According to the published materials, it can be divided into flower mirrors, dragon mirrors, bird mirrors, fairy story mirrors, gossip mirrors, trademark inscription mirrors, auspicious inscription mirrors, plain mirrors and so on. There are different shapes and contents in each category.
Flower mirrors: Flower mirrors are one of the most prominent bronze mirrors in the Song Dynasty. Common ones are sub-glyph, rhomboid, sunflower, circle and so on. The expression technique of multi-tangled flowers with theme ornamentation. Some take the button as the center, and four blooming peony flowers radiate from a vine, which are symmetrically arranged in four directions, with simple composition and strong realism. Some of them show wide leaves and flowers in the rhombic branches. The rhombic branches are slender and beautiful, the stems and leaves are interspersed and overlapped, and the flowers are elegant. Many dated Song tombs have unearthed various flower mirrors during burial, such as the tomb of Huizong Zhenghe in Macheng, Hubei Province for the third year, the tomb of Huizong Xuanhe in Danfeng County, Shaanxi Province for the first year, and the tomb of Gaozong Shaoxing in Jiangsu Province for the first year. From the unearthed area, it has been unearthed all over the north and south.
dragon mirrors: they can be divided into double dragon mirrors and single dragon mirrors. From the information we have seen so far, there are very few single dragon mirrors. Shuanglong mirror, there are eight diamonds, six diamonds, sunflower shape, furnace shape, handle rhombus shape and other forms. Ssangyong is on both sides of the button, with its body curled above its head and its hind legs intertwined at its tail, forming a ring. The two dragons looked at the round buttons, taking the buttons as pearls and acting like pearls. Yi Long opened his mouth and Yi Long shut up. A three-legged incense burner was placed on the shore below the button, and the waves under the shore were tumbling. Regardless of the shape of the mirror, this type of dragon mirror has basically the same decorative pattern and layout, and its characteristics are very obvious. Jiangxi Gao 'an Li Zong Bao You for three years in the Southern Song Dynasty? One side of the tomb unearthed in 1255. On the other side of the bronze mirror, the inscription "Jia Xi Wu Shu Jing" was cast, that is, "Jia Xi Wu Xu" was the second year of Li Zong Jia Xi in the Southern Song Dynasty? In 1238, we can know that this kind of mirror was popular in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Judging from the information available at present, this kind of mirror has been handed down from generation to generation and unearthed more, and it is one of the most popular mirrors in the Song Dynasty.
birds and mirrors; There are many kinds of flower-and-bird mirrors in Song Dynasty, but the double phoenix mirror is the most beautiful and popular. The double phoenix mirror is mostly round in shape, and the theme decoration is generally double phoenix. The phoenix is large and covered with mirrors. Many mirrors are rarely decorated with other decorations except Shuangfeng. The double phoenix is surrounded by end to end, shaped like a paper-cut pattern, and its wings and tail are detailed and gorgeous. In particular, the tail feathers are exaggerated and deformed, some of them are like three long slender vines, some are like a curly rhomboid flower, and some are stretched out in a diamond pattern. It can be said that the double phoenix mirror is a masterpiece of bronze mirror decoration in Song Dynasty.
Fairy story mirrors: There are many kinds of bronze mirrors with rich contents. There are flying fairy mirrors, fairy dragon-descending mirrors, two immortals crossing the sea, arhat crossing the sea, the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon mirror, Moon Palace mirror, Cowherd and Weaver Girl mirror. Legends of characters have richer themes. There are: Cuju tattoo mirror, dressing mirror, Wang Zhi Guan Yi mirror, Ningqi Fanniu mirror, Qigong figure mirror, Guihe Qishou figure mirror, pay homage to the figure mirror, Xuanyuan mirror. Among them, there are many mirrors, such as Luohan tattoo mirror, Guihe Qishou figure mirror, Wangzhi Guanyi mirror, Ningqi Fanniu mirror, and paying homage to the figure mirror.
Pay a visit to the figure mirror: There are pavilions, small bridges and flowing water, big trees, figures and waiters in front of the pavilions. One person on the bridge made a bow. At present, there are nearly 1 known faces. Among them, the unearthed side of the three-year tomb of Huizong Chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty in Xiangyang, Hubei Province is particularly important for determining its age.
ning qi fan Niu Jing: the picture is divided into two parts: land and water. There is a big tree and two people on the ground. One-man morning glory, waves in the water. At present, there are as many as seven or eight sides known.
Wang Zhiguan's mirror: The picture also has two parts: land and water. There is a big tree on the ground. Under the tree, there are two changes to play chess. One person watches the game and someone walks on the shore.
Bagua mirrors: The Bagua mirrors in the Song Dynasty have the most diverse forms. Judging from the combination of Bagua and other patterns, there is a god Bagua mirror, that is, Bagua is organized with Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku and Xuanwu. The Eight Diagrams Mirror of the Twelve Earthly Branches (Figure 6), the Eight Diagrams Mirror of the Sky, the Eight Diagrams Mirror of the Dragon and Tiger, the Eight Diagrams Mirror of the Chinese Zodiac, the Eight Diagrams Mirror of the Eight Diagrams Inscription, and the Eight Diagrams Mirror are all outstanding, no matter whether the patterns are complex or simple.
The arrangement of the Eight Diagrams mirrors in Song Dynasty is still arranged according to the orientation of Yi Lun Gua. Both the dry hexagrams are in the northwest and the Kun hexagrams are in the southwest ... It is different from the position of the dry hexagrams in the south and the Kun hexagrams in the north advocated by Shao Yong, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, which is in line with the position of the Eight Diagrams, and other patterns are also arranged in a strict orientation sequence. For example, the four gods press the East Qinglong, the West White Tiger, the South Suzaku, the North Xuanwu and the Zodiac. Rat North, noon? Horse south position arrangement.
Eight Diagrams mirrors in the Song Dynasty are from 114 tombs in the third year of Chongning, Huizong, 1113 tombs in the third year of Zhenghe and 1139 tombs in the ninth year of Shaoxing. It can be seen that they were particularly popular in the late Northern Song Dynasty and the early Southern Song Dynasty.
trademark mirror: the so-called trademark inscription is an inscription cast in a long grid on one side or both sides of the mirror button, and its contents are mostly the casting area, shop, font size and craftsman's surname. People divide the casting areas into Huzhou mirror, Jiankang mirror, Chengdu mirror, Hangzhou mirror and Raozhou mirror ...
Huzhou mirror: the common forms are rhombus, sunflower, square, long strip and handle. There are many kinds of inscriptions, among which Shi Jiaming is the most, such as: "A bronze photo of Huzhou Yifengqiao South Restaurant relative to Shijiazhen" and "A bronze photo of Huzhou Zhenshi Eighth Uncle, every two or one hundred articles". According to archaeological materials, Huzhou Mirror became popular in the late Northern Song Dynasty and was the most popular in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Hangzhou Mirror: Inscriptions such as "Bronze photo of Hangzhou Hammer Family, opening westward at the lower bank of Yuezhou Qingdao Bridge" and "Bronze photo of Hangzhou Real Gaojia".