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The role of ding vessels in the Zhou period continued, as Qin cemeteries contained ding vessels that expressed rank. [35] Food vessels such as the fu (簠), gui (簋), and dui (敦) that were popular in the Zhou era disappeared by the Han dynasty, during which the ding, zhong (钟), hu (壶), and fang were the main vessel types used. [36]
Taotie on a ding from late Shang dynasty. The taotie pattern was a popular bronze-ware decorative design in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, named by scholars of the Song dynasty (960–1279) after a monster on Zhou ding vessels with a head but no body mentioned in Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals (239 BC). [15]
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 ...
The Mao Gong ding (Chinese: 毛公鼎; pinyin: Máogōng dǐng; lit. 'Lord Mao's cauldron') is a bronze tripod ding vessel from the Western Zhou dynasty ( c. 1045 – c. 771 BCE ). After the retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan , it is currently located at the National Palace Museum in Taipei .
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 ...
The Da Ke ding (Chinese: 大克鼎; pinyin: Dà Kè dǐng) is an ancient Chinese bronze ding vessel from the Western Zhou dynasty (1046–771 BC). It was unearthed in 1890 in Fufeng County, Shaanxi, after being buried for nearly 3000 years, and it is now on display in the Shanghai Museum. [1]
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The Da He ding or Da He fangding (Chinese: 大禾方鼎; pinyin: Dà Hé fāngdǐng) is an ancient Chinese bronze rectangular ding vessel from the late Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC). Unearthed in Tanheli, Ningxiang, Hunan in 1959, it is on display in the Hunan Museum.