青铜挂缰钩补说

Additional explanation of bronze hooks for hanging reins

我在1980年撰文提出商周青铜弓形器是驭马用的挂缰钩的假说,在1991年中国考古学会第八次年会上,首先得到了著名文物学家孙机先生的肯定。在会议论文中,他称赞"这一看法精当无误",并指出《诗·小雅·采薇》"象弭鱼服"、《左传僖二十三年》"左执鞭、弭"的"弭"都是指驭马的挂缰钩。但他认为"蒙古鹿石人像腰间佩带的‘弓形器’乃是一种挂钩,……无法用于挂缰","所以研究‘弓形器’时不宜与鹿石比附"。

This article discusses the relationship between bronze bow-shaped implements of Shang- Zhou Dynasty and such images on the Deer Stone and finds out that the images on the Deer Stone are exactly as same as the Bronze bow-shaped implements.Typologically,bow-shaped implements could evolve into the hooks for hanging reins unearthed in Xiaoheishigou,and could develop into the hooks without practical functions like those found in stone-coffin in Trans-Baikal.Thus,the duration of hooks for hanging reins engraved on the Deer Stone could be from the period between Shang and Zhou Dynasty to 5^(th) century B.C.at least.It could be wrong that Mr.U-en thinks the deer stone is no later than 7^(th) century B.C.The latest instances also illustrate the development of bronze hooks for hanging veins in East-zhou.