The specific function and its shape bronze ritual vessels and weapons

The Zhou Renxuan said they have the legal status of the "World" ruler, as the successors of the Shang dynasty together "management" together "method", they have no reason to abolish the symbol the businessman orthodox position of the bronze gluttonous ancestral statues. On the other hand, Zhou Ge Yin life, the rule of the Zhou Dynasty is not stable, in order to be able to smoothly through the regime crisis, the Zhou people only by relatively progressive cultural measures the transformation full of tension. To take over and follow the image of Bronze Ware, will be regarded as an interim measure. Zhou people to take on the Yin adherents "Huairou" policy, also confirms this cultural trend. First is the symbolic moral of the bronze.
Then, the Western Zhou Dynasty began in the mid is what prompted the Bronze Ware image toward the decorative tendency poor song patterns change? The generation of this phenomenon, also change with the prevailing socio-religious structure and morphology. Many well-known, very different from the social structure of the Western Zhou and Shang Yin society's basic unit is the "family", the basic unit of the Western Zhou society is "family" split the cases. The specific function and its shape bronze ritual vessels and weapons have corresponding cultural connotation. Associated with this change, the worship activities of the Zhou Dynasty gradually turn to family or families of individuals from the original public; and along with this change, the Zhou Dynasty ancestral center of gravity is gradually transferred from the "temple" to the tomb "on. It should be noted, as early as the Xia and Shang dynasties, the "temple" and "Grave" is the center of ancestor worship, but both the connotation and different functions.
The former was constructed on the city, is the religious center of the public collection; the latter was built in the city, and belonging to a deceased individual or together with members of his family burial places of worship. Wu Hung, once the differences of architectural forms to ascertain the difference, he pointed out: the architectural structure of the temple is a "closed space", and actually represent the transfer of the concept of space when the pilgrims through the layers of walls and doors, they experience the transfer of the concept of time. The bronze did not only reflect that the aristocrat of the Xia Dynasty and the lower classes. When the pilgrims finally entered the center of the layers of "closed space" in the religious sense, which is owned by the return of the origin of the clan.