Guanzhong Area Unearthed Shang And Zhou Bronze Wine Container Shape And Ornamentation

The bronze wine container Shang and Zhou dynasties Sheng wine, one of whichoccupies a very important position in the entire bronze ritual. It first appeared in the earlyShang Dynasty, popular in the late Shang and early Western Zhou Dynasty, disappearing afterthe mid-Western Zhou. Bronze wine container main function of ritual dress black milletflavored liqueur mainly popular in the Shang Dynasty, Zhengzhou, Anyang and surroundingareas, to enter the Western Zhou Dynasty to the ones found in Xi’an and Baoji. Bronze winecontainer copper pot with Ti Liang homologous, initially both similar lot, the case is not easy.Until bronze wine container development to the business end of the week, the styling wascompletely set.The early bronze wine container no fixed standard shape, fully formed until the lateShang Dynasty own unique artistic style, into the development of peak stage. Due to thebusinessman deity heavy ghost concepts as well as the heavy wine ethos bronze winecontainer become the large sacrificial rituals indispensable ritual. This period the winecontainer multi-decorated Animal Mask, dragon decoration and Yunlei Wen, harassment andbrilliant style, mysterious and strange carving techniques are crisp and decisive. Thisdecorative means to take into account a deterrent to people, consolidating the rule of politicalpurposes. Enter the Western Zhou Dynasty bronze wine container’s shape changes the artifactsthe focus of late in some depressed, wall decor more common Bird chord pattern, and highlydecorative patterns. This period ornamentation carving techniques also abandoned the big upsand downs of the Shang Dynasty layered style, replaced by a better three-dimensional visualeffects prominent plane in order to a sleek and Xirun bas-relief techniques. This style is clearlyless Shang the condensate Li beauty, it is in line of the Western Zhou the materialized ChongleSean cultural trends. Due to political and cultural reasons, the proportion of the Western ZhouDynasty bronze food gradually over a wine vessel, especially after the mid-Western Zhouwine container number drastically reduced and eventually disappear.