The ancient china bronze sculpture contains profound ideas

Lower Xiajiadian culture: more than 10 locations found in more than 100 pieces of bronze, in which the cemetery unearthed, to 57, according to detection are bronze. The bronze sculpture are smart and artful in shapes. These include bronze ornaments, weapons, tools, ceremonial, etc., such as ring, cone, run, upsetting, stick first and so on. Other sites or bronze cemetery unearthed more sporadic, but there are many shapes of the complex shapes, such as earthenware vessel, tripod, and even handle Ge, etc., times more for the Shang Dynasty. Can be seen, the late Lower Xiajiadian culture, the use of bronze has become more common, but also significantly improved production technology, has entered the Bronze Age.

According to the data and cultural characteristics of a large number of 14C, the lower Xiajiadian general culture of the times can be defined as before 1400 BC 2000 to 38, the age of Dadianzi Lower Xiajiadian culture and late. The bronze statue are exquisite in workmanship and gorgeous and luxurious or plain and simple in style. Can be seen, the lower Xiajiadian Bronze Age culture into the time roughly in the late Xia Dynasty Shang Dynasty. Zhu ditching Culture: Zhu trenching sites excavated by 1974,1977,1980,1983,1984 several years, more than 50 pieces of bronze were unearthed. Age of the site for the 4200 ~ 3500 years ago, can be divided into five. In summary, the northern region is the time to enter the Bronze Age to the late Xia Dynasty Shang Dynasty. Because too few bronzes, and is not yet able to Xinzhai ownership Taosi two Bronze Age remains.

The third period began cone, needle and other small pieces of bronze, bronze and the third phase similar to the fourth, fifth appeared arrowheads, Ge, swords, knives, iron pot and other bronze weapons and containers. About the times when the third phase of the mid-summer, the fourth to the late Xia Dynasty, the fifth to the early Shang Dynasty. Zhu ditching the third phase of culture began to appear a few small pieces of bronze, bronze fifth compared with the number and types III and IV have significantly increased in the container marks the emergence of casting technology has made progress. Meanwhile, the ancient china bronze sculpture also contains profound ideas.

Therefore, Zhu ditching the third culture, four have not yet entered the Bronze Age, beginning from the fifth into the Bronze Age, the era of the early Shang Dynasty.
Early Bronze Haidai region Yueshi only in the city of Surabaya, Yin, Muping Zhao Zhuang grid sporadic found several sites, which identified the city's nine Yin in bronze six bronze, copper 3. Bronze type mainly arrowheads, knives, cones, rings and other small tools, and decorations. Yueshi era equivalent of Erlitou two to early in the business. Visible, Haidai region is also found in very small number of early bronze, and classes are mostly small pieces of tools and accessories, does not have a "significant importance." Therefore, there can not be considered Yueshi has entered the Bronze Age. Some bronze sculpture like the boshan censer, plumed portrait, money tree, bronze medal for the coffin, etc. are both superb in craft and sophisticated in form.

More information on the Central Plains early bronzes, but the bronze materials are mainly found in Henan Longshan culture, the new Village period remains (or the new Village culture) and Erlitou. Henan Longshan culture: only post in King City Longshan culture four fragments found in a bronze vessel, the time around 1900 BC or slightly earlier. Xinzhai period remains may be unearthed fragments of the container flow, each a knife and copper slag, copper studies have pointed out that the article for the bronze, and thus that the new Village has entered the Bronze Age period remains. The foundry industry of bronze sculpture in the Han Dynasty differed in nature form the chinese bronze sculpture in the peak of Shang and Zhou of the Bronze Age. Taosi relics unearthed several pieces of early bronze also, but mainly copper, bronze, very few.