The Collection Of Maoguo Brone Inscriptions’ Explanation

Maoguo was a vassals in Zhou Dynasty, and it’s initial king was the son of kingwen. The Dukedom of Mao was government official from generation to generation,andmade a great contribution to the development and stability of the Zhou dynasty.Mao wasa important vassals in Zhou Dynasty,but on the Spring and Autumn Period with thedecline of the Zhou Dynasty, its also decline.in516BC Maobo march on towards Chustate,marked the fall of the Maoguo.With it’s falling MaoGuo in the history of literaturealso disappeared gradually.Maoguo bronzes unearthed from the Song Dynasty, which has continued to Maoguo bronzes unearthed,particularly impressive was undoubtedly was the Maogongtripod’s unearthed in the Daoguang period (道光年间)from the Qishan county(岐山县)of Shanxi（陕西）province.Since the Maoguo bronze unearthed, scholars constantlystudy them, and solved many academic issues related to Maoguo.For the unearthedMaoGuo bronze inscriptions study,in the past many scholars just studied singleinscriptions words and the time which bronze belongs to, very few people made acomprehensive and systematic collation of Mao Guoqing bronzes unearthed.Based onthis,this paper make a comprehensive collation of excavated Maoguo bronzes,andaccording to sort out of the material combination the literature handed down fromancient times made a useful discussion about the history of Maoguo.This paper consists of three parts: the first part is an introduction, mainly on topicsof significance in this article, research methods,current research status and other aspectsof the Maoguo history research, make the scholars have a preliminary understanding ofthe unearthed MaoGuo bronze and the status of Maoguo history research.The second part is the collect explanation of Maoguo bronze inscriptions andbronze inscriptions related to Maoguo.This part contains three sections, the first sectiongive a detailed account of unearthed MaoGuo bronze’s time, number, unearthed locationto make scholars full use of it. The second section is the collection of unearthed Maoguo bronze inscriptions’ explanation, and made a detail discussion about the problemsrelated to the inscriptions involved. For some of the remaining controversial issues,according to the said, under the guidance of the tutor, do the corresponding discussion.The third section is the collection of not unearthed bronze inscriptions of MaoGuo butrelated to Maoguo inscriptions’ explanation, by these inscriptions, and combined withrecords of documents related to the Maoguo, we have a better understanding of Maoguoin the Zhou dynasty social status.The third part is according to the sort out MaoGuo unearthed documents materialfrom the second part, and combined with inherited documents, do some research aboutthe MaoGuo status in the Zhou dynasty, and preliminary drawing the outline ofMaoGuo pedigree chart.