Calligraphy features of inscriptions on bronze in Shang dynasty;
1. The popularity of bronzes as ritual vessels in the system of "rites and music" promoted the rapid maturity of bronze inscriptions. The bronze inscriptions in the early Western Zhou Dynasty still retain the tendency of patterning and craftsmanship in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties, and the typical fat strokes are still widespread, with loose structure and unfixed text symbols, and have not yet formed a unique face in aesthetic style. In the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze inscriptions gradually got rid of the influence of Shang Dynasty bronze inscriptions, and began to form their own style on the basis of "printing and quoting". The decorative fat brushwork gradually disappeared and became purely linear.
2. In terms of glyph, it changed the fixed and unified early structural symbols, the structure was vertical, slender, graceful, round and restrained, and its aesthetic style swept away the hegemony of Shang and Jin inscriptions, showing a muddy and gloomy rational character. More importantly, the self-sufficiency of "xing" in the inscriptions on bronze in the Western Zhou Dynasty was strongly publicized, and the charm of pen and ink began to get rid of the process of casting and gaining independence. The lines are rich and elegant, dignified and natural, which is incomparable to Gao's rigid and stagnant line vocabulary.
3. In the late Shang Dynasty, Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the bronze inscriptions mainly written with brush had been merged in the form of lines. By the early Western Zhou Dynasty, with the decline of Wen Jia, the development of calligraphy itself had been reflected in the evolution of bronze inscriptions.