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National Museum of China collection at the business end of weekly with a bronze sculpture ax. This huge bronze ax shape, heavy fine. The shape of the flat square, there are two sides of a square shoulder wear, micro-curved blade, large blade. Engraved on both sides of the body of angry people face and mouth, eyebrows, eyes, nose, ears are protruding, bushy eyebrows was a rope-like, eyes wide open, there are small holes under the nose, mouth slightly concave, grimace in pain, teeth exposed, double ears large. The whole face hideous, very awesome trend, daunting, Ning Li highlight the beauty of ancient art.

Yue is an ancient weapon, but also political and military power of the symbol. In the archaeological discovery, through the length of 30 cm above the large ax, were unearthed in the larger tombs, and tomb are all high nobility, the National Museum's collection of copper ax this is no exception.

This bronze sculpture ax in 1965 in Shandong Province (when yidu County) Su port Tuen Tomb unearthed. Responsible for the tombs excavated in Shandong Provincial Museum researcher Wang Entian, when he had just graduated from college, was sent to Tuen Mun Su port for inspection. When he came to the scene, saw the tomb of the soil three or four 10 meters long, was taken aback, because this is a rare large tomb.

After excavation, which has four ramps is a "sub"-shaped tomb, the tomb is rectangular, 8.25 m deep, mouth of the tomb is 15 meters wide and 10.7 meters. Early tombs stolen, the only remaining part of the remnants of bronze statue and bronze weapons, jade and pottery. Shang Yin Ruins tomb with a large scale, although less than the tomb, but the shape is basically the same, people who sacrifice and martyrdom large number, especially all the tombs in the Shang Dynasty, the tomb has four ramps in addition to outside suppliers, only the Soviet Union port Tuen Tomb has this award, it should be second only to the Shang tomb of Uncle Fang a class of characters.

Tuen Tomb port in the Soviet Union were found two copper ax, in addition to this collection of National Museum, there is a slightly smaller, but there are inscriptions "sub-ugly" word, the current collection in the Shandong Provincial Museum.

To "sub-ugly" as early as the Song Dynasty, Ming chinese bronze there are records, and since 1931, the Soviet Union have been discovered more than Tuen port "sub-ugly" bronze inscriptions, the scholar was to determine the "sub-ugly" as the clan symbol mark , Tuen Mun Su port should be "sub-ugly," Nation's cemetery.

Tombs of the shape Tuen Soviet port, and the shape features of objects are combined with typical business culture have many similarities, that "sub-ugly" and nationalism are closely linked to the Shang Dynasty, some scholars believe that this was the most powerful within the Green City The Fang is an important business alliance, some scholars believe that is part of the Shang Dynasty was conquest of the "Dong Yi" ethnicity, there are scholars who, according to "written records" records, a thin business end of weekly Regardless here's the home, the bronze dragon or copper and other thin Yue Kou's remains.

In addition, there are a few scholars believe that the Soviet port of Tuen artifacts, although the "business style" device-based, but there are also part of the "week" type device, so that the Soviet era is the port Tuen cemetery after the demise of the Shang Dynasty, or "from the Shang Dynasty to the Zhou transition period ", and the inscriptions" sub-ugly "or Interpretation of the" Asian wife (Qi), "Tun thus speculated that Soviet port site may be contained in the history of the first generation of monarch grandfather Qi Wang (Division Shangfu, commonly known as Jiang Tai-gong) at the beginning of the founding of the important Rhyme - Camp Hill, Su port or Qihou Tuen tomb cemetery.