So the Zhou's ritual feasting with vessels like our gui was in part a public assertion that the gods endorsed the new regime. Gui such as ours have been found over a wide swathe of China ...

Chinese Zhou ritual vessel (made around 1050 BC). Bronze gui, found in western China. How often do you dine with the dead? It may seem a strange question, but if you're Chinese it may not be quite ...

In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the ceremonies that underlay the ... of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through ...

42.2. As well as another bronze hu vase with cover, Eastern Zhou dynasty, illustrated by W.Tao, Chinese Bronzes from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 2009, pp.96-97. Such vessels, prominent during ...

a Chinese art and cultural historian, said: "We cannot underestimate the wealth and sophistication of the late Zhou culture that created such an outstanding bronze vessel. Only men of high status ...

Discussed at length by Robert Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M ... ‘Bronze-Casting Technology in the Late Shang Dynasty’, Mirroring China’s Past. Emperors, Scholars, and their Bronzes, ...

Summary and Key Points: China’s ambitious ... lead boat of the Zhou-class, which was notable for featuring "a distinctive X-shape stern, which was designed to make the vessel more maneuverable." ...