There are many patterns and decorations on the back, such as flowers, birds, fish and insects, people's stories, mountain pavilions and so on. And there are also people who are plain-looking and have no pattern. Pattern processing often adopts the combination of hidden lines and main lines, which enhances the fluctuation and weight of decorative patterns with the rhythm and rhythm of lines, and overcomes the lightness and monotony caused by thinness. Among them, the animal and plant patterns are accurate, vivid and rich in composition. The composition of landscape figures is rich in painting effect. Bronze mirrors in the Song Dynasty were mostly produced in Huzhou, Fuzhou, Chengdu and other places. Smelting and casting.
There are three kinds of bronze mirrors in Song Dynasty: flat mirror, concave mirror mirror and convex mirror. Bronze mirrors in Song Dynasty were widely used in geomantic omen, and their functions were to block evil spirits, melt evil spirits, collect evil spirits and ward off evil spirits. Moreover, each kind of mirror has different functions, such as flat mirror, which can be put away or vice versa. Don't think that hanging a mirror is anti-evil, sometimes it depends on the actual situation; Concave mirror is used for absorption, mainly for transportation; Convex mirror blocks evil spirits, that is, it reflects, dissolves and buffers external evil spirits.
It is understood that due to the strict management of Chinese bronze collection, the market has always been average. In 2003 and 2004, a bronze mirror of the Song Dynasty was already very expensive if it could fetch tens of thousands of yuan. However, with the development of the market, bronze mirrors have become active in the past five years, and the price has been rising all the way ~