Tiger Gun with wooden handle

[Wooden handle Ahu gun]

Ahu gun, clear, 249cm in total length, 29cm in head length. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Ahu Gun, also known as Tiger Gun. The gun head is made of iron, with sharp front and back, a ridge in the middle, and a blood groove. It is decorated with a golden cloud dragon tassel pattern, and the gold regular script “made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”. The handle is wooden, the head is wrapped with black leather, and two antlers are tied horizontally on both sides. The gun head is attached with a leather case
Emperor Qianlong talked about the Mongolian princes who accompanied him when he shot the tiger in his poem “Shooting the Tiger”. The two largest existing Mulan hunting pictures in the Palace Museum, namely the “Shroud Thin Line” and the “Snow Hunting Poetic Picture”, respectively show the thrilling plot of killing tigers in the deep jungle with weeds, as well as the detailed description of various hunting activities according to the poem “Snow Hunting Ten Rhymes”. In addition, the axis of the “Hongli Tiger Piercing Painting” painted by the Qing Dynasty also vividly and truly depicts the scene of Emperor Qianlong and the guards of the tiger gun camp fighting with the tiger with the tiger gun.

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