A Study On Calligraphy Art On Bronze Inscription Of Shang And Zhou Dynasties

Shang and Zhou period was a great prosperity of Bronze Age in ancient Chinese. Bronze closely linked with the culture form of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, especially the sacrifice ware. The inscription on bronze was inspissation of the culture in Shang and Zhou Dynasties. The writer of these inscriptions should belong to augur and shamanize group. In today's opinion, these inscriptions are artistic. The inscriptions directly inherited from shells. And we can see that people started to consciously pursuit aesthetic characteristics of words. The bronze inscriptions artistic features in West and East Zhou Dynasties were more intense and diversification and the evolution of inscriptions chirography art were more obvious than Shang Dynasty. Research on the art of calligraphy of Shang inscriptions can enrich the evolution theory of inscriptions chirography and further enrich the research of calligraphy history of Shang and Zhou Dynasties.The paper mainly studies calligraphy art characteristics of bronze inscriptions at different times and adopts the methods of illustration, analysis and comparison to expound calligraphy art on bronze inscription of Shang, West and East Zhou dynasties.The paper has five chapters. The first chapter introduces the status and function of the bronze inscription in Shang and Zhou society. The second chapter discusses the art of calligraphy of the Shang bronze inscriptions, researches it combining with Shang society's actuality and describes calligraphy features of inscription on the SiMuWu, XiaoChenYuZun, four SiBiQiYou, Cover of XiaoZiSheng and Cover of ZaiFuGui.res. The third chapter explores the calligraphy art of inscription in the West and East Zhou Dynasties. The inscription of West Zhou Dynasty divided into early, middle, late three periods. Early inscriptions mainly described war exploits. The chirography characteristics were grand and vigorous, dignified and simple; Medium-term was elegance, calm and mellow, the rules became clear increasingly. Late inscriptions mostly were voluminous. The grapheme was flat-square, beautiful and elegant. The calligraphy art inscriptions of East Zhou divided into Qi, Chu, Qin, Three Jin, Yan, WuYue, and ZhongShan groups according to regions. East Zhou bronze inscriptions had certain unified trend, horizontal and vertical lines, well-balanced, orderly arrangement. The fourth chapter discusses the relationship between the aesthetic and religious and inscriptions in Shang and Zhou society and expounds the condition of the aesthetic and religious in Shang and Zhou society. The fifth chapter discusses the influences of calligraphy art on bronze inscription, and thinks that offspring studying bronze inscriptions of Shang and Zhou make calligraphy enter a new stage.