The place where the human face square tripod was unearthed, and when was the bronze square tripod wi

Huangcai Township, Ningxiang County, Hunan.

Ningxiang in Hunan is an ancient and magical land where bronzes from the Shang Dynasty are often unearthed. In 1959, a farmer in Huangcai Township, Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, went up the mountain to open up wasteland and farmed. After digging it out, he didn't know what this thing was that he had never seen before, and he didn't realize that it was a priceless national treasure.

In order to make it easier to carry, he swung his hoe and smashed it, smashing the human face into more than a dozen pieces. He packed the bronze fragments in baskets, brought them home, and then sold them as scrap copper to a local copper scrap buying shop.

Soon, the news of the discovery of the human face tripod in Ningxiang spread to the Hunan Provincial Museum, and the museum hurriedly sent people to learn that the fragments of the tripod had been packed with other scrap copper and transported to Changsha. The staff of the museum chased after them, and found that the fragment was likely to be in the warehouse of the Maojiaqiao Scrap Copper Acquisition Center of the Hunan Provincial Materials Bureau in Changsha City. After negotiations, the museum's staff entered the Maojiaqiao warehouse, which was filled with mountains of scrap copper, and some were unopened packages that had just been shipped from various places.

They were not afraid of difficulties and worked tirelessly, and finally found 10 pieces of human face in the mountain of scrap copper piles. After stitching, people found that Fang Ding was still missing the bottom and a foot, so they had to go back and look for scrap copper, and followed the purchase and transfer route of scrap copper, and finally found it in the Zhuzhou scrap copper warehouse not far from Changsha.

After careful restoration by experts, the fragments of the human face have become precious national treasures, recreating their former glory! Looking back today, people are still a little afraid that if the museum staff had been a step late, it would have been thrown into the furnace as scrap copper and turned into molten copper, a world-class treasure more than 3,000 years ago, which will be lost forever.

The human face Fang Ding was unearthed in the yellow wood of Ningxiang, Hunan.

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The more I saw Hunan TV on TV, the happier I became.

That thing is from Hunan.

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The bronze square tripod with a human face pattern is one of the masterpieces of Chinese bronzes, which appeared in the late Shang Dynasty (12th century BC).

This bronze square tripod is one of the representative works of Chinese bronzes and has important historical, cultural and artistic value. Its design and craftsmanship show that Shang Dynasty bronze production reached a fairly high level.

The main body of the bronze square tripod with human face pattern is a silver waiter square shell with a border around it, and the outer F side is decorated with uneven human face patterns and patterns of sky, earth, dragon, and bird. The inscriptions on the vessel are highly developed oracle bone characters of the Shang Dynasty, engraved with dozens of Chinese characters, and the content is mainly about sacrifices, temples, political rights and appointments.

This bronze tripod was an important political, religious and ceremonial vessel during the Shang Dynasty, and is regarded as representing the highest level of Chinese society and humanities and art at that time.

For Kaumakon archaeologists and historians, the bronze tripod with a human face pattern is a valuable historical document that records the political, economic, and cultural information of Shang Dynasty society. At the same time, it is also an important work of art, demonstrating the technical and artistic attainments of ancient Chinese bronze making.

It can be said that the bronze tripod with human face pattern is not only an important witness in the history of ancient Chinese culture, but also a valuable heritage in the history of human civilization.

This vessel is a square tripod with animal face pattern in the early Shang period, 100 cm high, and the length and width of the mouth are centimeters. In 1974, Zhangzhai South Street in Zhengzhou, Henan Province was unearthed. Straight mouth, folded edge, square lip, along the vertical two arched ears, grooved on the outside.

The bucket is square in the armpits, the feet are cylindrical, and the abdomen is decorated with animal face patterns and milk nail patterns. It is the largest of the early Shang bronzes ever discovered. It is now in the collection of the Chinese History Museum.

During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the beautifully shaped bronzes, especially the bronze ritual vessels, were highly prized by the rulers. They were heirlooms of aristocratic families and were only used for grand ceremonies or sacrifices. Many ceremonial vessels were cast with inscriptions (called gold inscriptions in calligraphy) that recorded the various privileges, sacrifices, military exploits, and orders or rewards of the slave owners and nobles for future generations to preserve forever.

The inscription of Mao Gongding in the Western Zhou Dynasty is the longest, with 497 characters, and the content is extensive, involving rituals, exegesis, orders, conquests and lawsuits, etc., with the nature of historical books. The number of tripods reflects the level of status, the weight of the tripod, the size of the power, and even the rise and fall of royal power.

Most of the bronzes are covered with animal face patterns, which are also called gluttonous patterns. The gluttonous pattern is an insatiable and mysterious monster imagined by people, with horns, claws, and tails, which are actually created based on common cows, tigers, and sheep. The gluttonous pattern is a pattern formed after it has been transformed.

It is also an imaginary animal, with sideways, horns, one foot, and a curled tail, mostly used for decorative bands. The animal face pattern is the humanization of beasts and gods by the ancients, trying to use the image of the beast to fabricate the gods, and the gods have effective charisma and can gather forces to help their tribe fight against natural disasters and other tribes. The combination of the human form and the animal face to form the pattern of the gods is the transition of human beings from a primitive state of ignorance to civilization.

The human face square tripod (height cm, mouth length cm, width cm, unearthed in 1959 in Ningxiang County, Hunan Province, Huangcai Zhaizi Mountain, Hunan Provincial Museum collection) business vessel body is rectangular, vertical ears, four-columnar feet, for the late Shang Dynasty tripod common style. The four sides of the belly are decorated with a relief human face as the main body, and the face is more realistic, with prominent features and is very eye-catching.

At that time, Huang, a local farmer who excavated it, was ready to sell it as scrap copper for money, but because the huge shape of the vessel was not conducive to handling, he smashed it into several pieces and carried it to the scrap purchase station. After Huang dug up the human face Fang Ding and was learned by an old expert from the Hunan Provincial Museum, he came to Huang's house to visit, but at that time, the human face pattern Fang Ding had been transported away with other scrap copper at the purchase station and was ready to be sent back to the smelter. The old expert and Huang rushed to Changsha, intercepted the truck that was about to be transported to the smelter at the door of the warehouse in the center of Maojiaqiao, and finally found the fragments of the tripod in the scrap copper and iron pile, but the legs and bottom of the tripod were not found, and the staff followed the transfer route of the scrap copper and found the leg and the bottom fragment in the Zhuzhou scrap copper warehouse, and the leg was also found two years later.

It was later restored by the Hunan Provincial Museum.