From 3000 BC to 2000 BC, the earliest bronzes in China were found in Erlitou site in Yanshi, Henan Province, about 2000 BC, and the age was about 2 1 century BC to17th century BC.
Bronze ware is an instrument made of bronze alloy (alloy of red copper and tin), which was born in the bronze age of human civilization. Bronzes appear all over the world and are symbols of world civilization.
The earliest bronzes appeared in Babylon 6000 years ago, and were gradually replaced by iron in BC.
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Religious objects such as bronze in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and other civilizations are ceremonial, mostly stone products. Although there are also very early bronze statues in these areas, such as the full-length portrait of Papi I of the sixth dynasty in ancient Egypt and the head of King Akkad, the number is very small.
There were many bronzes in ancient Egypt after the New Kingdom period in BC 16, but the statues were all small castings. The bronze diet in Egypt is mainly barbecue, and there is no need to use a lot of daily necessities. The cultural tradition and social demand of bronze production are not obvious.
China bronze casting technology outshines others. Dr. Chen Yurong, a blogger of green economy in China, believes that different cultural backgrounds have created different technical systems of Chinese and Western bronzes.
In ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and subsequent Greek and Roman civilizations, the production techniques of bronzes were mainly forging and wax loss. The full-length portraits of Papi I and his son in ancient Egypt were forged, while the head of King Akkad was cast in bronze by lost wax method.
The social demand, production technology, modeling and art of Chinese bronzes interact to form a prosperous bronze culture, which is a unique display of classical civilization in the Bronze Age.
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Baidu encyclopedia-bronze ware