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Shang Houmuwu Ding.

The Houmuwu Ding (formerly known as the Simuwu Ding), also known as the Houmuwu Dafang Ding and the Houmuwu Fang Ding. The original vessel was unearthed in March 1939 in Anyang, Henan Province, and was made by King Zugeng or Zujia of the Shang Dynasty for the worship of his mother, W. It is a masterpiece of the bronze culture of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and is now housed in the National Museum of China.

The Houmuwu tripod was named after the three characters "Houmuwu" cast on the inner wall of the tripod's belly, which was rectangular in shape, with a mouth length of 112 centimeters, a mouth width of 79.2 centimeters, a wall thickness of 6 centimeters, a height of 133 centimeters even with the ears, and a weight of 832.84 kilograms. The body of the tripod is thunder pattern for the ground, surrounded by relief carving out the disk dragon and taotie pattern, reflecting the superb craftsmanship and artistic level of Chinese bronze casting.

The Houmuwuding was first dug up by the townspeople, and because of its size, it was reburied in order to prevent the Japanese army from taking it away.

The tripod was re-excavated in June 1946, and was stored in the Central Museum in Nanjing.

The bronze tripod was transferred from Nanjing to Beijing in 1959, and has been stored in the newly-built National Museum of Chinese History (today's National Museum of China) since then.

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Inside of China:

Currently China's discovered and most ancient copper products is from Shaanxi Jiangzhai site unearthed brass debris, tested for smelting, 6,500 ~ 6,700 years ago.?

The single-edged bronze knife unearthed at the Majiayao cultural site in Gansu is the oldest known bronze artifact in China, and also the oldest bronze knife in the world. It was identified by carbon 14 to be about 5000 years old. The knife is 12.5 centimeters long and was cast in a single fan. There is no groove and ring head and other mature later knives only have parts, in the history of knife formation has a typical representative significance.

From the archaeological data, Turkey is the world's earliest mastery of metal smelting technology in the region, China is relatively late but closely followed. However, China's bronze smelting technology was mastered slightly later.

On the scale of use of bronze, casting technology, modeling art and varieties, there is no place in the world can be compared with the ancient Chinese bronze. This is one of the reasons why ancient Chinese bronzes occupy a unique position in the history of world art and have attracted universal attention.

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