铜雕史
铜雕史
History of Bronze Sculpture
中国历史上重要的铜雕艺术品有西周的“伯矩”鬲,晚商的“司母戊”鼎以及汉代的“马踏飞燕”。
Important bronze carvings in Chinese history include the "Bo Mou" Bian of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the "Simu Wu" Ding of the late Shang Dynasty and the "Ma Ta Feiyan" of the Han Dynasty.
人类最早使用铸造金属的记载已经模糊不清了,但我们可以这样推测:早期的狩猎者们围坐在火边,一块铜块落进了煤炭里,铜块熔化并流淌,像一股闪光的小溪流,一旦冷却,这个闪光的重物体就变得很硬,形成了新的形状。
The earliest record of human use of cast metal is obscure, but we can speculate that the early hunters sat around the fire, a piece of copper fell into the coal, and the copper melted and flowed like a shining stream. Once cooled, the shining heavy object became very hard and formed a new shape.
很可能早期人们看到这种现象反复发生,然后他们寻找、收集铜块,把它们扔到火里,看那些闪光的溪流慢慢流出。一些人想象并在沙地上面出一个形状,让金属流进去,也许就变成了一个矛尖。从那以后,金属铸造经历了几十个世纪直到2018年。
It's likely that early people saw this happen again and again, and then they looked for and collected copper pieces, threw them into the fire, and watched the glittering streams slowly flow out. Some people imagine and make a shape on the sand to let the metal flow in, and maybe it becomes a spearpoint. Since then, metal casting has lasted for decades until 2018.
青铜雕
Bronze sculpture
公元前4000到3000年间,发生了一个小小的奇迹,没有证据表明这个奇迹发生的确切时间和地点,以及它是怎样发生的。但是一些人又发现-抑或偶然-把一些稍有不同的闪光金属或锡熔进闪光的铜中,这种混合物就变得更坚硬。伴随着这个发现,青铜时代便开始了。
Between 4000 and 3000 B.C., a small miracle occurred. There is no evidence of the exact time and place of the miracle and how it happened. But some people have also found - or accidentally - that by melting slightly different flashing metals or tin into the flashing copper, the mixture becomes harder. With this discovery, the Bronze Age began.