local date in the folk there are still hundreds of faceted bronze drum Liang Fulin registration bronze drum there are more than 300 surface The bronze drum is a the Majiang bronze drum. Another way is to inspect the color of the bronze at the feet, mouth rim and the bottom.
The bronze drum is how come the local different versions, only - a village that outsiders took the tool to the local farmers is now scheduled for now do; other villages say is purchased from the Guizhou area. In Donglan Changle Township High-tech Tuen the Hechi Heritage Station Liang Fulin, who bronze drum fieldwork in 1992, found the side "Dushan pairs" bronze drum. The bronze in the Spring and Autumn period are lighter and thinner than that of the Shang and Zhou.  The drum diameter of 48 cm and 27 cm high, the drum main decoration nipple unitary herringbone Ssangyong Xian Shou pattern and the Chinese character inscriptions and happiness, many happy returns "," generations into eternal family wealth ".
The Daoguang seven to establish a ". Drumhead on the back cast "Dushan pairs and" India, India as a rectangle, 1.1 cm wide, 4.1 cm long, "Dushan" word horizontal, "and" words vertical. This should be an important example of close integration of Chinese culture and local bronze drum culture, an indication of the the Guizhou existing workshops to cast bronze drum industry, sold to Guangxi and other places. In Buyi the "Mount by", revealed some of information Casting bronze drum, it should be said. Ancient bronze state is kind of the greatest art when the first light dawns on Chinese civilization. This is a long-term life Buyi in Guizhou native ancestors have left us with precious literature, in order to further explore and study cast green The Tonggu methods and processes, and provides a rare first-hand information.
Ethnic civil bronze drum decorative patterns in modern graphic design [Summary] This article is sorting through the collection of bronze drum graphics data at the same time, the bronze drum pattern analysis, the research summary abstracts and refining, combined with modern design practices, and then applied to each of the design work. Although, the bronze sculpture does not bring the great casters with a clear name into the world. The extract Guangxi Traditional Ethnic and Folk the Tonggu decorative patterns of patterns, form factor for today's design provides the essence of ethnic traditional folk art, more of today's Guangxi design to the world marked the local imprint, and set up other refinement of the traditional visual arts and development and modern design of the bridge, the field of graphic design in Guangxi have practical significance.