A/HI 271 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Xin Zhui, Liangzhu Culture, Song Dynasty
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Liangzhu culture, we do not know how it was used: pretty sure they can be classified as ritual arts, and it was found in a tomb which gives us an indication. Inner circular shape=sky or heavens, outer square shape=earth: later used in burial rituals, on outer part, there may be a pattern based on facial structure, jade disc or bi, c. 2500 bce, liangzhu. 24. 6: had fires underneath them (carbon on bottom of vessels) which tells us the food was warmed, crafted upside down (cast), they could carve into the mold and create negative spaces that would become positive spaces when cast. This is a distinctive technique as other cultures at this time were using lost-wax casting (they did start using this in the. It tells us that they developed this themselves without any outside influence. Though there were aspects that must have been mass produced.
