One of the earliest of china bronze sculpture

Spring and Autumn Period bronze tripod, a greater emphasis on practicality, is a Zhongming Ding effective combination of food. During this period bronze tripod has been completely lost the characteristics of worship and ritual, but to be practical in daily life bronze direction. The types of the bronze sculpture vary, like the instruments for sacrifice, banquets, ceremony and ones used in the army. For example in 1966, unearthed in Shaanxi Xianyang wrong Jinyin Yun Wen Ding, Ding takes the shape of the ball flat, affixed, covered with three ring New York, rival powers slender, was animal hoof-like, the body decorated with gold and silver inlay process over the body, The tripod into revealing exquisite ornate, its noble breath of life is very strong.
Ding-type by a huge amount to the compact body, from the solemn to the flashy luxury, this historical development and change, it is the bronze itself by the function to pay homage to the gods and the evolution of the pursuit of practical function. Evolution of food-type device: Shang and Zhou dynasties unearthed bronze tableware, the Gui is most common. Gui produced in the late Shang Dynasty, Hubei Provincial Museum in the collection of a Shang Dynasty bronze taotie Gui richer features of the times. Gui with the ears, exposure, fold along the spin along the mouth of two instances under the decorative pattern, plus a ring foot under the body. Náo  is also one kind of chinese bronze sculpture. Gui is used for loading grain foods, form and function with the bowl in use today is similar.
 Zhou added tableware beans, basket used in state worship and other varieties, but in the decorative style-type biggest change is in bronze Gui. Gui Zhou Dynasty bronze shape of the ears varied, there Kuilong-shaped ears, phoenix-shaped ears and other animal ear shape, exaggerated, complex structure. Náo (鐃), one kind of cymbal, is one of the earliest of china bronze sculpture. Some bronze gui was added under the lop ears. Ring foot well and under the seat is often added, from the body to the side seat, complete change in the rotation pattern Shang simple decoration, but to Bird, Kui dragon, the beast is done and the first decorative pattern, the whole works gorgeous abnormal .
The evolution of wine-type: business of wine, drinking the wind in the Shang Dynasty slave class is extremely popular, it is more after all the times, the shape of the Shang dynasty wine most abundant species is very numerous functions is very clear, of course, there a multi-purpose device, such as MG, is both the wine and can be used to warm the drink. This sort of sculpture in bronze spreads widely in the late Shang Dynasty and adopted by the early Zhou. If the wine according to different functions, but also can be divided into Sheng wine, cooking wine, alcohol, etc., Jazz on the title, jade cup with ears, Gong, chips, corner, respect, goblet, pots and so on.
Wine-type in early and late Shang Dynasty, great changes have taken place, to the beginning of the week, there are inheritance, but Zhou alcohol, except for a few such as pot-type, and other late-type gradually disappeared in the week. It is similar to a bronze sculpture in appearance but much bigger. Among the Shang dynasty wine vessel, the drinking device "jade cup with ears" and "goblet" of-type diversity, and most beautiful. Jade cup with ears to warm wine, and Jazz styling similar, but different is the jade cup with ears and the Jazz have double column, but no flow, no tail, not for drinking. Anyang Yin Ruins tomb of Fu Hao's jade cup with ears have enough bags bronze in the taotie jade cup with ears, women good side jade cup with ears so many different styles.