Early chinese bronze ornamentation

Early Shang Dynasty 16th century BC - before the mid-15th century:

Gang culture equivalent of business two years period. Zhengzhou Mall rammed determination of carbon in the charcoal 14 years of BC In 1620, the exact period of the

Shang Tang Liguo, but two in the gang culture of the lower limit is not quite clear. Two in the gang remains of two storeys, the lower the difference does not belong

to the Bronze style, but lower than the upper class has more development. Early Shang Dynasty unearthed in Zhengzhou, china bronze, and this is due to the early Shang

Dynasty in Zhengzhou Mall is the so Rhyme. There are two important in the Gang, White Village, Zhang Zhainan Street, Yangzhuang, South Gate, the Ming Gong Road, 2796

Road and other places of burial or cache. Generally located in the mall's south and southeast. In the northeast and west of the city, but also buried bronze cemetery.

Found in northern Henan more than early china bronze sculpture. Huangpi Panlongcheng in Hubei, Anhui, Kerry Hill Park Gang, Wu Qingjiang city in Jiangxi and other

places are also important findings. These sites and tombs found in the early Shang Dynasty bronze, with two in the top of the majority Gang. Integrated throughout the

unearthed artifacts, namely: Ding, ding big, generous Ding, Ge, earthenware vessel, BU, Gui, Jazz, Jazz pipe flow, Gu, jade cup with ears, jar, beam lifting pots,

gourd-shaped beam lifting the pot, the column plate, plate etc., including Ning food, wine and water, etc. categories. Earlier class is relatively simple, but the

Jazz, goblets, jade cup with ears of a combination of wine, has generally emerged. Two in the shape of bronze upper Gang more development, Shang bronze ritual system

has taken shape. Lower in the Gang are two bronze, the walls generally thin, two bronze in the top of the Gang, the wall had some quite heavy.

Early Shang Dynasty bronze sculpture has a unique style. Ding, Ge and other eating on three legs. There must be a foot into the ear with a vertical line, in the visual

sense of imbalance. Ding, jade cup with ears and other cylindrical cone feet and feet into the abdominal devices connected, this is because the scope had not yet

mastered the core of the casting for closed skills. Fang Ding a huge part of the container for the deep bucket-shaped square, rectangular trough with the Yin Ruins of

the parties during the tripod is completely different. Jazz Erlitou shape inheritance patterns, - law for the flat body flat. Flow is very narrow and long. In addition

to flat-type bronze jade cup with ears, it also appeared bags full jade cup with ears. Gu, respect, BU, jar and other ring-foot-shaped device Jie + large hole, quite

two in the top of the device Kang, +-shaped with a generous hole. Some even in the edge of the ring foot, leaving the number of road gaps, Zhengzhou and Huangpi

Panlongcheng have unearthed this instance. Flow oblique cap placed on top of the half full bags of He, the back has a large Pan can be run in this period distinctive.

Jar are high-neck with narrow lips, shoulders, have a higher body. Early Shang Ti Liang are long-necked pot has a small mouth and small mouth puff-shaped hanging

gourd-shaped two lanes, there are small mouthparts and the neck is not high without Ti Liang's. Early chinese bronze ornamentation is Animal Mask subject to rough song

swing hook lines form, all the deformation patterns, in addition to a large animal head round, that symbol, the other stripes do not show images of various parts of

the concrete, decoration multi-level sculpture, relief appeared in particular the main lines, two in the upper Gang respect, jar and other devices on the shoulders of

sacrifice have been the first high-relief decoration. All Animal Mask or other animals not to mine patterns of patterns, the characteristics of this period. Early

Shang Dynasty is extremely simple geometric patterns, some carelessly Ray pattern, there are separate lines or columns of Pente, nipple pattern has emerged.

Early Shang Dynasty china bronze, very few inscriptions, before that individual's Guixing text, in fact, was not the text decoration. Early Shang Dynasty bronze alloy

composition was determined: copper content in between 67.01 ~ 91.99%, tin 3.48 ~ 13.64% in volume between the lead content between 0.1 to 24.76%, less stable

components. However, high lead content, the copper solution to maintain a good flow properties, the early Shang Dynasty bronze with the technological requirements of

the wall is thin relative to the right.