Henan Museum expert talks with Youth About Shang Zhou Bronze Weapons

• HENAN MUSEUM
• Time：2020-12-15 15:28

Guest Speaker: Deputy Director of the Henan Museum, Shi Xiaoting

       On the afternoon of July 24, the 15th session of Henan Museum Salon was held as scheduled in conference room 3 of the West Wing building. Shi Xiaoting, deputy director of the collection management department, gave a keynote lecture entitled "Bronze Ge and Bronze Sword of Shang and Zhou Dynasties in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River" . More than 50 young workers took part in the event.

      "The important affairs of the state, in the sacrifice and the military. ". Bronze Age, bronze ritual vessels and weapons, are the country's heavy weapons. Shi Xiaoting took the Shang and Zhou Bronze swords unearthed in Henan Province in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River as an example, this paper expounds the development and evolution history, cultural relic value and historical status of the two kinds of bronze fighting weapons to the young workers.

      Shi Xiaoting made the young workers understand more intuitively in the form of pictures that bronze and GE gradually became sacrificial and funerary objects from opposing weapons, and from the bronze GE casting process, modeling, use and so on for everyone to carry out a detailed interpretation. Shi Xiaoting traced the origin of the bronze sword with ancient documents, and buried the bronze sword with the tombs found in today's archaeology, to tell you about the bronze sword in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties historical status and bronze sword from the military field into the cultural field of development process.

      After the lecture, Teacher Shi had a deep exchange with the young staff.

【Guest introduction】Shi Xiaoting, a graduate in archaeology and Museology from the History Department of Zhengzhou University, holds a Ph. D. in archaeology of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and is a fellow of the Wembo institute at Henan Museum and Deputy Director of the collection management department. His research interests include archaeology of the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, with special emphasis on the study of Shang and Zhou Combat Weapons and museology.

Editor:Yangcong