Geometric Exploration Into The Design Of China’s Ancient Bronze Ware Containers

During the long historic course, China’s ancient bronze containers excel in both their models, colors and functions, which have exerted a great influence on Chinese craft history. This paper collects and summarizes the produce ideas and etiquette testimonies, which come from all sub thoughts in ancient times in China or etiquette writings. To take certain China’s representative ancient bronze containers as examples, based on the geometry principle, tries to analyze their modeling characteristics so as to summarize their design rules and explore their significance on the modern container design.