古人言：以铜为镜，可正衣冠，用以端正自身言行；唐代诗人李贺也曾用诗“双鸾开镜似秋光，解鬟临镜立象床。”描绘女子对镜梳妆的动人场景，铜镜集观赏价值和实用价值为一体，在唐代，铜镜到达了其发展史上的第三个高峰，不仅样式千变万化，工艺也频频创新，颇受唐人喜爱。海兽葡萄纹便是这时期匠人巧思的成果，盛唐气韵与西域文化的融合，神秘而华丽。今天我们便来会一会这异彩纷呈的“多谜之镜”。

我国在远古的时候，人们通过河流、水塘发现静止的水可以照人，于是慢慢延伸到最早期用陶盆盛水作为镜子照面梳妆打扮。铜器发明后，用铜盆盛水，鉴形照影。《说文·金部》释“鉴”为“盆”，所以说盛水的盆（鉴），就是最早的镜子。随着冶炼技术的提高，人们发现光滑的铜面能照人，商周时期开始试制铜锡和银铅等合金技术制作铜镜。

藏品介绍

中文名称：西汉金文透光青铜镜

英文名称：Translucent bronze mirror in Western Han Dynasty inscriptions

类别：杂项

规格：一面

品相：美品

铜镜背面花纹的外侧有铭文:“见日之光,天下大明”,所以该镜被命名为“见日之光”透光镜。 古人一直将这种具有幻术般效应的“透光镜”视为“神物”。

透光镜也从此披上了一层神秘的色彩，被外国人称为“魔镜”。一千多年来，这种神奇的现象吸引了古今中外的众多学者，从我国宋代的沈括到清朝的郑复光，从中国到大洋彼岸，无数学者试图揭开这困扰了世界千年的古镜之谜，但是没有人能用实验的方法证实自己的猜测，或者更确切地说，没有人真正复制出与西汉透光古镜完全相同的镜子来。

这个铜镜在有铭文和图案处非常厚，无铭文处比较薄。因为厚薄不均匀，造成铜镜产生铸造应力，并且在磨镜时发生弹性变形，所以厚处曲率小，薄处曲率大。因差异十分小，仅几微米，肉眼根本没有办法察觉。曲率的差异与纹饰相对应，当光线照射到镜面时，曲率较大的地方反射光比较分散，投影就较暗；曲率较小的地方反射光比较集中，投影就比较亮。所以，我们能从反射图像中看到有较亮的字迹花纹显现出来。这些是镜背面的图像，而从表面看来，铜镜好像真的能“透光”。

铜镜是古人用来鉴容的生活用器。从战国时期开始较为广泛地使用，直至明清时期，基本上与中国古代封建社会相始终，绵延三千余年。汉朝时期是我国古代铜镜发展史上的一个高峰。在中国古代铜镜发展史上占据着承前启后的重要地位。铜镜作为一种重要的和常见的文化遗物，蕴藏着丰富的文化内涵和历史信息，成为研究明代社会历史和文化的重要的物质文化遗物，也为研究明代社会生产力发展水平提供了可靠的依据，具有极高的收藏价值。

英文翻译：The ancients said: bronze as a mirror, can be used to correct their own words and deeds The Tang Dynasty poet Li He also used the poem "double luan open the mirror like the autumn light, and untie the mirror to stand like a bed." In the Tang Dynasty, bronze mirrors reached the third peak in their development history. They were not only varied in style, but also innovated in craft frequently, making them quite popular with people of the Tang Dynasty. The grape grain of the sea animal is the result of the ingenuity of the craftsmen in this period. The fusion of the charm of the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the culture of the Western Regions is mysterious and magnificent. Today we are going to take a look at the colorful "Mirrors of Mystery".

In ancient China, people found that still water could shine on people through rivers and ponds, so they gradually extended to the earliest stage of using pottery POTS to hold water as a mirror to look at their faces and dress up. After the invention of bronze ware, copper basins were used to hold water to mirror the shape and take shadows. "Shuo Wen · Jin Bu" explains "Jian" as "basin", so it is said that the basin holding water (Jian) is the earliest mirror. With the improvement of smelting technology, it was found that the smooth copper surface could reflect people. During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, copper, tin, silver and lead were tried out to produce copper mirrors.

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Chinese name: Western Han Dynasty golden inscriptions translucent bronze mirror

Translucent bronze mirror in Western Han Dynasty inscriptions

Category: Miscellaneous

Specification: One side

Appearance: Beautiful

There is an inscription on the outside of the pattern on the back of the bronze mirror: "The light of the sun, the world is bright", so the mirror is named "the light of the sun". The ancients have always regarded this kind of magic effect as a "transparent mirror" as a "divine thing".

Diaphanous mirror also put on a layer of mysterious color from now on, be called by foreigner "magic mirror". More than one thousand years, the wonderful phenomenon attract many of the ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign scholars, Zheng Fuguang from shen kua our country song dynasty to the qing dynasty, from China to the ocean, numerous scholars attempting to uncover the troubled world one thousand ancient mystery of the mirror, but no one can use the experimental method to confirm their guesses, or more precisely, No one has really reproduced the mirror that is exactly the same as the ancient transparent mirror of the Western Han Dynasty.

The bronze mirror is very thick where there are inscriptions and designs and thin where there are no inscriptions. Because the thickness is not uniform, the copper mirror produces casting stress, and elastic deformation occurs when grinding the mirror, so the curvature of the thick part is small, and the curvature of the thin part is large. The difference is so small, just a few microns, that the naked eye cannot detect it at all. The difference in curvature corresponds to the ornamentation. When the light hits the mirror, the curvature is larger and the reflected light is more scattered, so the projection is darker. Where there is less curvature the reflected light is more concentrated and the projection is brighter. As a result, we can see a brighter pattern in the reflected image. These are images from the back of the mirror, and from the surface, the bronze mirror really does seem to be "transparent."

Bronze mirrors were used by ancient people to mirror their faces. From the Warring States period began to be widely used, until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, basically and China's ancient feudal society phase has been stretching for more than 3,000 years. The Han Dynasty was a peak in the development of ancient bronze mirrors in China. In the development history of ancient Chinese bronze mirrors occupy an important position connecting the past and the future. As an important and common cultural relic, the bronze mirror contains rich cultural connotation and historical information. It has become an important material cultural relic for the study of the social history and culture of the Ming Dynasty, and also provides a reliable basis for the study of the development level of the social productive forces of the Ming Dynasty, and has a very high collection value.

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