The Culture of Chinese bronze
Museums and galleries around the world, without exceptions, take the collection of china bronze sculpture as a significant vessel. China’s ancient bronze culture and
art, as in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties of bronze represented the type of rich, majestic style, text decoration of fine Korea, casting of the excellent, highly
creative, and unique in human Bronze Age. Its brilliant achievements in promoting the evolution of world civilization and progress, has epoch-making achievements and
contributions. The culture and art of antique Chinese bronze sculptureshould be represented by ones in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Museums and galleries around
the world, all collections of Chinese bronzes as a weighing machine, which takes collection of ancient bronze collectors treasure as a town house, from generation to
generation.
China achieved bronze artistic realm, called unprecedented, Jiamiao extreme, it is not only the treasures of our cultural treasures, but also a brilliant history of
world art pearl. When exactly the china bronze sculpture came into being has no accurate proof, but large amounts of data shows that the invention of crafts of
bronze sculptureoriginated 6600 years ago in Yangshao era and inherited and developed by the Longshan period. Yangshao and Longshan culture in ruins, have been found
texture impure brass and copper, from the history of China into the Chalcolithic era of civilization. However, the real China entered the Bronze Age, from about 2000
BC, the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou Dynasty and Spring and Autumn Period, about 15 centuries gone, to the late Warring States, a high level of bronze smelting iron
foundry industry since the rise of industrial completed its historic mission.
According to legend, Yu Kun Kim has been cast with the nine, animal husbandry, to symbolize the Kyushu Jiuding, each engraved with a tripod of the state name (Gun,
Hebei, Qinghai, Xu, pre, Jing, Yang, Yong Liang), a national treasure as the transmission device. Henan Province in 1974, the summer Yanshi Erlitou culture unearthed
bronze Jue, Although modeling and crafts all were characterized by considerable primitiveness, but the originality of bronze sculpture, but its emergence confirms the
possibility that Yu did produced nine dings. This jue has become the earliest sacrificial bronze until now in the history of China.
Bronzes have been found from various shapes and decorative point of view, since the beginning of summer, in the business, the Western Zhou Dynasty, Spring and Autumn
Warring States Period, Qin and Han dynasties until, in each period both an expression of their style, and features, have followed each other, evolution and
development, thus forming a unique Chinese bronze sculpture culture and art. While thebronze sculpture in Warring States period were rich in strong flavor of everyday
life and concentrated on practical but were ingenious, brilliant, luxurious yet graceful at the same time. China’s bronze art, history there have been two peaks, one
is the late Shang Dynasty, one of the Warring States period. The late Shang Dynasty bronze, its quality and quantity have been an unprecedented development and
improvement of well-made, decoration harassment, shape Strangeness, colorful patterns, reflecting the Shang people advocating the mysterious atmosphere of a ghost.
Warring States period of the bronze, the rich flavor of life, focusing on practical and ingenious, brilliant yet luxurious Daya. This time from the past and
imaginative ornamentation coarse flowers, into neat small flower, to the pattern of direction, no longer mysterious. In each period,chinese bronze sculptureall have
inheritance, evolution and development mutually, further forming the outstanding and distinctive bronze artworks. In the production process, most notably gold and
silver inlay, embedded copper, including gold and silver, gilt gold and fine carvings and other new technology invented and applied.