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The Houmuwu ding (Chinese: 后母戊鼎; pinyin: Hòumǔwù dǐng), also called Simuwu ding (司母戊鼎; Sīmǔwù dǐng), is a rectangular bronze ding (sacrificial vessel, one of the common types of Chinese ritual bronzes) of the ancient Chinese Shang dynasty. It is the heaviest piece of bronzeware to survive from anywhere in the ancient ...
In Chinese history and culture, possession of one or more ancient ding is often associated with power and dominion over the land. Therefore, the ding is often used as an implicit symbolism for power. The term "inquiring of the ding" (Chinese: 問鼎; pinyin: wèn dǐng) is often used interchangeably with the quest for power.
Fu Hao (traditional Chinese: 婦好; simplified Chinese: 妇好; pinyin: Fù Hǎo; lit. 'Lady [surnamed] Hao') [a] died c. 1200 BC, posthumous temple name Mu Xin (母辛), was one of the many wives of King Wu Ding of the Shang dynasty and also served as a military general and high priestess. [2]
Chinese bronze inscriptions, also referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, comprise Chinese writing made in several styles on ritual bronzes mainly during the Late Shang dynasty (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BC) and Western Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 771 BC). Types of bronzes include zhong bells and ding tripodal cauldrons. Early inscriptions ...
Ding Hou (11 October 1921, Hsingkan, Jiangxi, China – 9 September 2008, Leiden, Netherlands) was a Dutch botanist and mycologist. [1] In 1945, he obtained a botany degree from the National Chung Cheng University in Jiangxi, becoming a botanical assistant there on graduation.
Baopuzi mentions "Records on the Nine Cauldrons" (Jiu ding ji 九鼎記), an alleged description of the vessels commenting on their protective function. In all Chinese speaking societies, if someone commented on someone's words as having the weight of nine tripod cauldrons (一言九鼎), this was a great compliment to the person. It meant that ...
Hou Minghao (Chinese: 侯明昊, born 3 August 1997 in Beijing, China), also known as Neo Hou, is a Chinese actor and singer.He is best known for his roles in the film The Devotion of Suspect X; and in the dramas When We Were Young, The Lost Tomb 2: Explore with the Note, A Girl Like Me, Our Times, Dashing Youth, and Fangs of Fortune.
Shang dynasty bronze gui Gui with four handles, a cover and a square base The "Kang Hou gui", early Western Zhou (11th century BC). British Museum, London. [1] [2] A gui is a type of bowl-shaped ancient Chinese ritual bronze vessel used to hold offerings of food, probably mainly grain, for ancestral tombs. As with other shapes, the ritual ...