Research Of The Brass Antique Mirror In Song Dynasty

The bronze mirror which with a long history of the development in our country, is always playing an important role as the articles for daily use before the mercury mirror was introduced into here. This also makes its development is closely linked with every historical period of the social life. With researching the bronze mirror, we can know the ancient people’s daily life and social cultural. The brass mirror counterfeited ancient bronze mirror suddenly appeared in a short time with a large numbers, must have the corresponding social reasons, as for the studying of that reason, on the one hand we can reduction the people’s daily life in song dynasty, on the other hand we can also make a consolidation of antique brass mirror for no systematic academic research.In this paper, archaeological typology and historical studies of the method are being used, through a lot of collecting relevant antique brass mirror data and its analysis and statistics, on the basis of the reference to the results of previous studies, to study the brass mirror in Song Dynasty.Whole article is divided into four parts. The first part of the synthesis of existing data to survive in the world of the brass antique mirror data classification and consolidation; the second part has some information on the basis of the brass antique mirror, summarized the its shape, decoration and clear inscriptions features; the third part by comparing the information and reasonable speculation, finds the brass antique mirror’s production process and identify key points; the fourth part to find out why it is produced in large amounts, and to explore its impact to the brass antique mirror on later dynasties.