A Brief History of bronze sculpture
In 1975, Gansu Dongxiang Village Ma Lin cultural sites found in pits full of a china bronze knife. Blade length 12.5 cm, the material is copper- tin alloy bronze, cast system using combined model law, dating around 3100 BC or so, which is now found in the earliest bronze. Although some of the copper occurs during this period, but the more common use of stone, bronze smelting and casting has not yet scale, are Chalcolithic period, bronze civilization is still in the bud.
From ancient times until 2100 BC, the establishment of the Central Plains region of the Xia Dynasty, during this time, from the Yellow River, Huaihe River, the Yangtze River region, the distribution of a large number of Yetong remains and relics, found on the local, the main. The reproduction of the bronze sculpture continues to be used until now. There are copper, bronze, brass, three, and the majority of natural copper, class a knife, and some of the copper cone and other tools. One knife of a class of objects, either as a tool, can also be used as , so to the number of tubes chapter, said Chi manufacture of copper , it is entirely possible. As the Yellow Emperor bronze tripod, according to archaeological discoveries of view, was already a large number of pottery Gui, ceramic pots, a tripod should be able to cast a kind of chinese bronze.
The real advent of the Bronze Age, the Xia Dynasty in the Central Plains region is established. Before statehood, Yu cast Jiuding, the use of magic, the power of religion to become a state, a symbol of royal power. Since the device uses Yu created after the casting, bronze casting of religion, political has become a tradition, as a ritual, ceremonial vessels and have been large-scale cast out, and the ruling royal order to maintain services. Taotie portrayed on ancient bronze sculpture is a greedy and man-eating monster. To the Shang Dynasty, bronze ritual vessels of the type of significant increase in wine portfolio to the main ritual, decoration tends to harassment, full of mystery and the grotesque style of the Animal Mask layout of the prevalence of serious moment, from the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty bronze-age civilization’s heyday.
After the mid-Western Zhou Dynasty, bronze began to be some changes, turned to focus on tableware wine portfolio combination of bronze and easy shape and decoration tended to simplify, inscriptions increased. The bronze sculpture in the slavery society of Shang out of question symbolizes the bloody and savage nature. Mid-spring, due to the further decline of the Zhou royal family, princes have been around since the casting of bronze ritual objects to display power, more ethereal bronze style, realism, animal decoration, sculpture increase, mysterious Animal Mask rarely seen, full of life atmosphere, contemporary scene in bronze, and God began to give people.
Ritual in the late Warring States is also a sacred ritual as being cold and gradually disappeared, the princes are busy fighting for power wins, the bronze more for arms manufacture and utensils of daily life, such as copper lamp, bronze mirrors. What’s more, the bronze sculpture has lost the distinctive yellow color in those days. Warring States Period, the copper material as a tool, gradually fade out of sight, it is because of this great time to dig another tool Iron was born. With the emergence of iron, bronze civilization began to move toward a decline, the only remaining bronze mirrors and coins are still a long lonely years ahead. The newly excavated china bronze sculpture is coated with dark green rust all over. Times past, it is only through the mirror and fell back a little, or only turn it into a personal money in his waist where it is felt occasionally in the course of history tinkling sound.
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