Research On The Pottery Ritual Vessels Imitating Bronzes Buried In The Tombs Of Yan State In The Warring States Period

This article summarizes the temporal and spatial characteristics of the placement and combination of the imitation bronze pottery ritual vessels in the tombs of Yan in the Warring States Period,and analyzes the funerary inclinations reflected by the production and changes of the imitation bronze pottery ritual vessels.It also analyzes the production and distribution of imitation bronze pottery rituals seen in the pottery-making workshops.The article mainly includes the following contents:Chapter 1Defines the temporal and spatial scope of this research and briefly introduces the history of the research on the imitation bronze pottery rituals in the Yan Tomb of the Warring States Period.Chapter 2Reviews the staging of the Yan tomb imitation bronze pottery rituals made by various authors and makes adjustments based on the staging of Pei Xuanjun.Chapter 3Summarizes the combination of imitation bronze pottery rituals in the Yan Tomb in the Warring States Period and analyzes in detail the types of retro imitation bronze pottery rituals in imitation bronze pottery rituals and summarizes the combination of retro pottery rituals.Chapter 4Examines the operation mode of pottery-making workshops from both the pottery workshops and the imitation bronze pottery rituals.It concludes that from the late Warring States period to the early Han Dynasty,the kiln site mainly fired pottery for daily use,while sometimes fired imitation bronze pottery rituals as well.The pottery workshop had roughly two modes of production of imitation bronze pottery rituals,namely custom-made and mass production.It is also found that the pottery workshops were territorial,that is,the imitation bronze pottery rituals from the Yan Tomb in the Warring States Period were produced locally.Chapter 5Analyzes the changes in funerary concepts reflected by the emergence and changes of imitation bronze pottery rituals.For the senior nobles,the retro imitation bronze pottery rituals could accentuate their dignified hierarchical status and emphasize the hierarchical system,while reflected in the funerary concepts,is to pay more attention to themselves and their present lives.For the newly promoted small and medium nobles,their increased wealth and status led to new demands in their funerary concepts,that is,to upgrade the burial specifications of their own tombs,and the imitation bronze pottery rituals for burials could precisely meet their requirements.Chapter 6Summarizes the full research and puts forward the existing problems.