Yin Ruins excavated a large number of dancer sculpture

Chinese bronze culture has a long history, with strong ethnic characteristics and style. Yin Ruins excavated a large number of dancer sculpture, including ritual, musical instruments, weapons, tools, appliances, accessories, art, etc., formed mainly bronze ritual vessels and weapons of bronze civilization, reached the pinnacle of the development of Chinese Bronze Age in China occupies an important position in the history of ancient civilizations. Yin Ruins of large numbers of bronze ritual to prove that Chinese bronze culture has developed to the highest stage. Ritual bronze art tripod, Gui, Gu, MG, jade cup with ears, weapons Ge, spear, ax, knives, arrowheads, tools, adze, chisel, axes, saws, shovels, musical instruments, cymbals, bells, Zheng Yin ruins as the representatives of bronze, shape variety, decoration harassment mysterious. Layers of abstract lines to change the image of the animal, with very fine geometric patterns and shades of convex and concave relief, constitute the kinds of design, layout, strict, solemn dignified. The exaggerated and mysterious style, contains a deep rough and artistic charm of the original tension, reflecting the religious sentiments of the Shang ancestors and unique aesthetic. Yin Ruins in angel statues smelting brilliant achievements in the world to become one of the centers of ancient bronze civilization.

Si Mu Wu Ding ------- large bronze of the world's most

Tomb unearthed in Yin Ruins area large Si Mu Wu Ding in the world's most prestigious bronze ritual vessels, up to 133 cm, length 79.2 cm mouth, weighing 875 kilograms, is by far the world's largest bronze figurines tripod found. Original Collection of Chinese History Museum. For tourists visiting the ruins of Yin Bo Wuyuan, will enlarge the open display of its generic square in front of the hall. The tripod shape of a large powerful, beautiful and delicate ornamentation, is a treasure of Chinese bronze culture, the bright pearl of art history, as the "highest in the world." The casting method advanced the science bronze formula, so that today's metallurgy expert whom impressed! This re-casting device, requires a high degree of skill and experience of organized labor. Many scholars have pointed out, this huge bronze Shang Fang Ding slavery developed reflects a high degree of creativity and people.

Tang dynasty, political, economic and military aspects are unmatched, but the community also an extravagant style of popular, especially the upper class is extremely Shemi. Others do not say, rich people of the basic necessities of daily utensils are very particular about my possession of a set meal of the Tang Dynasty bronze chopsticks spoon, that is an example.

This set of chopsticks spoon whole body was black ancient pack slurry, a little green patina, revealing the individual parts of the faint golden copper. One pair of chopsticks chopsticks length 245mm, cylindrical chopsticks foot end diameter of 3mm, graded coarse to the central square chopsticks, chopsticks first cross-section was 35mm, the thinnest Department only 1mm thick, convex handle bar on the flute, the degree of bending spoons, soft shape .

Bronze chopsticks spoon of course not the most expensive, rich people with the Tang Dynasty silver chopsticks spoon from time to time discovered, but their shapes are the same, use the same. Than poor people can only use bamboo chopsticks and chopsticks and ceramic spoon wooden spoon, the spoon has been able to count chopsticks bronze utensils of the senior.

Chopsticks called as "chopsticks" and also "rely on to mention", "Zhu" and other names, is the original Chinese dishes, it is so simple that only two sticks, but with a clip, poke, pinch, pick, picking, holding, stripping, sorting , cut, bend and many other functions, can be said that in addition to the soup spoon spoon features, chopsticks and chopsticks on the table almost anything. Figure in antique bronze chopsticks production rules, a square is square, circle is round. Early chopsticks chopsticks whole body cylindrical, and visible from the Tang Dynasty bronze chopsticks chopsticks chopsticks have been improved into a square top, so your fingers can hold chopsticks more firmly, more convenient, will not roll on the table. This basic shape of the shape of Chinese chopsticks, until today.

Key, from the dagger from. Initially the ancients to eat cooked meat cut with a knife poked in the pot, and later may find indecent, then evolved into a key, so the first key is the early tip-like, retained the dagger to poke the meat fork function. Spoonful of soup in the Tang and Song is not, but for Yang soup, tea with Young, that is stirring soup with a spoon tea. Seen from the figure bronze spoon, spoon the Tang Dynasty's long, thin handle, spoon scoop Ministry of elongated, flat, slightly pockets and can not soup. But the real soup tableware is glandulifera deep scoop of the spoon. The spoon and spoon with each other, and gradually evolved into today's tune more. Figure in the key of this long-handled shallow scoop is then used by dignitaries or the literati, the tea or the soup gently stir with a spoon it over and then slowly taste, reflects the elite's noble and elegant.