Chinese bronze inscriptions

Jin Wen is a kind of writing name of Chinese characters, referring to the inscriptions cast on the bronze ware of Yin Shang and Zhou dynasties, also known as Zhong Ding Wen. Shang and Zhou dynasties were the age of bronze ware. The rites of bronze ware were represented by tripod, and the musical instrument was represented by bell. "Zhong Ding" was the synonym of bronze ware.
China had entered the Bronze Age in the Xia Dynasty, and the smelting of copper and the manufacturing technology of copper ware were very developed. Since the Zhou Dynasty also called copper gold, the inscriptions on the bronze vessels were called "Jin Wen" or "Jijin script". And because the number of words on the Zhong Ding is the most, it was also called "Zhong Ding Wen" in the past.
The application of Jin Wen lasted from the end of the Shang Dynasty to the end of the Qin Dynasty over 800 years. The number of words in Jin Wen, according to Rong Geng's "Jin Wen Editor" records, a total of 3722, among which there are 2420 identifiable characters.