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Where is the hometown of Chinese bronzes?
Baoji is known as the "hometown of bronzes" because a large number of bronzes of the Western Zhou Dynasty have been found many times in this beautiful land. The reason is that there was a splendid history and culture here before the ancient Western Zhou Dynasty and even before the Western Zhou Dynasty. The earliest is the culture of Beishouling in Baoji. At Beishouling site, we excavated a large number of cultural relics in the transitional period between Paleolithic and Neolithic. Many cultural relics are still unknown. As a cultural relic worker in Baoji, my father studied it deeply and heard a little about it. However, compared with the profoundness of this culture, it is only a glimpse.

The discovery of bronzes is too numerous to mention. Because it is close to us in time, and many unearthed cultural relics can be seen from it, from the perspective of understanding, we know that Baoji is the hometown of bronzes. According to my idea, this is nothing in the land of western Qin dynasty, not as good as the culture of northern Shouling! ! !

Judging from the bronze relics unearthed at present, the cultural relics unearthed in Baoji are mainly from the Western Zhou Dynasty, that is, from the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, Shan Gong, to the later Zhou Dynasty. The most unearthed cultural relics are Gui, Ding, Pan, Ge, pots, beans, pots, chimes and daily necessities.

About 25,000 bronzes were unearthed. Since the fourth year of Emperor Xuandi in the Western Han Dynasty (54 BC), bronzes have been unearthed in Baoji, and they have been unearthed in all dynasties. Its huge quantity, high quality products and the importance of inscriptions rank first in the country and enjoy a good reputation at home and abroad. Mao, Da, Pan and Pan, once known as "national treasures" in the late Qing Dynasty, came from this magical and ancient land of Baoji. He Zun,, wallboard,, Qin and other national famous national treasure bronzes fully show that Baoji is well-deserved as the hometown of bronzes.

If you want to ask the most representative bronzes unearthed in Baoji, it's hard to say. The nine treasures listed above are priceless, regardless of each other, because these nine cultural relics can best represent Baoji's reputation as the hometown of bronzes.