Ding(vessel) - Kanae

…It is a pot-shaped vessel placed on three solid legs. Earthenware appeared during the Longshan culture in the late Neolithic period, and bronze vessels were produced from the mid-Yang period onwards. Both vessels were used until the Han period. Only from the mid-Yang period to the early Western Zhou period was there a rectangular box-shaped vessel called a square ding, with four hollow legs, some of which were over one meter tall. All bronze dings had a pair of ears, and were carried by passing them through a crosspiece called a gen or by hanging them on a hook called a yoku. …

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…3本の中実の足の上になべ形の容器をのせた形をしていて，新石器時代後期の竜山文化期に土製のものが現れ，殷代中期ころから青銅製のものがつくられ，ともに漢代まで併せ使用された。殷代中期から西周代前期にかけての時期だけに方鼎という，長方形の箱状の器に中空の4本足をつけたものがあり，高さが1m以上のものもある。青銅製の鼎にはすべて1対の耳があり，鉉（げん）といわれる横木を通したり，（よく）という鉤で引っかけたりして持ち運んだ。…

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