In the history of 1800 years, the ancestors of China created brilliant historical civilization, among which Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Xia and Shang Dynasties and bronzes in Yin and Shang Dynasties were historical symbols of human civilization. During the Shang Dynasty, the bronze craft was very developed, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions was also very mature. Therefore, Xia Shang Dynasty (about 2 100 BC to about100 BC) (also known as Shang Dynasty or Shang Zhou Dynasty) is also called "Bronze Age".
China Bronze Age can be divided into four stages from Shang and Zhou Dynasties to Warring States Period: heyday, decline, revival and decline. Some scholars also divide this period into five stages: pre-Yin Shang, post-Yin Shang, western circulation, pre-Eastern Zhou and post-Eastern Friday.
China bronze culture has its own characteristics and styles, which can be divided into different regional types. China entered the Bronze Age and generally experienced several different stages of development.
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The bronze age is a stage of human material and cultural development, marked by the use of bronzes. With the increase of bronzes, the productivity level of agriculture and handicraft industry is improved, and the material living conditions are gradually enriched. After the appearance of bronzes, it played an epoch-making role in improving social productivity.
China is the earliest known copper smelting technology civilization in the world. At present, the earliest copper smelting in the world was found in Jiangzhai Site, Shaanxi Province, China. The brass pieces and rings that were smelted before 4700 BC unearthed in Jiangzhai site are the oldest brass smelting in the world, which indicates that human beings have initially mastered the metal smelting technology and laid the foundation for the arrival of the Bronze Age.
Mesopotamia, located in Central Asia, is the first known civilization in the world to master bronze smelting technology. When bronze smelting was unearthed in 4000 BC, mankind initially stepped into the threshold of the bronze age.
The bronze culture in China originated from the Yellow River, the Yangtze River and the Pearl River valley, about 5,000 years ago, and ended in the 5th century BC, which is roughly equivalent to the Hongshan Culture and Liangzhu cultures in the archaeological era and the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Spring and Autumn Period recorded in the literature, about 1500 years ago. This is always related to the emergence, development and decline of China's slave country.
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Baidu encyclopedia-pre-Qin dynasty
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Baidu encyclopedia-bronze age