6/1/2023 0 Comments Ding vessel meaning![]() Wang Guowei thus refers to zun as a “great common name” for many different artifacts which were used in sacred rites. According to the recorded inscriptions taken from bronze vessels, the usage of the term zun (in its original version,?尊) is not dissimilar to that of yi, which are sacrificial vessels. What is generally called a zun vessel features a wide opening, a wide and round belly, a high ring foot and a wider body. Yili (Book of Etiquette and Cermonial): Shiguan Li (Capping rites for (the son of) a common officer) is cited as the source of Hayashi Minao’s reasoning. ![]() Hayashi believed this proved that gu vessels were used to hold rice wine (“li”) which was then ladled out and drunk. If used as a drinking vessel, would have been very easy for wine to spill out. ![]() By the later period of the same dynasty, the vessel had evolved into a container with an extremely wide opening and a smaller belly, which reduced its capacity significantly. Yet, the scholar Hayashi Minao has argued that the gu vessels used during the mid-period of the Yin dynasty do not feature a wide opening, which is what allowed it to be used as a goblet. This theory therefore defines the gu as a wine-drinking vessel, serving a similar function to a goblet. In An Introduction to Green Bronzes in the Yin-Shang Dynasty written by Rong Geng and Zhang Weichi, the authors claim that a jue was used when wine had to be warmed before drinking, while gu was used instead if heating wasn’t necessary. Opinions on the function of this item are widely divided.
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