Inscriptions of bronze sculpture in Late Western Zhou Dynasty

The early Western Zhou bronze inscriptions of bronze (Wu Wang, Cheng Wang, Kang, the king period) continuation of the basic style of the late Shang Dynasty. Few words clan bronze inscriptions are mostly subservient to-week business Dynasty. Taotie on the bronze sculpture in Xia and Zhou has a number of types. But long bronze inscriptions are also more up to record the beginning of Western Zhou Dynasty established many important facts such as King Wu grams business, as Wang Zuoyi, conquests, Zhaowang Nan Zheng, etc., in addition to involving the early Western Zhou Dynasty seal points, reward, sacrifice, official and other aspects of the system. Bronze inscriptions, some appear thick font strokes, while others are regular and symmetrical to the direction of development.
After the mid-bronze bronze inscriptions (King Mu, Prince Gong, Yi Wang, Xiao Wang period) the middle of the court record order book of bronze inscriptions appeared and gradually into the mainstream, some bronze inscriptions the word became popular in the set (such as "descendants of years Yongbao use it ", etc.). Most have become regular bronze inscriptions, text gradually mature. Late Bronze bronze inscriptions more of a long, mostly nested volumes of court life and so on. Some of the patterns on the bronze sculpture looks like dragon, some looks like the tiger, some like the cattle, sheep or a deer. The war and litigation aspects seen from time to time. Fresh thin and uniform font, the ranks of neat, elegant and solemn shape.
Spring and Autumn period bronze inscriptions. Spring and Autumn Period bronze bronze inscriptions are mostly of the national system of princes and Bureaucrats, content, and more reflect the princes and nobles of the laws and institutions of social life. There are also some decorations on the bronze statue look like a bird, the phoenix or even human. In content and form have shown a strong local characteristics.Spring and early Western Zhou bronze close to the characteristics of bronze inscriptions, since the mid-began to highlight the differences between countries, between different geographic regions bronze bronze inscriptions have great differences, especially in the lower reaches of the Yellow River Qilu, Jin Central Plains, the South Asian countries Qin and customs of the most typical.
Qi possessed of abundant information, the font long, thin, neat. There is also a relaxing strokes, bold style. Two forms of calligraphy are different but the same-shaped structure, the former should be a deliberate process of artistic fonts. The mysteriousness of the bronze sculpture has gradually declined in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Lu possessed more reserved style of the late Western Zhou Jin, steady warmth, or Lu Zhou on reservations. Jin Jin's body is more complicated instruments, some more sloppy, more scattered distribution. Some have maintained the tradition of the late Western Zhou Dynasty, neat and smooth strokes.
South Asian countries including the JAC and the vassal state near the Huaihe River Basin (Chu, Wu, Yue, Cai, Xu, Xu, etc.). This area possessed by the "bird book worm" is the most famous. "Bird book worm" that is patterned text, often in the wrong form of gold. Bird books to make a bird-shaped strokes, or in the text up and down for a bird-shaped decoration, more common in weapons above. Anyhow, dragon and phoenix are still the pattern motif of many chinese bronze sculpture. Book worm-like strokes pretending to be winding twisting, bending like a worm named. Qin bronze bronze inscriptions and engravings on drum close, rigorous structure, shaped on the regular, circular strokes on the turning circle fold change, getting close to the small seal.
Warring States period, the social, political and economic patterns have undergone tremendous changes, the traditional aristocracy evolved into new political centralization, emerging landlord class entered the political arena, in all aspects of social structure emerged as a new look. It can be said that many patterning inscriptions on the china bronze sculpture are evolved from the decorations of dragon and phoenix. These changes are reflected in bronze, not only in the ritual system some changes, bronze bronze inscriptions have meaning relative to the Spring and Autumn period of great change.