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Shang Dynasty
ca. 1500-1100 BCE
Part of the Bronze Age
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Bronze Age = 2000 – 771 BCE
• Xia Dynasty (?) 2100-1800 BCE– Erlitou
• Shang Dynasty 1500-1122 BCE– Erligang
• Zhou Dynasty 1122-256 BCE– Western Zhou– Eastern Zhou
• Spring & Autumn Period• Warring States Period
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Before the Shang• 3 Sovereigns and 5 Emperors
– Credited with inventing agriculture, writing, government, flood control, silk culture, medicine
• Emperor Yu (last of 5)– Flood control– 9 sacred vessels– Founding of Xia Dynasty
• Controversies over archaeological evidence
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Shang Dynasty
• Emergence (and survival) of written records – oracle bones
• Bronze technology
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• Oracle Bone
“to ancestress Yi offer a fine pig, to ancestress Gui a boar, to ancestress Ding a pig, to ancestress Yi a pig.”
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• Turtle plastron oracle bone
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• Ox scapula oracle bone, late Shang, ca. 1200 BCE
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Oracle bone pit, Anyang
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Preface:] Crack making on gui-si day, Que divined:[Charge:] In the next ten days there will be no disaster.[Prognostication:] The king, reading the cracks, said, "There will be no harm; there will perhaps be the coming of alarming news."[Verification:] When it came to the fifth day, ding-you, there really was the the coming of alarming news from the west. Zhi Guo, reporting, said, "The Du Fang [a border people] are besieging in our eastern borders and have harmed two settlements." The Gong-fang also raided the fields of our western borders.
This translation follows (with slight modifications) David N. Keightley, Sources of Shang History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978), p. 44. The oracle bone being cited is Ching-hua 2.
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• Bronze Ding, Shang, ca. 13th C
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• Piece-Mold technique
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Jue
Ding
Gu
3 vessel shapes predominant in Shang.All had been created in clay in earlier periods.
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• Bronze Ding, Shang, ca. 13th C
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• Shang bronze gui, ca. 1600-1100 BCE
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• Bronze Gu (wine goblet), Shang dynasty, 13th C BCE
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• Longshan Neolithic
• “Eggshell” pottery
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• Closeup of tao tie on early Shang bronze
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• Spouted ritual wine vessel (guang), Shang dynasty, early Anyang period (ca. 1300–1050 B.C.),
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• Jue, Ritual Wine Vessel, Late Shang (12th C BCE)
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• Fang I (Ritual Wine Vessel)Shang, :late 13th-12th century
• 11 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
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• Shih tripod bronze ting vesselLate Shang dynasty (1300-1046 B.C.)
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Shang Dynasty Burials
• Fu Hao, died ca. 1200 BC
• A wife of Emperor Wu Ding
• A military general
• An oracle bone diviner
• Tomb discovered in 1976
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• Modern Statue representing Fu Hao, at the site of her tomb. Tomb is open for tourist visits
• YinXu is site of many oracle bone pits, last capital of Shang Dynasty
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• Burial Pit of Lady Fu Hao with Bronze vessels & human companions
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• Bronze Ding from Fu Hao’s Tomb (about 10 inches tall), rubbing of her posthumous name, inside ding.
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• Zun, or Wine Vessel, from Fu Hao’s Tomb (two images)
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• Decoration of zun from Fu Hao’s tomb,
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• Lidded container from Fu Hao’s tomb
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• Taotie
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Jade cong from Neolithic era
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• Drinking vessel, Fu Hao’s tomb, Shang, ca. 1200 BCE
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• Compare to Neolithic pottery vessel, ca.2000 bce
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• Ivory goblet inlaid with turquoise, Late Shang Period (c. 1200 B.C.) Fu Hao’s tomb
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Shang Dynasty Review
• Bronze Age: weaponry, ritual vessels
• Highly stratified, wealthy and powerful society
• The basis for modern Chinese writing
• vocab: taotie, afterlife, grave goods, ritual, divination, oracle, ancestor worship, Xia dynasty, gu, ding, jue, piece-mold casting, pictograph, thunder pattern