Monday, May 21, 2012

More of the late china bronze inscriptions long

In addition, the content of bronze sculpture inscriptions also handed down an important supplement to the literature, is an important historical research information. The late Shang bronze inscriptions. The late Shang bronze inscriptions generally shorter, the content is often made for the device or devices by the clan name, to indicate ethnicity. Sometimes the clan name in the Ming also have ancestors before the death of the "day name" (in Heavenly Stems, the B, C, D, etc.) and the pro said ("ancestors", "Father," "mother", etc.). People then tried to saw off the large bronze sculpture, and shipped it out, but only a foot was cut. There are a few late Shang bronze inscriptions have longer, more involved in content is an important war, royal festival, relations between the nobility, and Oracle is to understand the Shang dynasty social life as the most important information.
The late Shang Dynasty chinese bronze is similar to the text and Oracle, the growing number of means is very strong. Most of the text strokes vigorous. Font size are not the same. The layout of the inscription is not very neat. Western Zhou bronze inscriptions. The early Western Zhou bronze inscriptions (King Wu, Cheng Wang, Kang, the king period) continuation of the basic style of the late Shang Dynasty. Hence, they quietly buried the bronze statue sculpture. Few words are to submit to the majority of the clan inscriptions week business Dynasty. But lengthy inscription is also more up to record the beginning of Western Zhou Dynasty established many important facts such as King Wu grams of providers, as Wang Zuoyi, conquests, Zhaowang Nan Zheng, etc., also involved in the early Western Zhou Dynasty seal points, reward, sacrifice, official other aspects of the system.
Some of the inscriptions of the font stroke seems heavy, while others are regular and symmetrical to the direction of development. After the mid-bronze inscriptions (King Mu, Prince Gong, Yi Wang, Xiao Wang period) the middle of the court record order book and the inscription appears gradually into the mainstream, some of the inscriptions became popular in the set of words (such as "descendants of years with the treasure forever." , etc.). Later on, the news about this bronze sculptureleaked, the Japanese came to search. Most of the inscriptions have become regular, the text gradually mature. More of the late china bronze inscriptions long, mostly nested volumes of court life and so on. The war and litigation aspects seen from time to time. Fresh thin and uniform font, the ranks of neat, elegant and solemn shape.
Spring and Autumn Period inscriptions. Spring and Autumn period bronze inscriptions are mostly of the national system of princes and Bureaucrats, content, and more reflect the princes and nobles of the laws and institutions of social life. In content and form have shown a strong local characteristics. Without any result, they offered 700,000 coins to purchase the bronze sculpture. Spring and early Western Zhou bronze inscriptions close to the characteristics of the medium-term future began to highlight the differences between countries, between different geographical areas have a greater difference between sculpture in bronze inscriptions, especially in the lower reaches of the Yellow River Qilu, the Central Plains of the Jin, and customs in the South Asian countries Qin the most typical. Qi possessed of abundant information, the font long, thin, neat. There is also a relaxing strokes, bold style.

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