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· Bronze Art
As one great invention in mankind's history, the bronze is an alloy of red copper, tin and lead, it is characterized by low melting point, high hardness, bright color & lustre, and so on, which pretty suitable for the casting of various sculptures, implements and some others.
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·Ke Ding
Ke Ding, a bronze vessel of late Western Zhou Dynasty of China, was excavated in Guang Xu period, Qing Dynasty, with a big tripod, seven small tripods, Xu ( a elliptic vessel for holding cooked millet and rice in ancient times), six bells, and a Fu ( a striking musical instrument). People often call big tripod as Da Ke DIng, small tripod as small Ke Ding. The big one is huge, with animal-mask decorated around the mouth and smooth wave patterns around the abdomen.
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·Bell Set
Bell set is a instrument for striking in our antient times, it is cast by bronze and composed of oblate bells of different size which are arrayed conform to the tone order from high to low. Then bells are hung on a huge bell shelf, when the copper bell are respectively stricken by a wooden mallet and microscler stick, it can produce varied tones, which is on account of the fact that each bell shares different tone, if stricken accoding to the clef, the dulcet music will be clearly heared.
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·Wine & Food Vessels
At the beginning of Shang and Western Zhou Dynasty, dringking vessels take up the
highest proportion in all bronze vessels, Some of which represent the highest level of art
in that period, the main models are listed as follows: Hu, Jue, Zhi, Jiao (all for dringking).
There is a variety of food vessels, such as Gui, shaped like a big bowl, Dou, should have
been used for holding millets, gradually for holding meat paste and meat sauce.
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