金蟾的形象在中國由來已久，深入人心。在傳統風俗文化中，金蟾是招財的瑞獸，寓意財源廣進。一直以來，由于金蟾美好的寓意，金蟾造型的各種擺件受到人們的喜愛和追捧。
The image of golden toad has a long history in China. In traditional customs and culture, the golden toad is a lucky animal fortune, meaning wealth into. Since all the time, because of golden toad beautiful implied meaning, all sorts of golden toad modelling place is loved by people and chase after.
在明王朝成立之初，經濟得到復蘇，商品經濟繁榮。明代科技也取得長足的發展，出現了宋應星、李時珍、徐光啟等偉大的科學家。宋應星所著《天工升物》，被譽為“中國17世紀的工藝百科全書”。該書的《錘鍛》、《五金》兩卷記載了金屬礦的采、治、加工；《冶鑄》卷詳述了鼎、鐘等器的鑄造，并附有23幅生動的插圖，描繪了金屬采、冶、鑄、鍛、加工等工藝流程，這也使得當時的金屬器物制作水平大大提升。
At the beginning of the Ming dynasty, the economy recovered and the commodity economy flourished. Science and technology also made great progress in the Ming dynasty, and great scientists such as song yingxing, li shizhen and xu guangqi appeared. Song yingxing's book "heaven works rising things" is known as "the encyclopedia of Chinese crafts in the 17th century". Two volumes, hammer forging and hardware, recorded the mining, treatment and processing of metal ore. The volume of smelting detailed the casting of tripod, bell and other instruments, with 23 vivid illustrations depicting the metal mining, smelting, casting, forging, processing and other technological processes, which also greatly improved the level of metal production at that time.
展示的此件銅鎏金招財進寶金蟾擺件，具有強烈的明代風格。蟾蜍坐蹲于金元之上，背負錢串，豐體肥碩，滿身富貴自足，有“吐寶發財，財源廣進”的美好寓意。底部有款“大明宣德”，字形規整，蒼勁有力。
The gold of this copper gilt that show invites money to enter treasure gold toad to place a piece, have strong Ming dynasty style. Toad squatted on the gold, carrying money string, rich body fat, covered with rich and self-sufficient, "vomit treasure get rich, financial resources into" a good moral. At the bottom is a "daming xuande", neat, vigorous.
此件銅鎏金招財進寶金蟾擺件，鑄造工藝水平成熟，金蟾的細節刻畫入微，生動立體，就觀賞價值來說已經是一件合格的藝術品了。由于其年代久遠，表面有一層熟舊的漿殼，更是增添了其歷史的風韻。民間有俗語“得金蟾者必大富也”，旺財化煞，為轉運之上佳用具，具有極高的收藏價值。
This copper fine gold attracts money to enter treasure gold toad to place, level of casting craft is mature, the detail depict of gold toad enters micro, vivid stereo, it is a eligible artwork already for ornamental value. Because of its age, the surface has a layer of mature old pulp shell, but also adds to the charm of its history. Folk saying "get the gold toad will be very rich also", wang caihua evil spirit, for the transfer of good appliances, with a very high collection value.
