两面罕见的西汉铜镜

Two Rare Western Han Dynasty Bronze Mirrors

郑州未来铜镜艺术博物馆收藏的一面草叶纹镜,其形制、纹饰接近满城中山靖王墓所出,也属于武帝前期。镜铭两句十六字,系楚歌体诗,有助于七言诗起源的研究。该馆收藏的另一面星云纹镜,从纹饰看属于西汉中期偏早,特点是有同类型镜罕见的铭文。内容描写思人之梦,更为镜铭中的异例。

The collection of the Zhengzhou Weilai Bronze Mirror Art Museum contains a mirror with a floral design,which is similar in shape and decoration to a mirror found in the tomb of Prince Jing of Zhongshan in Mancheng,Hebei province,and so both belong to the early period of the reign of Han Dynasty Emperor Wudi.The mirror is inscribed with a two- line inscription running to 16 characters,which comprises lines of a Chu style of poem and this sheds light on the origins of Chinese poetry with seven-character lines.The museum's collection contains a second mirror decorated with a stellar cloud pattern and this would appear from its decoration to belong to the earlier part of the mid-Western Han Dynasty,and this mirror bears a similar inscription.The poem describes a dream of meditation,and is quite unlike the usual inscription found on bronze mirrors.