Hezun was an outstanding bronze ware in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and it was also a standard instrument in the Zhou Chengwang era. 38.8 cm in height and 28.8 cm in diameter; The mouth is round and square, decorated with four sides, the neck is decorated with silkworm patterns, and the mouth is decorated with banana leaf patterns. It is based on thunder patterns, with high relief corners and gluttonous patterns. Not only is he solemn and generous, but also has a strong temperament, and his spirit is exposed and his three-dimensional sense is strong; The round shape and the gluttonous lines on the animal's face with high relief add mystery to this rusty Western Zhou heavy weapon.

Jia Cun, in the northeast suburb of Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, was once the seat of the social tribes in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the cultural relics of the Western Zhou Dynasty were constantly found here. There is a cliff about 3 meters high behind the house of a family named Chen in the west street of Jia Cun Town; The Chen family borrowed soil from the cliff root all the year round, and a large clod of about one cubic meter stood out from the land without soil. Chen Laoer was afraid that the clod would fall and hurt people, so he set up a ladder and pursed his lips to dig it out. Unexpectedly, it fell down without digging a few clods, and an ancient bronze ware was buried in the clods; After removing the rusty soil, the gluttonous lines are exposed. Chen didn't know it was a national treasure, so he put it upstairs for food.

1In August, 965, due to economic difficulties, the Chen family put this bronze ware together with some other scrap copper in sacks and sold it to a waste collection station in Baoji City, where they have been selling 30 yuan money.

The staff of Baoji Museum like to visit the waste collection station. 1one day in September, 965, the old boy turned to the salesroom, and an old worker told him that he had recently received an ancient bronze ware and asked him if he wanted it. This bronze statue was taken out of the waste pile in the corner of the back room. When the old boy saw it, his eyes lit up and he repeatedly said, Isn't this a cultural relic of the Zhou Dynasty? We want it! It was shipped back to the museum that day.

1975, this bronze ware was sent to the Forbidden City in Beijing for exhibition. After rust removal, it was found that there was an inscription on the bottom of the device, with the line 12 and the word 122, which was of great academic value. Inscription records that when Wang Wu moved to Yin stubborn people in Chengzhou period of Western Zhou Dynasty, he admonished "Zong Xiaozi" in Jing room on April. After the training, Wang Cheng rewarded him with 30 strings of coins. How to use this money to make a bronze statue to sacrifice to his father. Therefore, this heavy weapon of the Western Zhou Dynasty was named "He Zun" by the archaeological community.

He Zun's inscriptions can complement each other with the pre-Qin classics "Shangshu" and other chapters, and are important historical materials for studying the history of the early Zhou Dynasty. What's more worth mentioning is that the word "China" was used in He Zun's inscription for the first time in the discovered literature.