"It has not been confirmed whether the Bronze Age in China started in Yin Dynasty. ……While the end of the period is very clear, that is the Zhou and Qin Dynasty. "(by Guo Mo-ruo in " Bronze Age "). During ChunQiu and ZhanGuo period, lacquered ware developed rapidly, while pottery was in to transition period to porcelain and smelt iron technology was only used in the primitive agricultural apparatus during this time, and these objective factors caused lacquered ware to be the main utensil for daily use. This thesis emphasizes on the inherent reasons why the bronzy ware developed greatly during ZhanGuo period, in order to find out objective factors of lacquered ware's replacing the bronzy ware and reasons why the bronze utensil declines, and provides analysis and summary. |