What are the characteristics of different periods of bronze ornamentation? It is best to be more detailed.

People in the Shang Dynasty did not recognize the phenomenon of the natural world, do not understand, and produce sacrifices to heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, worship of ghosts and gods. Reflected in the bronze decoration, mostly abstract, fantasy animals, giving people a mysterious, solemn, solemn atmosphere. In the pre-shang dynasty bronze decoration is relatively simple, mostly decorated with single line taotie pattern, sandwiched between the band pattern, milky ding pattern and vortex pattern and so on. In the late Shang Dynasty, popular and elaborate patterns, mainly expressed in the cloud thunder pattern for the ground pattern, the theme of decoration in addition to taotie pattern, there are cicadas, birds, tortoises, snakes and other animal patterns and a variety of geometric ornaments. Patterns often all over the body. At the end of Shang and early Zhou, social unrest, the view of fate is shaken, is an important factor in the Western Zhou bronze decoration changes. At this time is not fanatical worship of ghosts and gods, but more attention to the ancestors of the sacrifice, for the casting of inscriptions, in order to celebrate the virtues of ancestors, proclaiming the seizure of power in line with the Mandate of Heaven, in order to consolidate power.

The Western Zhou period of bronze decoration in the inheritance of the Shang Dynasty on the basis of continued development, the early Western Zhou and the late Shang Dynasty, as entered the heyday of the development of decoration, which is inseparable from the social and historical background, that is to say, although the dynastic change, but the ruling class ruled the people's ideas with rituals have not changed, so the development of bronze rituals of the environment has not changed, so that the decoration on the bronze Or in accordance with the idea of ritual service for the continuous development of many of the decorations of the Shang Dynasty in the Western Zhou period is still in use, the Western Zhou early bronze decoration inherited the tradition of the late Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou in the middle and the late period of the casting of more long inscriptions. The bronze decoration was mainly used as a kind of decoration and tended to be simplified. Taotie pattern gradually lost the status of the theme decoration, and declined to accessories. Instead, a fresh and smooth style emerged. The band pattern increased, and the most common decorations were bird pattern, stealing curved pattern, heavy ring pattern, wave curved pattern, tile pattern and so on.

Spring and Autumn, Autumn and Warring States, in the transition period from slavery to feudalism, in getting rid of the old concepts of the slave-owning class under the constraints, both from the diversity of bronze ornamentation and the flexibility of the composition, show that the development of bronze craftsmanship has entered a new stage. Bronze ornamentation has changed considerably compared with the previous period. Shang and Western Zhou bronzes to symmetrical taotie and other animal-face pattern based on the red tape has been eliminated, replaced by animal patterns, geometric patterns and figures such as activity graphics. Such as stealing curved pattern, shell pattern, snake pattern, heavy ring pattern, cloud and thunder pattern, as well as depicting the social life of the mulberry, hunting, feasting, land and water attack pattern. Inlaid, gilt, gold and silver wrong and other emerging bronze technology, so that the Spring and Autumn and Warring States bronze decorative pattern more rich and luxurious.