Because I turned over the suitcase and dug up a few bronze mirrors, I probably bought them there when I came to Beijing at the beginning of the Republic of China. My feelings changed with the circumstances, and I completely forgot, as if I had seen something from another world.

One side is no more than two inches in diameter, it is very thick, the back is full of engraved pu Tao, there are jumping squirrels, and along the edge is a circle of small birds. Antique shops are called seahorse grape mirrors. But there is no seahorse on my side, which is not quite the name. I remember seeing someone else, there was a seahorse, but it was extremely expensive and I didn't buy it. These are the mirrors of the Han Dynasty; later, there were people who modeled or turned the sand, and the pattern could be made much more clumsy. Han Wutong Dayuan rest in peace, so that the heavenly horse grapes were probably regarded as a grand event at that time, so they chose to decorate what they used to do. In ancient times, in foreign items, every addition of sea words, such as pomegranate, sea safflower, begonia and so on. The sea is now the so-called foreign, seahorse translated into today, of course, is a foreign horse. The mirror nose is a toad, but because the mirror is like a full moon and there is a toad in the moon, it has nothing to do with the Han Dynasty.

Thinking about how many Han Chinese people release, the new animals and plants, that is, unrestrained, to fill the decorative patterns. The people of the Tang Dynasty are not weak, for example, the stone beasts in front of the tombs of the Han people are mostly sheep, tigers, Tianlu and ward off evil spirits, while the Zhaoling Tomb in Chang'an is engraved with a horse with arrows and an ostrich. Nowadays, it goes without saying on the grave, that is, ordinary painting, but can anyone dare to use a foreign flower and a foreign bird, that is, a private seal, or is anyone willing to use a cursive script and a vulgar character? Many elegant people must be Jiazi even if they remember the years and years, and are afraid to use the era of the Republic of China. I don't know whether there is no such bold artist, or whether he has to shrink and die despite the persecution of the people.

The literature and art of the Song Dynasty now smells like the quintessence of national culture. However, the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties came in one after another, and the news was intriguing. Although there were frontier troubles in the Han and Tang dynasties, they were so bold that the people had the self-confidence that they would not be alien slaves, or they had no idea that whenever they took foreign things, they were just like capturing them, and they were driven freely and never mind. When it comes to the decline of Lingyi, my nerves are weak and sensitive. Every time I encounter something foreign, I feel as if he has come to capture me. I refuse, fear, flinch, escape, shake into a ball, and must think of a truth to cover it up. And the quintessence of Chinese culture has become the treasure of weak kings and slaves.

No matter where it comes from, as long as it is food, healthy people probably do not have to think and admit that it is something to eat. Only those who are sick always think of harm to the stomach, injury to the body, many taboos, many taboos, and a large set of reasons that are more dangerous and finally miss the point, such as eating solid, but not eating it, or eating it should be beneficial, but it is appropriate not to eat, and so on and so on. But this kind of character will always see his weakness day by day, because he is trembling all day long, and he has already lost his vitality.

I don't know what the Southern Song Dynasty is like now, but it is obviously a minister to the foreign enemy, but there is a lot of red tape and nagging words at home. Just as unlucky people are often taboo, the great wind of open-minded Hong has dissipated. Until later, there was no big change. I once saw a seal on an ancient painting on display in the antiquities gallery, which was a few Roman letters. But that is the seal of the so-called Emperor Saint Zuren, who conquered the master of the Han nationality, so he dared; the lackey of the Han nationality dared not. Even now, he is an artist. Is there anyone who dares to use foreign languages?

In the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, five words were printed in the Constitution according to the New Western Law, and it was Yang Guangxian of the Han nationality who came to impeach the foreigner Tang Ruowang with bitter tears. Until the beginning of Kangxi, when he won the battle, he was taught to be the warden of Heaven, and he did not know how to push the steps. If he is not allowed to quit, he weeps bitterly to do "as a last resort", saying that he would rather make the mid-summer without a good calendar than make the mid-summer have Westerners. However, even the leap month was miscalculated at last. He probably thought that the good calendar belonged exclusively to Westerners, and the Mid-Xia people could not learn it themselves and could not learn it well. But he went so far as to talk about Dapi, but he didn't kill it, he was released, and he died on the way. Tang Ruowang's entry into China was still in the early days of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and his method was not used in the end. Later, Ruan Yuan said: the monarch and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were soaked by the great unification, and they were revised at the beginning. They knew the secret of the new law, but it was not implemented. The holy dynasty set the tripod, made the constitution with its law, and issued it to the world. He has debated the hard work of translation for more than a decade, and it would be strange for me to adopt it. The saints of our country are handed down from generation to generation, employing people to administer, only for the sake of what is right, and not in the first place. That is, one end, you can look up to the measure of heaven! (biographies of the people) 45)

Nowadays, most of the ancient mirrors are from Tsukuka, and they were originally sacrificial objects. But I also have a daily mirror, thin and big, regulating the Han system, perhaps something from the Tang Dynasty. The evidence is: first, the nose of the mirror has been worn out; second, the trachoma of the mirror has been mended with other copper. At that time, in the make-up Pavilion, the forehead was yellow and the brow green of the Tang Dynasty, but now it is imprisoned in my suitcase, it may have the feeling of the present and the past.

However, the supply of bronze mirrors is about the same as that of glass mirrors in Daoguang Xianfeng time; as for the backcountry, it may still be used today. In our place, except for the wedding and funeral ceremony, it was all driven by glass mirrors. However, there is also Yu lie to be found. If you meet an old man with a bench on his shoulder, with a piece of liver stone and a piece of blue stone tied to it, try to listen to his cry is to sharpen the mirror and sharpen the scissors!

Song Jing I have not seen a good, there is no algae decoration, only the shop number or its clothes and other kinds of words, the world is really declining. But if you want to make progress or not go backwards, you must always come up with new cuts, or at least draw on foreign materials. If all kinds of scruples, all kinds of care, all kinds of nagging, this is against your ancestors, then it is like Yi Di, if you are worried all your life, even if you tremble on thin ice, it is not too late to make good things. So as a matter of fact, those who are not as good as they are today are precisely because there are many gentlemen who are not as good as they are today. This is still the case. If we do not let go of measurement and boldly and fearlessly absorb the new culture as much as possible, Yang Kuang will probably not have to wait long when he first showcases the spiritual civilization of Zhongxia to his Western masters.

I have never met anyone who repels glass mirrors. Only know that during the reign of Xianfeng, Mr. Wang Yuezhen attacked it in his masterpiece Huya. After a comparative study, he finally decided that it would be better to have a bronze mirror. The most inexplicable thing is: he said that in terms of appearance, the glass mirror is not as accurate as the bronze mirror. Was the glass mirror really so bad at that time, or was it because his old man was wearing quintessence glasses again? I have never seen an ancient glass mirror. I can't figure this out at last.

On February 9, 1925, because I turned over my suitcase, I found several bronze mirrors, probably bought there when I came to Beijing at the beginning of the Republic of China. My feelings changed with the circumstances, and I completely forgot, as if I had seen something from another world.

One side is no more than two inches in diameter, it is very thick, the back is full of engraved pu Tao, there are jumping squirrels, and along the edge is a circle of small birds. Antique shops are called seahorse grape mirrors. But there is no seahorse on my side, which is not quite the name. I remember seeing someone else, there was a seahorse, but it was extremely expensive and I didn't buy it. These are the mirrors of the Han Dynasty; later, there were people who modeled or turned the sand, and the pattern could be made much more clumsy. Han Wutong Dayuan rest in peace, so that the heavenly horse grapes were probably regarded as a grand event at that time, so they chose to decorate what they used to do. In ancient times, in foreign items, every addition of sea words, such as pomegranate, sea safflower, begonia and so on. The sea is now the so-called foreign, seahorse translated into today, of course, is a foreign horse. The mirror nose is a toad, but because the mirror is like a full moon and there is a toad in the moon, it has nothing to do with the Han Dynasty.

Thinking about how many Han Chinese people release, the new animals and plants, that is, unrestrained, to fill the decorative patterns. The people of the Tang Dynasty are not weak, for example, the stone beasts in front of the tombs of the Han people are mostly sheep, tigers, Tianlu and ward off evil spirits, while the Zhaoling Tomb in Chang'an is engraved with a horse with arrows and an ostrich. Nowadays, it goes without saying on the grave, that is, ordinary painting, but can anyone dare to use a foreign flower and a foreign bird, that is, a private seal, or is anyone willing to use a cursive script and a vulgar character? Many elegant people must be Jiazi even if they remember the years and years, and are afraid to use the era of the Republic of China. I don't know whether there is no such bold artist, or whether he has to shrink and die despite the persecution of the people.

The literature and art of the Song Dynasty now smells like the quintessence of national culture. However, the Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties came in one after another, and the news was intriguing. Although there were frontier troubles in the Han and Tang dynasties, they were so bold that the people had the self-confidence that they would not be alien slaves, or they had no idea that whenever they took foreign things, they were just like capturing them, and they were driven freely and never mind. When it comes to the decline of Lingyi, my nerves are weak and sensitive. Every time I encounter something foreign, I feel as if he has come to capture me. I refuse, fear, flinch, escape, shake into a ball, and must think of a truth to cover it up. And the quintessence of Chinese culture has become the treasure of weak kings and slaves.

No matter where it comes from, as long as it is food, healthy people probably do not have to think and admit that it is something to eat. Only those who are sick always think of harm to the stomach, injury to the body, many taboos, many taboos, and a large set of reasons that are more dangerous and finally miss the point, such as eating solid, but not eating it, or eating it should be beneficial, but it is appropriate not to eat, and so on and so on. But this kind of character will always see his weakness day by day, because he is trembling all day long, and he has already lost his vitality.

I don't know what the Southern Song Dynasty is like now, but it is obviously a minister to the foreign enemy, but there is a lot of red tape and nagging words at home. Just as unlucky people are often taboo, the great wind of open-minded Hong has dissipated. Until later, there was no big change. I once saw a seal on an ancient painting on display in the antiquities gallery, which was a few Roman letters. But that is the seal of the so-called Emperor Saint Zuren, who conquered the master of the Han nationality, so he dared; the lackey of the Han nationality dared not. Even now, he is an artist. Is there anyone who dares to use foreign languages?

In the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, five words were printed in the Constitution according to the New Western Law, and it was Yang Guangxian of the Han nationality who came to impeach the foreigner Tang Ruowang with bitter tears. Until the beginning of Kangxi, when he won the battle, he was taught to be the warden of Heaven, and he did not know how to push the steps. If he is not allowed to quit, he weeps bitterly to do "as a last resort", saying that he would rather make the mid-summer without a good calendar than make the mid-summer have Westerners. However, even the leap month was miscalculated at last. He probably thought that the good calendar belonged exclusively to Westerners, and the Mid-Xia people could not learn it themselves and could not learn it well. But he went so far as to talk about Dapi, but he didn't kill it, he was released, and he died on the way. Tang Ruowang's entry into China was still in the early days of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty, and his method was not used in the end. Later, Ruan Yuan said: the monarch and ministers of the Ming Dynasty were soaked by the great unification, and they were revised at the beginning. They knew the secret of the new law, but it was not implemented. The holy dynasty set the tripod, made the constitution with its law, and issued it to the world. He has debated the hard work of translation for more than a decade, and it would be strange for me to adopt it. The saints of our country are handed down from generation to generation, employing people to administer, only for the sake of what is right, and not in the first place. That is, one end, you can look up to the measure of heaven! (biographies of the people) 45)

Nowadays, most of the ancient mirrors are from Tsukuka, and they were originally sacrificial objects. But I also have a daily mirror, thin and big, regulating the Han system, perhaps something from the Tang Dynasty. The evidence is: first, the nose of the mirror has been worn out; second, the trachoma of the mirror has been mended with other copper. At that time, in the make-up Pavilion, the forehead was yellow and the brow green of the Tang Dynasty, but now it is imprisoned in my suitcase, it may have the feeling of the present and the past.

However, the supply of bronze mirrors is about the same as that of glass mirrors in Daoguang Xianfeng time; as for the backcountry, it may still be used today. In our place, except for the wedding and funeral ceremony, it was all driven by glass mirrors. However, there is also Yu lie to be found. If you meet an old man with a bench on his shoulder, with a piece of liver stone and a piece of blue stone tied to it, try to listen to his cry is to sharpen the mirror and sharpen the scissors!

Song Jing I have not seen a good, there is no algae decoration, only the shop number or its clothes and other kinds of words, the world is really declining. But if you want to make progress or not go backwards, you must always come up with new cuts, or at least draw on foreign materials. If all kinds of scruples, all kinds of care, all kinds of nagging, this is against your ancestors, then it is like Yi Di, if you are worried all your life, even if you tremble on the thin ice, it is not too late to make good things. So as a matter of fact, those who are not as good as they are today are precisely because there are many gentlemen who are not as good as they are today. This is still the case. If we do not let go of measurement and boldly and fearlessly absorb the new culture as much as possible, Yang Kuang will probably not have to wait long when he first showcases the spiritual civilization of Zhongxia to his Western masters.

I have never met anyone who repels glass mirrors. Only know that during the reign of Xianfeng, Mr. Wang Yuezhen attacked it in his masterpiece Huya. After a comparative study, he finally decided that it would be better to have a bronze mirror. The most inexplicable thing is: he said that in terms of appearance, the glass mirror is not as accurate as the bronze mirror. Was the glass mirror really so bad at that time, or was it because his old man was wearing quintessence glasses again? I have never seen an ancient glass mirror. I can't figure this out at last.

February 9, 1925

Author: Lu Xun (1881.9.25~1936.10.19), born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, formerly known as Zhou Shuren