How ancient Chinese bronzes were created

Dr. Robert Mowry explains how ancient Chinese bronzes from the Shang and Zhou period were created using the piece mold technique.


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[free_spirit]

How was the core removed afterwards if it was made of fired clay???

[velazquezarmouries]

You know the alchemist is being serious when he pulls out the ding

[parth]

This is called lost wax process may be ...first stage you have to make a clay model, then applying wax, then fired, when the wax is gone, they added bronze..and come out shape clay they made with the shape of bronze...

[DrFaltermeier]

The process is missing various stages and need to be better explained.

[chinainmyeyes]

I just uploaded a video about Shanxi bronze museum, it was fabulous place for Chinese bronze lovers!!!

[mrj]

The old era, their should not say its china heritage now.. but towards indigenous people..

[etymologist]

Koreahistory = go(古) chosen

The Korean ancestors in ancient times of the ice age survived by escaping from the cold living inside caves.

They constantly made a fire to avoid the cold and drive wild animals out and they happened to find the copper(CU, bronze).

The Korean term Copper means caves and bronze.

In addition, the tribe who had discovered the copper (called copper tribe) created letters originated by the characters like clessi, clethi, cle, glishi and so on..

Afterwards, they constructed a civilized country Gojoseon based on the bronze era.

Eventually, King Sejong not only systemized the letters of Go chosen and but also restored and compiled a language that contained sound(Pronunciation sound, 發音) for the purpose of establishing the identity of chosen Dynasty.

But this historical fact was distorted during the colonization by Japan.

In addition, many cultural assets and the history of Korea were incorporated into Japan.

Japan erased four characters such as
《ㆍ, ㆁ, ㆆ, ㅿ》 among 28 letters.

The reason why Japan damaged Korean history is that everyone may be able to realize easily that the owner of the pyramid was the Copper tribe and that Joseon people are the descendants of them if we Koreans still have those four letters.

The first 《●》 means an initial life particle, the second 《ㆁ》 means the combination of yin and yang initial particles.

The third 《ㆆ》 means the combined life particles coming down to the horizontal lines.

The fourth 《ㅿ》 means the life particles are wrapped and protected.

And 《ㅿ》 is three meaning mountain, pyramid and womb.

[petertran]

B.s. the bai Yue ppl had bronze dr thousands of years ago. Way before the hans.

[etymologist]

A country made by my ancestors!, The Shang dynasty[go(古) chosen] is the ancient state of the Republic of Korea. China is an ancient state of the Zhou Dynasty.

Character(letter, character, 文字 ) combinations in Korea. [ ㄱ + ㄴ = 卍]