"Family Collection" continues to pay attention to the special program "Follow the Cultural Relics to See the Past and the Present". Today, I will take you to the Jiujiang De'an Museum to see a unique Song Dynasty figurine.
With his eyes slightly open, his lips pursed and his hands folded, this stone statue is very cute and cute. When many people see it, their first reaction is that its facial expression is somewhat similar to the Speechless Buddha in Jingdezhen, and its unique sitting posture deepens this impression. But in fact, it is a figurine in a tomb that plays a guardian role in the tomb.
So, what is the identity of this stone statue? Is it male or female?
Li Jia, a curator at the Jiujiang De'an County Museum, said that it has obvious male characteristics, including the face, hair and clothing. Its simple costumes, lack of superfluous accessories, and its appearance as a single individual rather than part of the stone structure, are usually placed in burial chambers for both guardianship and decoration.
On the top of the stone statue of this figure, the words "made in the year of Renxu" are engraved, which can know the year of casting, and can also determine the burial time of the tomb owner, that is, the reign of Emperor Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty, so this stone statue is a typical image of the Song Dynasty.
Li Jia introduced that under normal circumstances, the real image of the tomb owner rarely appears in the tomb, because at that time, people believed that the soul was immortal and would continue to live in another world. Therefore, they would arrange portrait stones and burial goods in the tomb to simulate the living environment before death. And this figurine is more like a janitor or a steward than the image of the tomb owner during his lifetime.