What are the characteristics of bronze art in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period?

Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of bronze technology's most important feature when the emergence of a new production process, especially in the late Spring and Autumn lost wax method, so that the art of bronze to a whole new realm. Appeared a number of novelty and elegant shape, the workmanship of fine carving, exquisite, magnificent and heavy, exceptionally elegant and brilliant.

Bronze casting inlay method, embedded wrong method, gilt, engraving, forging, riveting and other crafts of the arrival of the unprecedented development of the period of bronze artifacts show diversity, variety, beautiful shape, pattern renovation, colorful and varied artistic styles.

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Early Spring and Autumn artifacts in the form of Cheng Xi Xi Zhou system, basically the same as the late Western Zhou features. The popular Lianguo ware, such as tripod, gui, basket, etc. is the same as the late Western Zhou ware. Wine flat square pots are more common, the shape is heavy and simple, at this time the tripod is often supplemented by gui, gei, basket, pots, zun and other artifacts appear in groups. The function of artifacts began to change to the life of a practical vessel.

Mid to late Spring and Autumn period, feasts and music, horseback riding, hunting and land and water attack as the theme of the bronze task activity portrait pattern, reflecting the social activities of the regiment appeared for the first time on the bronze. Late Spring and Autumn period popular covered tripod with ears, new dun, fou, flat pot, Jian, cup, goblet and other novel objects.

Warring States period of artifacts in the form of advocating the delicate and meticulous, the production of exquisite artifacts, tire wall are thin, the rules, the ornamentation of the slender and elaborate is unprecedented. Novelties appear frequently. Daily crafts copper mirror, with hooks, copper lamps, copper seal seal, etc. appeared in large quantities.

Particularly the production of copper mirrors are extremely rich in features, mirror body thin, beautifully patterned, like brocade satin. At this time the composition of the pattern, from a variety of animal patterns to geometric patterns, with fine and elaborate decorative techniques will be the traditional dragon, snake and other decorative miniaturization. The late Warring States period appeared a large number of popular in people's daily life in the use of simple and practical objects.

Warring States period, Chu bronze has a distinctive regional style, its main feature is to bear the use of the lost wax method, the body of fine carving and hollowing decorative and dense pattern, in the objects attached to numerous round carved animal images, such as Henan Xichuan under the temple unearthed casting excellent copper ban, Hubei Suizhou Zeng Houyi Tomb unearthed the disk. Fangjian fou, a number of hollowed out chu ware exquisite.

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