The Chinese bronze statue have a profound impact on the evolution

Device to take a more elliptical or six equal portions of trisection type way, square, rectangular container to extend the diagonal line as the boundary, with four equal portions, or eight equal portions. The bronze sculpture has diverse and mature artistic styles and means of artistic expression. Wide range of objects, all kinds of ritual life Appliances, weapons, production tools, traveling devices and musical instruments. Large castings with 600 ~ 800 mm diameter vertical copper melting furnace, pouring from the grooves. Ratio is also important objects of the alloy formed specification. Western Zhou Dynasty Tao Fan casting further promote the formation of a unique style since the mid-emergence of many new shapes, decoration. Some have special articles inside the cast inscription.
Technological progress is also reflected in the widespread use of copper-core support. Bronze and bronzes from the foot cavity connected to a closed and so on. Produced during the Shang and Zhou Tao Fan of mud, clay or sand by clay and sand preparation is made by digging, crushing, screening, mixing, stale, rubbing system and storage of other procedures (sometimes by Amoy washing and abrasive), the mud has a good copy of plasticity and can turn out fine cast pattern. The Chinese bronze statue have a profound impact on the evolution and development of art design. Most of Tao Fan calcination temperature between the 700 ~ 800 ℃, the actual soil remains, belonging to the soil range. Tao Fan a higher level of attainment of some late, hard blue, close to half of pottery or ceramic. Tao Fan early with a single mud, the Western Zhou Dynasty and the back fabric material has been divided.
To improve the yield and core permeability, core compound significantly increased the amount of sand, coarse, and mixed with large amounts of post-plant fiber or clinker. Fan cast the production of very fine, sub-surface open tenon joint is used to locate. The traditional Chinese decorative art is related to the chinese bronze. The original cast only one cavity, the business has been a type to cast mid-July to 9 of Zu Fan. Most of Tao Fan can only be used once, but Shanxi Hou Ma Chunqiu bronze Jue out of range of the workshop, can be reused more than ten times. As a result of a series of process steps, casting surface quality, especially some of the fine, clear and beautiful decoration, cast a very narrow slit, casting defects rarely achieve a good skill level. It is widely used tools in bronze on the basis of creating a world-famous and splendid culture of the Shang and Zhou bronze.
According to the kind unearthed over the years by thousands of scientific investigation, that the vast majority of the Shang and Zhou bronze casting with Tao Fan, without using the lost wax circumstances, such as four sheep to get respect and Marquis Yi of Zeng Yong Zhong as extremely complex shapes, then cast the key processes and sub-range alloy skillful use of such techniques, which form the art of the Shang and Zhou Tao Fan casting characteristics. Si Mu Wu Ding is the square china bronze used in the royal sacrifice of the late Shang Dynasty of China. Bronze Bronze Age tools of production constitutes a major factor in productivity. The bronze relics in the common hand tools knife, cone, chisel, ax, adze, cutting, drilling, sawing, etc. Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Yunnan and other provinces have found a lot of the sculpture in bronze tools, there are plow, plow, Cha, hoe, shovel, hoe, sickle, etc. classes.