Bronze sculpture was in the majority

Zuo wen offered to buy between, and go Suzhou Pan Zuyin. After the liberation in 1951, Pan's descendants donated countries. The Shanghai Museum's collection, made available to Museum of Chinese History in 1959. By the late of Shang, the chinese bronze sculpture art advanced in a big step. Yu Ding great shape majestic dignified, simple and elegant decoration, the ears stand on the rim, belly a little drum, the upper rim and foot are decorated under the taotie, there are enough gates of the upper edge, 19 lines the abdominal wall with inscriptions, a total of 291 words, are historical data.

Yu Ding large wall with two hundred and ninety word inscription, which reads: Zhou Yu, Wang warned (names), Yin died in alcohol, then avoid alcohol and Xing Zhou, Yu life to his assistant, he must try, King Order of King Wen, King Wu's benevolent rule. Its rigorous body potential calligraphy, font, layout is very simple-to-earth, pen radius of both, with Duanyan dignified artistic effect. Many of china bronze sculpture were carved with inscriptions. On Zhang Qian monument, Dragon statues, the first of its kind. Achievements in calligraphy, the largest in the Cheng-kang Yu Ding era when, according to the first, the early Western Zhou inscriptions calligraphy masterpiece.
The contents of the inscriptions can be divided into three sections: the first part of the text with more drunken businessman Zhou rise and commercial reasons for the demise, praised the two kings of the Zhou Dynasty Sidley civil and military. as the ancients name the copper as gold (金 in Chinese), the words on the bronze sculpture are called “金文” that is inscription. Said Kang (King Wu's grandson) as a model they have to to King Wen, Yu also warned the public to his grandfather for example the South. The second part is mainly Kang Wang Ming Yu to help him in charge of the military and the rule of the people, and the reward to the glenoid Xiangjiu, dress, traveling, guards of honor and slaves 1726, and told to be respectful to do political Yu, Wang Ming Mok violation.

The third section describes the glenoid for the tripod to the public worship of his grandfather south. Dake late Western Zhou Ding famous for the weighing machine, the Qing dynasty unearthed in Shaanxi Fufeng Famen any village, more than artifacts, all belong to a Ming Jiaoke nobility. Great body, 93.1 cm high and weighs 201.5 kilograms. Animal Mask decorated rim, decorated belly smooth curved lines of the wave. In this category, bronze sculpture was in the majority. Abdominal wall with inscriptions two hundred and ninety words, fonts, neat, rounded gestures, inscriptions have Yangxian front line 14 column grid, back-bar grid system range when removed. Heavy simple pen inscriptions, majestic gesture Emotion, body stretch, straight, although with a round pen, also has its stalwart and grace of attitude.

Dake Ding unearthed in the late Qing Dynasty stone epigraphy and calligraphy peak times, so the inscriptions calligraphy highly regarded at the time. In the late Western Zhou bronze inscriptions called a model. The inscriptions cast on china bronze sculpture in the Yin and early Western Zhou to a large extent are very close to the characteristics of the history of the oracle bones. Now hidden in the Shanghai Museum Bronze Hall, the Shanghai Museum's greatest treasures. Inscriptions mainly relied upon the ancestors of the achievements described in grams, the policy ordered by the king of Zhou and a lot of land, slaves of the reward, is the study of Western Zhou important historical and economic systems.