Chinese bronze inscriptions
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Chinese bronze inscriptions, also referred to as bronze script or bronzeware script, comprise Chinese writing made in several styles on ritual bronzes mainly during the Late Shang dynasty and Western
Rubbing of the inscription featured on the Song ding (c. 800 BC)
Left: Bronze fāng zūn ritual wine container, c. 1000 BC. The inscription commemorates a gift of cowrie shells to its owner. Right: Bronze fāng yí ritual container c. 1000 BC. An inscription of 180 characters appears twice on it, commenting on state rituals that accompany court ceremony, recorded by an official scribe.
Bronze biānzhōng bells from the early Warring States Tomb of Marquis Yĭ of Zēng
Bird-worm seal script
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The bird-worm seal script is a type of ancient seal script originating in Ancient China.
Chinese bronze inscriptions
…for instance, were strikingly divergent. In addition, artistic scripts also emerged in the late Spring and Autumn to early Warring States, such as Bird Script (Chinese: 鳥書; pinyin: niǎoshū), also called Bird Seal Script (鳥篆; niǎozhuàn), and Worm Script (蟲書; chóngshū). Of the abundant Chinese ritual bronze…
The bird seal script on the Sword of Goujian and its equivalents in modern Chinese