chinese art research paper

Chinese Art is one of the famous topics in the history of art. In Metropolitan Museum have display a larger area exhibit about Chinese art in Florence and Herbert Irving Asian Wing. In the showroom, they had displayed large quantity of Chinese calligraphy, Chinese bronzes and Chinese ceramics. The history of the Chinese has such a high technic to cast with details on the body of the bronzes. The Ritual Wine Vessels are one of the majorities of bronzes in the Shang Dynasty. There have different type of vessels in different Centuries. One of the ritual wine vessels is called “Jue” in Chinese, which are the generic terms of drinking vessels in history. “Jue” is a Chinese tradition utensil for drinking vessels. On the body of the bronzes, there have different artworks cast on the bronzes means different dynasty years.

Chinese bronzes are the Chinese culture and technology on behalf of the Xia and Shang Dynasties. It is the earliest Chinese history has fully developed writing system. The Bronze Age in China began in Xia Dynasty (1670-1600 B.C.), Which is the earliest bronzewares are identified with the Erlitiou phase of Yanshi. It was a special position in society, and is a product of a strict hierarchy. Since the beginning of the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.), Chinese bronze culture toward the pinnacle of the development. The people in the Shang Dynasty use bronzes as cooking appliances, wine holder and even on the weapons. Later it appeared to gradually replace by iron in the Han Dynasty.

The early part of the Bronze Age is still unknown. Base on the documentation, the major of the discovery sites are located south of the yellow river in Henan province. Shaanxi bronzes unearthed area is more than in other places. The archeolog...

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...vessel. The color of the vessel is in rich blue-green surface.

We can see all about the history is Chinese art in the section of the Florence and Herbert Irving Asian Wing in the museum. We can see a lot of bronzewares that dated from Shang Dynasty (1600-1046B.C.) to Western Zhou Dynasty (1046-771 B.C.), and ceramic goods in different century of China. In the glass case it shows three kinds of ritual wine vessels, it is the ritual wine beaker(Gu) and ritual wine vessel. It dated in 13th century and 15th Century. Also is also cast in late Shang Dynasty to early Zhou Dynasty. The ritual wine beaker is also the utensils for drinking wine, the shape of the beaker like a vase.

According to the written records, Chinese history has more than thousands of years. The archeologists still have incomplete documents on the history of China. Many relics are still unearthed.