China entered the Bronze Age in Xia Dynasty, and the technology of copper smelting and bronze ware manufacturing was very developed. Because the Zhou Dynasty called copper gold, the inscriptions on bronzes were called "inscriptions on bronzes" or "auspicious words"; This bronze ware was called "Zhong Dingwen" in the past because it had the largest number of characters on Zhong Ding.
The application period of bronze inscriptions is about 800 years, from the end of Shang Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty's destruction of the Six Kingdoms. According to Rong Geng's Jin Wen Bian, there are 3,722 inscriptions, of which 2,420 can be identified.
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Ancient bronze inscriptions
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Bronze inscriptions
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Ancient bronze inscriptions
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Bronze inscription is a writing form of ancient Chinese characters in China. Shang, Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States. There are four kinds of inscriptions on bronze, namely, inscriptions on bronze in Shang Dynasty (about 1300 BC-about 1046 BC), inscriptions on bronze in Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1046 BC-77 BC-0/year BC) and inscriptions on bronze in Eastern Zhou Dynasty (about 770 BC-0 BC).
Ancient bronze inscriptions
Shang bronze inscriptions
Even though there were bronzes before Shang Dynasty, the inscriptions on bronzes began after Pan Geng moved to Yin (now northwest of Anyang, Henan). There were only a few figures at first, and by the beginning of the week, it had reached more than 200 words. At the end of Shang dynasty, there were many bronzes with bronze inscriptions, but the descriptions were still very brief, which were mostly taboo for the casters or their ancestors. Until the demise of Shang Dynasty, there were only articles, but the longest article at that time was still only forty words.
Inscriptions on Bronzes in Western Zhou Dynasty
By the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the bronze inscriptions gradually flourished, and the matter of the son of heaven,