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Ding brought people think of first is the political power and state, Ding can be said to be a symbol of Chinese culture, with extremely high.
Bank of great prosperity in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, until the Han Dynasty. In the heyday of the times of slavery, to be used as "Do not up and down, or low-ming", a level indicating the identity of an important ritual. (Literature: "Jiuding the Son of Heaven, the seven leaders ding, ding five doctors, or one million people Sanding ding." Also contains "Jiuding cast, as Kyushu.") (Idioms and "have kept their promises ahead Zhongyuan, the three pillars" ) .
The equivalent of pot
Ding's common for the shape of a round belly, two ears, three feet, were pots, cup-shaped, there was a small amount of fighting the four-foot-FANG Ding. Generally more thick.
People in the value of revered ding, often forget its original purpose, in fact, it is a straw, used for sacrificial ceremony Shing fish or meat, such as pigs and cattle food, which is equivalent to the current pot.
Religious mother
E-ting his mother Secretary intra-abdominal wall inscriptions are "mother Division E," named after the words, Shang Wang is a religious mother (E 000) to commemorate the artifacts.
The Legend of experience
Secretary for e-ting is the mother of all so far unearthed the largest ding most, it is still a legendary experience. In March 1939, it was unearthed in Henan Anyang Ding Hou military attache Chuang Wu Yuyao home village of farmland as a result of too much too heavy tripod, difficulty moving, people tried to saw large tripod, and then out, but only saw a foot, Saw it constantly, then quietly buried up to Ding. Later, the news leaked, the Japanese failed to search, it will offer 700,000 yen coins to buy the local people cleverly sent another ding, ding left to count.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in June 1946, re-ting were unearthed, but has lost one ear (later replaced), the first store in Anyang County. In the same year by the end of October, when the Chairman of the Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek's birthday 60, the local garrison will be as big Ding Shou Li, a car arrived in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek made available to the instructions of the Central Museum of the preparatory office of preservation, the value of the summer of 1948, the ding on public display for the first time, Chiang Kai-shek Ding to visit in person and in pictures before, showing a high degree of attention. Later, the Nationalist government to Taiwan wanted to ding this, the end result is too difficult to give up the idea of nation-building, Ding kept in the Nanjing Museum, the Museum of Chinese History should be made available in 1959, has now become Zhenguanzhibao. Members.