Ding cauldron of Kuan Er, mid-Spring and Autumn period (670-571 BCE)-China Archive

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Category:Bronzes
Function:Ritual, Food utensil
Material:mineral/metal/bronze
Description:. There is an inscription in the cover with five lines and thirty words: “In the first month of August, it was auspicious for Renshen. Kuan Er, the grandson of Duke Su, chose his lucky gold to feed and multiply his eyebrows. He will live forever.”. On the auspicious day of Renshen in the early August of one year, Kuan Er, grandson of Duke Su of the State of the Soviet Union, specially chose auspicious gold and copper materials to cast as sacrificial vessels, hoping that he would live a long life and keep them useful forever. Its inscriptions have important research value in the study of various marquis titles and the situation of the country. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the tripod was often equipped with a lid, and the vertical ear on the mouth edge was shifted to the ventral side. The body was repeatedly covered with patterns of coiled cobras and beastly ribbons, which were characteristic of this time