Fang Ding in the early Western Zhou Dynasty basically followed the Shang Ding form, and was eliminated after the middle Western Zhou Dynasty. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the round tripod evolved from a column foot to a hoof foot, and its body became wider, and its largest belly diameter gradually moved down from the middle, so long inscriptions were more common.
"Just one look, just stab the bottom of my heart-Zhengzhou, is indeed a king's capital! Two bronze statues of Fang Ding, one meter high, dating back more than 3,500 years, are definitely not used by ordinary people or ordinary aristocrats. They can only belong to the heavy weapons of Shang royal family! Besides, not one, but a pair! Then they appeared in pairs, usually used by the royal family. Even the cauldron is bound to be related to the sacrifices of the Shang royal family, what's more, the two cauldrons are placed together in an orderly manner! From that moment on, for decades, in my mind, Zhengzhou Mall site is no longer an ordinary Shang Dynasty city site, but a real, visible and tangible imperial capital! "
More than 30 years have passed. Speaking of 1974, the "first reaction" after seeing the rusty Ling Du Fang Ding in a dark tunnel in September, Mr. Yang Yubin, a researcher at the Henan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, blurted out "Wang Du"-"Two bronze cauldrons that are about to break ground. At first glance, they stand out from the crowd and are self-evident.
The names of "Zhengzhou Mall" and "Zhengzhou Mall" have been used for twenty or thirty years, even by convention, but it is difficult to make a breakthrough in archaeological work-although after Mr. Guo Moruo guessed that "Zhengzhou Mall" might be the capital of Shang Dynasty in 1959, archaeologists tried their best to find "Zhengzhou Mall" as evidence of Wang Du, but it was not until 1974.
1On July 4th, 959, Mr. Guo Moruo made a special trip to Henan to inspect the site of Zhengzhou Mall. When he saw the archaeological site, he was very shocked and immediately wrote a poem: "Zhengzhou is another Yin ruins, and it is suspected that this is Ding's capital. The ancient underground city is deep and thick, with rich relics in the tombs ... "But Lao Guo's" suspicion "is only a kind of" scientific conjecture "after all, far from real scientific cognition-although he guessed that" Zhengzhou Mall "might be the place where Wang Shang and Zhong Ding moved their capital, he could not produce any" gold and silver "as evidence.
After sleeping in the ground for more than 3000 years, Ling Du Fang Ding rediscovered the light, and unexpectedly met with contemporary archaeologists and even scientists, which gradually made the site of Zhengzhou Mall move from "chaos" to "clarity" and gradually upgraded his understanding of it: Zhengzhou Mall, an ordinary city site in the early Shang Dynasty, "suspected" capital of Zhong Ding, and the early Shang Dynasty capital. Zhong Ding, the capital of a king in the early Shang Dynasty, moved here-Zhengzhou Mall, Dubo, Shang Tang, the capital built by Tang Cheng, the founding king of Shang Dynasty. At that time, it was the largest and most prosperous city in the world, which was built 3600 years ago and was the heart and capital of Shang Dynasty. With the existence of Zhengzhou Mall, Zhengzhou, which looks young because of dating, has become one of the "eight ancient capitals of China" and has been promoted to the China Grand Ancient Capital Club.
This series of "transmutations" began with the discovery of Lingdu Fang Ding. In other words, Fang Ding, Ling Du, straightened the spine of China scholars in recognizing "Zhengzhou Mall"! -"Zhengzhou Mall" is the largest and oldest capital of the early Shang Dynasty discovered by China. It is an irreplaceable milestone in the history of China's urban development. The world-famous commercial civilization began here. Its discovery not only found the source of civilization for the Yin Ruins in Anyang, but also provided a basis for finding the pre-Shang culture and Xia culture. It is of great significance in the exploration of ancient civilizations in China and even the world. "..." The bronze ritual vessels unearthed in Zhengzhou Mall are unprecedented in quantity, beauty in modeling and exquisite casting patterns. All these indicate that during the shopping mall period, China's ancient civilization entered a preliminary glorious period. "
"In the past, some scholars believed that the bronzes unearthed in Zhengzhou Mall were temporarily buried when the Shang royal family encountered an emergency and fled to Xiaoshuangqiao (Shang Dynasty site) in the northwest of Zhengzhou. I don't think so. These bronzes are buried quite regularly. How can they be buried so peacefully in an emergency? They, probably, are still related to Shang Zhouwang's sacrifice! " Mr. Yang Yubin said, "In 1974, the first batch of bronzes, two bronze dings, one with a height of 100cm and the other with a height of 87cm, were unearthed in Ling Du Street, but in the soil, the two tripod mouths were on a horizontal line, which was obviously intentional; 1982, when the second batch of bronzes were unearthed in Shuncheng Street, I found that there was a layer of wood under the bronzes here, which was of course intentional; 1996, when the third batch of bronzes was unearthed in Xiangyang Food Factory, it was even more strange-the whole cow (skeleton) was together with the bronze tripod. This can only be a sacrifice.