China’s First Legal Verdict On bronze sculpture
Cast in the late Western Zhou bronze sprinklers – it’s covered with inscriptions abdominal cast of 157 words, China’s first recorded legal judgments. As Bagley pointed out, “ancient Chinese bronze sculpture have an exotic and mysterious character, at least in the eyes of modern observers.” Inscriptions called cattle (cattle slaves manage a small head) who, contrary to previous vows, sued his boss, the judge. Bo Yang parent to determine the false, the result of decisions under one thousand lashes, a fine ink tattooed face punishment, commutation of sentence after a wide-woo, whipped five hundred, three hundred copper penalty, and vowed to re-plead guilty to cattle closed.
Western Zhou Dynasty inscription is a true record of proceedings, called a vivid, concrete image of the Western Zhou bronze Code. The most stunning element is the pair of animal eyes projecting from the surface of the china bronze sculpture and staring at the viewer with a bewitching force. But through the inscriptions, the Western Zhou Dynasty to lower a civil lawsuit against the higher order moving criminal cases, is inappropriate in today’s perspective. In the case of first instance trial concluded with a practice, no appeal is permitted, which makes cattle desperate, unable to appeal, with trumped-up lead. Also as a sentence according to the vows, and will determine whether the termination of litigation, which also reflects the Western Zhou Dynasty legal inequities.
Wei He is a wine, cast in the cap 132 words inscriptions, recorded in March of Prince Gong Zhou, Bo moments too often to participate in the ceremony were Wang, and Qiu Wei (minor official in charge of the production of fur ) Yu Chang with the Hajj (a kind of jade), red amber (red for tiger) and other materials exchanged 13 fields of land (about 1,300 acres now), Rong Bo, Bo, etc. The animal depicted on the bronze sculpture usually is ferocious and mystical. Given the ruling minister presided over both land command Si transactions, objects of this inscription is the earliest Chinese found the lease.
Yu Zhang inscriptions clearly documented the value of a shell eighty friends, two red amber, two deer and a Ben Fu (ritual with the shawls, aprons and cover the knee) the value of shell twenty friends. The shape and the details of the china bronze statue are changing. The beta value of the currency as a measure of physical scale, which Zhou bronze inscriptions, but are also the first time discovered. Qiu Wei also like this in charge of the production of fur officials use their control of small handicraft products in exchange for their land, which indicates that identity is not high, Shu increase the economic status of the family name.
Wei Ding, casting a 207 word wall inscriptions, recorded five weeks of the first month of Prince Gong, Jun Qiu Li Wei and state land transactions, under the auspices of the relevant minister, the two sides vowed, to locate the land borders, for delivery procedures, indicating the time the Western Zhou Dynasty land system changed. Such a compelling dominance of the eyes in the design emphasizes their significance on the ritual bronze sculpture. Land system is based on the early Western Zhou Dynasty, led the Zhou land ownership slave-owning aristocracy.
The land to the Zhou feudal princes and subjects as the princes in the country and in accordance with patriarchal and feudal fief to the Bureaucrats, by the slaves free farming, in addition to labor and tribute, the longer collect rent, land is not traded early Western Zhou Dynasty of. He loves the chinese bronze sculpture so much that he can not fall asleep without it. To the mid-Western Zhou Dynasty, between slave-owning aristocracy private, easy to farm rents Tian things continue to occur, a new economic form – rent began to appear, indicating the form of the Western Zhou system of land the king has been loosened, the new feudal relations of production have emerged.
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