One hundred bucket of gold is not as good as the rolls of poetry and literature. So that bronze because of the taste retains the feelings. Moreover, because of the culture, it spreads the taste. The taste unconsciously affects the recipient and changes the attitudes and social values of the recipient toward life. Bronze render the civilization and progress take place of decadent and negative feelings. At the same time the bronze affects people, it can better decorate people’s living space. A good bronze can increase the cultural and artistic taste of the room, build the atmosphere of culture and art, and highlight the aesthetic and style, so that people will stay in the middle of an environment of art and taste.

Of course, a valuable bronze will not only make people feel pleasant, tasting makes heart shock, but also increases the value of the investment value.

Second, bronze is the painstaking efforts of designers. Process shaped pleasing shape and external beauty of the bronze in order to meet the people’s senses and feelings of pleasure. Artwork integrates a variety of crafts, including traditional textiles, bronze sculpture, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, wooden and even building performance. Modern electroplating, stamping, and the rule making, printing and other production technology perfectly performs history, literature, religion and other classical material. In the meanwhile, it adopt the materials that today we can reach hand on, expensive or cheap, natural or artificial, simple or complex, from gold and silver jewelry to flowers and trees, water and soil from gravel to nanomaterials. Everything is put into use.

To use the ceremony, the harmony is most precious. It is moderate and properly harnessed. It is necessary to make sure what kind of emotions does the giver want to express, but also know that what sort of feeling does the receiver need so as to achieve the communication relations and enhance the effect of friendship. If it is for the friends just opened business, a bronze bull will express the blessing for the new enterprise. If a friend’s business failed, it is clearly outdated to send them such a bronze. It is better to send him the bronze based on the Foolish Old Man with the meaning of perseverance or the bronze of the theme of beginning the world to express the feeling of motivating and inspiring. For the first visit, to send craft gift of valuable material will certainly make people think suddenly and inevitably wary, because the feelings are not deep enough to know.

In the meanwhile, the expression of emotion does not necessarily have particularly valuable bronze unless it is given to the friend who has a preference for collection. Otherwise they will be affected by the disturbance. Because each person’s preferences, emotions, habits are changing at different times, so there is no bronze that one size fits all. In this sense, the gift should be the most personalized goods. This requires that the giver must be aware of the situation of the recipient in the gift, and carefully consider the appropriate choice.

Bronze is part of the category of craft gift as well as a branch of the gift industry. Bronze on its natural attributes is both artwork and the presents. So it is a trinity good with gift, culture and technology in one. The following is superficial understanding as the bronze practitioner to the gift industry only for your reference.

First of all, bronze is the condensation and the carrier of culture and art. Human history as vast as the smoke and the sea and the profound culture is the inexhaustible treasure-house of the materials and creative sources of long standing. Designers of the bronze select the essence from them and choose the most classic part to take advantage of the modern technology, popular material, fashion, artistic design to meet the needs of today’s people passing emotion. So, bronze bears the feeling in the name of art and culture mellow and deep, noble and distant.

Culture is the soul of the bronze while the process is the body of culture. The two is the both exterior and interior relationship. Therefore, we say that bronze is the organic combination of culture, technology, and emotion. Culture is the basis for the design of bronze. Culture is a unique reflection of the human wisdom and is immortal creation. Since with the culture, human civilization was able to carry on heritage and development. As long as the bronze contains a rich culture, it can have great vitality and it will be worthy of tasting and spreading. The bronze can be called immortal creation.

The bronze not only manifests the culture, and carries the emotions of the giver to complete the process of emotional expression, communication, relationships, increasing the need or mission of friendship.

If the practical gifts meet the material needs of people and let the recipient feel the heartfelt help and thoughtful care even the emotional words, the bronze can answer the spiritual needs of people with a more direct feel and touch. Bronze wins by its beautiful shape, rich connotation of culture and elegant taste. The looked pleasing with thought-provoking meaning, so people are addicted to the bronze. The bronze both the performs the original intentions of the giver, but also make the recipient’s heart from time to time to perceive the joy, shock, or enlightenment brought by the bonze. Practical gifts can be worn or damaged while the bronze can express a long term feeling and taste through its implication of cultural connotation, or even around for hundreds of thousands of years. It can be said to be enduring and precious.

The evolution and progress of ornamentation on the bronze is closely related to the social life, and is consistent with the formation of the national spirit, reflecting the changes and transitions of the ancient Chinese production and life. Early Painted Pottery retains its original, pristine animal worship, traces of nature worship. The bronze becomes the tool of the aristocratic slaveholders to rule the people.

After the Western Zhou Dynasty, the enhancement of the mid-rational color is the real picture that rulers of Western Zhou implement the ritual system and replace the control of the ghost with the patriarchal ethics. Bronze ornamentation of Spring and Autumn Period makes known that the new era of Ceremony Disintegration and new understanding of human values. Human nature breaks through the strange mystery and fog and began to awakening. Every step of the progress of Human civilization, every change of the social life is deeply embedded in the decoration of pottery and bronze, being the bridge of communication with the ancients and our understanding of ancient civilization.

As early as 6500 years ago, the the Yangshao ancestors of Shaanxi Lintong Jiangzhai cast out the first piece of bronze. Soon afterwards, from the Majiayao culture to the era of the Longshan Culture, then, the ancestors left the legacy of the Relics of the bronze bells, ruins of residual copper, crucible fragments and so on. Into the times of Qijia culture, in Gansu and Qinghai, they began smelting or cold forging the bronze knife, chisel, cone drill, ax, dagger, ring and small accessories and mirrors. These show the slow transition period of the Chinese culture from the Bronze and Copper Age to Bronze Age.

To the Xia Dynasty, the bronze process has made considerable progress on the basis of summing up the manufacturing experience of the Neolithic artifacts. The unique face of the early bronze culture area of Erlitou Site and the site of Xiaxian East Feng is broadly in line with the scope of the rule of the Xia Dynasty recorded in historical material. A large number of bronze wares of archaeological excavation can confirm with the historical facts of the Xia people. Particularly the the refining slag, copper crucible fragments, Tao Fan, debris found in the Erlitou site indicate that the bronze smelting workshop has begun to take shape. Therefore, a large number of bronze casting and the use is an important feature of Erlitou culture which has entered into a period of development of the Chinese Bronze Age. The bronze wares of Xia dynasty have been gotten rid of the primitive stage of the Neolithic bronze manufacturing.

A large number of ritual vessels and weapons formed the basic pattern of Chinese bronze. The mysterious animal faces start the main pattern of the Chinese bronze decoration. The solemn and heavy aesthetic sense even represents the overall artistic style of the Chinese bronze. These have made necessary bedding for the arrival of the heyday of the bronze art of Shang and Zhou dynasties.

An Enlightenment of the Human Art

In the early human society, the animal has the magic power towards the man, while human beings are passive. The helplessness, fear and awe towards nature make people in anticipation of the divine refuge, even think of myself as some kind of beast and portray half man half beast shape and decoration in the bronze. They use the weirder and more ferocious images on the bonze to prevent disasters and drive off evil, and enhance their own sense of security. At this time, the gluttonous decoration on bronze often constitutes the center of all ornamentation and make people fee terrified. Hideous decoration is the projection of the fate of the terrorist mentality in the decoration of objects as well as the embodiment of terror to different race or nation and the mark of their own clan to overcome the fear.

China’s Bronze Age began in the Xia Dynasty

The bronze wares of Xia Dynasty have limited category, mainly are small pieces of tools and weapons. The bronze shape of early Xia Dynasty is mainly affected by the impact of various types of pottery of the same period, full of strong original start-up atmosphere. Just from the Bronze Jue, in general, there are two shapes. One is the original type. The style basically imitates pottery jue. Its appearance has the similar characteristics as the hand made pottery jue found in Erlitou site, slender, flat, short feet. The lotus leaf-like side of the mouth and spout extends unevenly. Such a bronze jue resembles the pottery in the appearance.

The other modeling is more refined type. The wall is evenly thin and smooth while the lines are narrow and graceful and fine. In spite of the similar slender waist and flat bottom, it is apparently made in advance and detailed trim on the clay mold. The three legs are slender and slightly curved. The changes from the original type to fine-form reflect the shape of the bronze transforming from simple to complex and diverse as well as the extensive evolution from cruse to delicate. This has opened a new road for the novel shapes of the Shang Dynasty bronze objects.

 Erlitou bronze general does not have decoration, but some bronze cups are carved with ornamentation like a row or two rows of nails in the front side. Some artifacts also have simple and textured clouds and other patterns. In addition, noteworthy is the plaques inlaid with turquoise. The animal faces in the bronze plaque in addition to the two outside board eyes, other parts are abstract rather than realistic. It is also the already known earliest bronze animal faces. Even though it is not found any kind of animal decorations on the bronze of Erlitou bronze, but there has already been deformed animal ornamentation inside the bronze ge of Erlitou period. Therefore it can not be ruled out that at this time animal pattern may appear on the ritual bronze.