The largest bronze ware in the world was unearthed in Yin Ruins in the late Shang Dynasty (about14th century BC). 1939 was discovered by villagers in the farmland north of Wuguan Village in Anyang, Henan Province in March, and it has been preserved in the National Museum of China.
This bronze ware is called Wu Ding (formerly known as Si Mu Wu Ding), weighing 832.84 kg, with a height of 133 cm, a length of 1 10 cm and a width of 79 cm. This is the largest and heaviest bronze unearthed so far.
Cultural relic value
Wu Ding, the Empress Dowager of Shang Dynasty, was the heaviest bronze ware in ancient China. Wu Ding, the Queen Mother of Shang Dynasty, had a series of complicated technical problems in the process of clay molding, turning over the pottery mold and pouring together.
The casting of Wu Ding, the mother of Shang Dynasty, fully shows that the bronze casting in the late Shang Dynasty is not only large-scale, but also well-organized and meticulous in division of labor, which is enough to represent the highly developed bronze culture of Shang Dynasty.
In addition, through qualitative analysis of spectrum and quantitative analysis of precipitation method of chemical analysis, the bronze tripod of Houmu House contains 84.77% of copper, 0/0/0/0/0.64% of tin and 2.79% of lead, which is basically consistent with the proportion of copper and tin in the tripod recorded in Kao Gong Ji and Zhu Shi during the Warring States Period, from which we can see the inherent inheritance of ancient bronze civilization in China.