General culture of the china bronze sculpture

General culture of the china bronze sculpture is divided into three stages of development, namely, formation, and changes in peak period.

First, the formation

4500 ~ 4000 years ago Longshan era, equivalent to Yaoshun legendary era. Offer classical discipline when people have begun to set smelting bronze sculpture. Yellow River, Yangtze River region Longshan era ruins, the archaeological excavations in the ruins of dozens of products found a bronze sculpture.

Second, the peak period

Chinese bronze sculpture heyday of the era, including the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn and early Warring States period, duration, some 1,600 years. The chinese bronze sculpture of this period is divided into ritual musical instruments, weapons and miscellaneous devices. Instruments are mainly used in ancestral worship activities.

Third, the transition period

Transition period generally refers to the late Warring States to Qin and Han Dynasty of this period. The traditional ritual system has been the complete collapse of the iron products have been widely used. To the Eastern Han Dynasty, pottery has been considerable developments in the daily life bronze sculpture from the dish further squeezed out. As for weapons, tools, etc., when the iron has already accounted for a dominant position. Sui and Tang Dynasties are the main types of fine bronzes and bronze mirrors, generally have a variety of inscriptions. Since then, china bronze sculpture in addition to bronze mirrors, but can not say what developed.