Bronze weapons are in a hurry!!

The story of the cadre Mo Xie.

A hint of a bronze inscription on the story of bribery.

The story of the Western Zhou people giving gifts for the lawsuit.

Due to the development of private land and the adoption of slaves, the Western Zhou nobleman Zhou Sheng exceeded the regulations of the imperial court at that time, (as for what kind of regulations and how much is unknown), he was reported. When the imperial court sent Zhao Bohu to supervise this matter, Zhou Sheng gave Zhao Bohu's mother a gift - weaving five fathoms and two bronze pots. Zhao Bohu's wife then relayed the matter to her husband and asked him to deal with the matter as appropriate.

At the same time, Zhou Sheng also sent a piece of jade to Zhao Bohu's father. Later, in Zhou Sheng's opinion, the matter was satisfactorily resolved, and he sent Zhao Bohu a piece of jade gui to express his gratitude.

The story of Mao Gongding.

Mao Gongding is a temple ritual vessel in China more than 2,800 years ago. Its inner wall is cast with a long inscription of 500 characters, which is the longest inscription among the more than 7,000 bronzes with inscriptions in the existing Shang and Zhou dynasties. The content of the inscription can be divided into seven paragraphs, to the effect that:

At the beginning of King Xuan of Zhou's accession to the throne, he was eager to revitalize the government, so he asked his uncle Mao Gong to govern the affairs of the country and the country, and to be diligent and selfless, and to make the Mao Gong clan serve as a janissary to protect the royal family. It is speculated from the content that Mao Gongding should be cast in the first year of King Xuan of Zhou (827 BC), and its inscription can surpass a real historical material of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Shangshu, which is the most precious document for the study of the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty, so Mao Gongding can be called a treasure of the world.

Mao Gongding was unearthed in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province around the 28th year of Ye Daoguang at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1814). After Mao Gongding was unearthed, after many changes of hands, during the Anti-Japanese War, the danger was captured by the Japanese military, the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the folk dedication to the public, is now collected by the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. There are Yangwen grid lines in the inscriptions, which is a habit of making inscriptions in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, so in addition to the value of historical materials, Mao Gongding also has a pivotal position in Chinese paleography and calligraphy art.

1. Beast-faced Wending bai

Dynasty (Western Zhou), du

The animal face of the artifact is (gluttony.

zhi 餮pattern), the use is (dao held a grand ceremony or sacrifice for exclusive use. genus).

2. The dynasty (Western Zhou) and the use (sacrifice) of Bangui

3. The "bean" of the triangular cloud thunder (high-footed bean)."What does it mean (the one with tall feet under the plate is called a bean, and the bean is a generic name for this kind of item, and it also refers specifically to the wooden bean, the ceramic bean is called Deng, and the bamboo bean is made of a flute, which is a vessel for food.) ), use (sacrifices, sacrifices to the gods are used to hold food).

4. The dynasty (Western Zhou Dynasty) of the cockroach (Tattooed Beast Ear Book), the cockroach is (the snake-like monster of the dragon genus, which is an early dragon without horns), and his use (decoration).