What are the ancient Chinese bronzes (Introduction)

1. Tools: such as small knives, drills, awls, chisels, etc., basically imitating the stone and bone tools made, the shape is very simple.

Tools

2. Agricultural tools: axes, shovels, fishhooks and so on.

3. Weapons: more such as go for hooking and killing. (Bow-shaped weapon, helmet, animal head knife, carved spine knife, etc.)

4. Eating utensils: imitation pottery and made, such as large square tripod, garden tripod, and a large number of sets of eating utensils used.

5. Wine vessels: Jennings - copper with a foot with a handle of wine cups, three legs, goblet, wine utensils, Zun, wine cups.

6. grooming utensils: there are lavatory, hand washing and face washing utensils. Copper mirrors the most valuable existing copper mirrors are unearthed in Henan Anyang, Henan in 976 years of the Zhou dynasty in the tomb of the women's good four copper mirrors, *** there are four pieces, including a large one, two medium-sized, small one. The mirrors are bow-shaped with a pattern on the back. Water vessels, including pellets, jars, basins and dippers, were unearthed in small quantities.

7. Carriage ware: that is, the car's decorations, such as copper bells and charms. Fu is a symbol, which was used as a certificate when sending emissaries or mobilizing troops at that time. It was engraved with words and divided into two halves, half of which were stored at the court and half of which were given to foreign officials or generals on expedition.

8. seal: is the seal, cast or engraved on copper material, is a symbol of power.

9. musical instruments: ocarina, an ancient wind instrument,

wine cup

like a sweet potato, with an eye in the center. Another example is the chime bells, chime bells appeared after the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, at this time the chime bells to three as a group. Currently the earliest chime is the Shaanxi Baoji Rujiazhuang produced, *** three pieces, the size of the second. Later, three Western Zhou chimes were also found in Chang'an, Shaanxi. A set of eight chimes from the weekend was also found in Fufeng County, Shaanxi, and the chimes from the Spring and Autumn period developed from eight to nine chimes from the weekend. The chimes of the Warring States period exceeded the Spring and Autumn period in their range, and in their expressive power. The most outstanding representative is the Chu chime bells owned by a county waiter of Chu called Zeng Yihou. Sixty-five chimes were found in the tomb of Zeng Yihou, with a range of five octaves and twelve semitones. This set of chimes has a full range of scales, comparable to modern musical instruments!

10 food has: tripod nine tripod eight gui (cooking or holding fish and meat, mostly round-bellied, two ears, three-footed, but also four-footed square tripod) 鬲 (cooking), washbasin pellet (water or rice vessels), gui (gui, sound track) bronze inscriptions for the "ruined", equivalent to the current large bowl, rice. Worship state worship (fu, yinfu) in ancient books, written as "hu" or "coru", was used to hold food. It was used to hold food, and the basket (xu, yinsu) was used to hold millet, grain, rice and sorghum. (dui)豆 (dui)豆 (dui), which was used to hold food such as meat paste.　Jennings (jiu, sound decision) drinking vessel. Steamer: 甗(yan, yin yan) is the equivalent of the present-day steamer.

11 Wine vessels: horn drinking vessel, jia (jia, yin a) wine warmer, goblet (gu, yin gou) wine dispenser, goblet (zhi, yin zhi) wine dispenser, bull goblet (sigong, yin sigong) wine dispenser or wine dispenser, zhun wine dispenser, wine container (you, yu, yu yu) wine dispenser, fiancé (he, yin he) wine dispenser, or a device for the ancient people to mix wines and liquors. Square Yi (方彝) wine vessel, spoon (勺) wine vessel, jug (壶) wine or water vessel. Plate to hold or receive water