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Bronze craft demonstrate the great intelligence and effort of the ancient craft man. They commanded the smelting technology long time ago, and mixed bronze and tin in different proportion, then made out different bronze crafts for different use. That include tool, weapon, cooker, wine vessel, war vehicle and horse, mirror, etc. The shape and the design of the bronze crafts are extractive. But the rare and exquisite works were almost completely possessed by feudal nobles.
Different design style was formed based on different times' culture background. The bronze crafts in the prophase of Shang dynasty were light and thin with simple decoration. But in the anaphase of the Shang and the beginning of the Xizhou dynasty, the decoration became rich and magnificent. And most of the design expressed the spirit of worship to god. That included animals design and geometric figures and so on. From the metaphase of Xizhou to the metaphase of Chunqiu, the style developed into simplicity. Then the curve and circle veins were flourished. Meanwhile long posy grew more than before.
Since the anaphase of Chunqiu to ZhanGuo period, the bronze craft's shape was legerity with vivid animals and exquisite dragon, cloud. And some thin thread carving of hunting, attack, conviviality was also involved in that.
Here you can see many bronze crafts with high level imitation skill based on the famous original antique crafts that they were outstanding in different dynasties. They are telling you our brilliant civilization and our ancestors' the high level of professional proficiency in doing bronze wares.