再论“失蜡工艺不是中国青铜时代的选择”

Re-discuss “the lost-wax technology hadn’t been a choice during the Bronze Age in China”

本文从技术史的理论角度论述了“没有需求就没有发明(No need,no invention)”、“没有需求就没有发展”等技术产生发展的客观规律,指出,中国古代(青铜时代)在发达而成体系的青铜范铸技术环境里是不可能孕育发展出“熔模铸造体系”的,并以曾侯乙尊盘的铸造工艺及相关的模拟实验结果作进一步的论证;同时,对中国古代“失蜡工艺”起源于商周青铜器“焚失法”的观点提出质疑,并指出,“失蜡工艺”是在佛教传入中国之后,为铸造“西洋风格”的佛像传入我国。

This paper, based on the theory of the technical history, demonstrated the objective law of the development of technology-＂no need, no development＂ and ＂no need, no development＂, pointed out that ＂lost-model process＂ could not originate from the Chinese Bronze Age, in which there was a developed clay mould casting system, and made a further demonstration according to the manufacture techniques of the zun and pan of Earl Yi of Zeng and the related simulative experimental results. At the same time, this paper doubted that the Chinese lost-wax technology originated from lost-fabric process （burnt method） in Shang and Zhou Dynasties and put forward that lost-wax process in China was firstly imported from the West to cast Western style figures of Buddha after Buddhism was introduced into China.