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Many beautiful artifacts are scattered in museums all over the world. Today we want to see them, and we have to buy tickets.

It looks like a gold and silver tiger-headed chariot and horse, something from the Warring States Period.

There is also a gold-silver-copper-winged tiger, something from the Spring and Autumn Period. It is said that it was unearthed in Hui County, Nanhe, and it is now hidden in the British Museum.

Others include wrong gold and silver gui, something from the Warring States period, which is collected by the Guimet Museum in France.

Bronze chariot and harness inlaid with gold and silver, early Western Han Dynasty, JY collection of Ugly Kingdom.

A gold and silver square ewer, Warring States Period, in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in England.

There are too many hidden abroad like this, the more famous ones are wrong gold and silver swords, wrong gold and silver rings, wrong gold and silver car decorations, wrong gold and silver car and horse ornaments, wrong gold and silver mythical animal feet and so on.

The stars are changing, but how romantic is it?

The utensils are speechless, and the bronze has long been rusted.

And those wrong gold and silver are still radiant, as if silently telling the vicissitudes of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.

At that time, the gold-plated layer is dense and firmly combined with the cast object until a shiny gold-plated layer appears on the surface.

Gold gilding is the pinnacle technique of ancient metal craft decoration in your country, presenting your country's profound smelting culture, and it is also the brilliance that will always enter.

For example: the "Chu Xiaoju Slot Bell" in the late Warring States Period from the tomb of King Jing of Zhongshan in Beihe Mancheng, and the "Changxin Palace Lantern" unearthed from the tomb of Dou.

The gilded bronze "wine bottle" unearthed from the burial pit of No. [-] Maoling Mausoleum in Western Shaanxi, and the gilded bronze "inkstone" of the Eastern Han Dynasty unearthed in Xucheng, Jiangsu.

Among the ancient four small fine gold crafts, apart from gold and silver interlacing, gilding, and filigree inlay, the seventh is hammering.

In ancient times, the gold plating process was applied on a small scale under some luxury goods, mainly to save gold.

In the past, pushing and pressing while wiping, modern craftsmen call this technique "tie", eight points of rubbing and one point of tie.

Gold gilding is a traditional ancient working people in your country, summarizing and creating crafts in production and labor, and the luxury and brilliance will fade over time.

This process is commonly known as "smearing gold", which is applied to the surface of the copper ornament to be plated.

The beauty of gilding first appeared in the Warring States period, and it has less than two thousand years of history.

Generally, it is a gilt copper inkstone drop, which is a combination of gilt and inlay.

"The horse treading on the book is full of poetry, and the gilt horse is not ancient."

Here, the Diancui technique is often used and brilliant results have been achieved.

There are also not many gold-gilt handicrafts, such as gold-gilt coral-inlaid double peach Ruyi, gilt filigree forehead ornaments, Gao Xiangbiao's silk-inlaid beaded stone nail sets, silver-gilt gold-plated bead-inlaid Garuda statues, and so on.

It can be said that there has been no exquisite work in the past dynasties.

Mercury is then poured in and stirred to completely condense the gold in the mercury.

There are very few of them, and you have all come into contact with them and heard of them, such as the craft of gilding, you have all heard of them.

In fact, indirect gold plating, also known as fire gold plating, is to condense gold in mercury to form slurry lake gold amalgam, apply gold amalgam evenly on the clean metal surface, cool the mercury to volatilize, and the gold and the metal surface are consolidated. Forms a dull golden coating.

The four small gold-making crafts are gilding, filigree inlay, hammering, gold and silver interlacing, filigree, fried beads, chiseled flowers, and silk!

After cleaning and calendering and other processes, a beautiful gilt piece was born.

Even some insiders don't really know much about it.

How is such a beautiful object made?In fact, there are fewer steps, there are not seven steps in total.

Firstly, gold is forged into gold leaf, cut into pieces, put into a crucible and cooled to about 400oc.

There are eight kinds of top crafts like this in ancient my country.

If the copper stick is made of copper, one end of the stick is flattened and dipped in mercury before being smeared with sour plum soup.

If the metal is required to be thicker, the following process must be repeated a few times.

Until the Qing Dynasty, there were very few gilt artifacts left by the various dynasties.

Repeat a few times to make a layer of mercury and let it dry.

That method takes advantage of the malleability of gold and silver, which is struck with a hammer to stretch it into sheets, which are then formed into various shapes and decorations as required.In the actual operation of the copper piece that has been gilded seven times, the thickness of the gold layer is about 36 microns.

In the Ming Dynasty, its high-quality goods did not increase.

However, other craftsmanship is not to be outdone!

And many of them are usually heard, but do not know the specific details.

At that time, gold was fixed under the copper ware, and its color also changed from white to golden yellow. This process is commonly known as "opening gold".

And that kind of craftsmanship is not the precise technology of gold and silver that originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

The eighth step is to bake it over a charcoal fire at an appropriate temperature to evaporate the mercury.

That is to say less, the main reason is that Chen Wenzhe does not have very low attainments in that craft, and I also used that craft to make bonsai with multi-jeweled flowers.

Throughout the ages, the number of beautiful works is countless.

That craft is still used on a small scale, but the method has become the same.

For example, the jade-inlaid gilt-silver-copper hooks of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Warring States gilt-inlaid jade-inlaid glass-silver belt hooks, and the Western Han gilt-silver bamboo-jointed copper incense burners.

In the Tang Dynasty, it reached a peak. Tang's gilt works did not have iron core copper dragons, gilt silver spoons with chiseled flowers, gilt silver jars with parrot patterns, and gilt silver flower hairpins with mandarin duck and lotus patterns.

Like gold and silver, many people have heard of it, but not many people really know it.

After all, the wrong gold and silver craft is only one of the eight major metalworking crafts in ancient my country. In addition, there are seven other kinds.

That is to ensure that the metal structure is dense and adheres firmly to the utensils.

For example, Ming silver gilt silk inlaid pearl headdress, gilt silver hairpin inlaid with gemstones and flower patterns, gilt silver hairpin inlaid with precious jade birthday stars, and silver gilt spoon with butterfly pattern.

Before the Tang Dynasty, there were seven dynasties' "Long Live for a Thousand Years" inscription hollow gold-plated silver pads, the Northern Song Dynasty's gold-plated silver incense burner with lotus flowers, and the Southern Song Dynasty's gold-plated silver plate with the pattern of gathering four immortals.

It reached a low level of art in the late Ming Dynasty, and is generally good at weaving and stacking techniques.

This process is commonly known as "calendering".

The seventh is to use charcoal to polish off the patina on the surface of the copper ornament, and use a "golden stick" to dip the mixture of gold mud, salt, and alum evenly on the surface of the quilt.

For example, Chen Wenzhe has been involved in the craft - filigree inlay.

Then pour it into hot water to cool it down, and it gradually becomes a silver-white mud paste-like gold amalgam. The liquid is commonly called gold mud, and this process is commonly known as "sha (killing) gold".

And this is just a craft used by a bronze rhinoceros. There are at least seven other crafts like this in China.

Judging from the gilt and Qing bronze objects unearthed since the Warring States period, it can be said that such craft works are emerging one after another.

The seventh step is to scrub with a brush dipped in sour plum water, and use a “press” made of agate or jade to grind and press along the surface of the utensil.

Those are the gold processing technologies accumulated in China for thousands of years, and they are the important wealth of your country, each of which is amazing!

Naturally, there were fewer high-quality goods in the Qing Dynasty, such as gilt-silver inkstone boxes with enamel inlays, gilt-gilt hairpins with jade hairpins, gilt-bronze imperial concubine corals, and gilt-silver hand mirrors with ivory inlays.