Posted 2017/4/12
"Ding" is a pictographic word. Its upper part looks like a vessel, while the...
The four-legged "simuwu" ding collected by the Museum of Chinese History is a bronze ding made in the late Shang Dynasty. It is quadrate, four-legged, measuring 133cm in height and 875 kg in weight, and it is the biggest extant bronze ware of the Shang Dynasty. In the belly of the ding are inscribed three characters – "simuwu". It was cast by the Emperor of Shang as a ritual article to sacrifice his mother "wu".
