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With Bronze as a material, the Bronze-ware was made by a very special technique. It is one of the loading-bodys of the spectacular ancient civilization. The Bronze Age was first named by G. J. Tomson who is a Denmark archeologist as a special period in the history of human material development. All the ancient civilization in the world experienced Stone Age, Bronze-Stone coexisting Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. The ancient of China created specific and advanced Bronze culture during the Bronze Age about 4000 years to 2200 years ago. A large number of beautiful Bronze-ware excavated or existing now show that the bronze founding technique has been developed to it's highest peak in ancient China. The Bronze ware played very important role in people's life and spirit system long ago.

The ancient Bronze-wares of china have not only of great art & appreciation value, but also have very high value for scientific research.

Chinese Bronze-ware has spectacular outlook and rich decoration. Some of the main designs are as follow: The first is the design of animal faces, which are the images of head of all kinds of animals or something imaginative. The specific feature of that is to use nose as the middle line, arrange the two sides equally, with horn, eyebrow, eyes (some have ears on the two sides of eyes), nose, mouth and tooth from top to the bottom, enlarged body and animal tail in the two sides, some of it have feet on the bottom. It reflected people's adoration of natural power at that time. The second is the Feng-bird design, which is an imaginative magic bird, with beautiful decoration on its head, special decorated mouth, body and tail. The Feng-bird is the god of wind and angel of heaven. The third is Chinese dragon design. Dragon is the God of water in Chinese legend, which was treated as a mysterious creature which was adored as a natural power. Animals with "Z" size body are assorted as dragon design.

The other character of Bonze-ware is inscription, which is different from that of other countries, The value of Bronze-ware express most in its inscription. Because of the vicissitude of history, just a little literature kept till now, there are only Shang shu, Shi jing and Spring and autumn. Because many information are not as same as the original though long times, we can't see the history correctly. But the inscription can do it, especially the long inscription, it can reflect the real life in that time. Being the inscription without changed by the people, it have very high value of research.

Bronze-ware always was considered as a treasure and a symbol of auspice in ancient. The collecting history of that have lasting for 2000' years since Hanwu king looking it as something deiform. Since Beisong dynasty, it's popular for many elegant people to research, collect and enjoy Bronze-ware, then a new study called Jin Shi Xue was formed. The research of Bronze-ware in china are always emphasizing particularly in archeology, history, paleography, while the western and Japan paying attention to the design and aesthetics. Many expert and literature reach the high level of it.

Baoji city of Shaanxi province was named "the hometown of the Bronze ware", Zhouyuan in Baoji city was the birthplace and capital site of ancient Zhou dynasty, from Xuan king of Xihan dynasty, a lot of Bronze-wares were discovered there, the quantity, grade, inscription of which is most important in China. The most famous Bronze-wares discovered there conclude Keding, Hezun, Zhegong, Fuxinjue, Yafujue, Bogeyou etc.

The skill of Bronze-ware replica originated from Song period, expanded in Yuan period, perfected in Ming and Qing period. The Bronze-ware have high value of appreciating and collecting, the replica of it can also be used for that.

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