Wu Huding of the Western Zhou Dynasty was unearthed in Chang'an County, Shaanxi
Archaeology and Cultural Relics, No. 03, 1998 Mu Xiaojun (Chang'an County Cultural Management Committee)
In 1992, a copper ding was excavated from the Heihe water diversion site in Chang'an County. After hearing the news, the county cultural management committee immediately sent someone to recover it. Ding exists in the office of the Chang'an County Cultural Management Committee.
First, the excavation situation
Wu Huding was unearthed in the south of Xujiazhai Village, Shendian Township, about 2 kilometers south of the county seat. Xujiazhai Village is west of Shenheyuan, east of Shaolingyuan, the Dihe River comes from the south, in the south of the village and flows west. The Heihe River diversion project passes through it to the south. Wu Huding was bulldozered at the construction site, the ring was seriously broken, and the excavation situation is unknown.
Second, the shape of the utensils
Wu Huding is a standing ear, a small flat edge, a hemispherical deep abdomen, and hoofed feet. The lower edge of the mouth is decorated with a stolen band (back cover). The plagiarism is a deformed phoenix pattern, with an eye in the middle and a string pattern lined under it (Figure 1). There are three sets of strings between the three feet of the base of the abdomen, two in each group. Dingtong height 41, caliber 40, ear height 7.9, ear width 9.5, foot height 18, foot diameter 4, wall thickness 0.5 cm. Total weight 15.4 kg.
Ding yi foot deficient, but in the early years, it was welded tonic, and when the inscription was cleaned, its welded copper sheet still existed. There is a fracture under the mouth edge, which totals 24 cm in length. There is a thick layer of smoke at the bottom of the ding, and there are also traces of soot at the mouth and ornamentation, indicating that the ding was once used as a practical device.
3. Inscriptions
In 1997, when the warehouse cleared the cultural relics and removed the rust, the inscription inside it was found. The inscription is on the inner wall of the abdomen (Fig. 2), totaling 16 lines, each line of 10 to 11 words, a total of 164 words. The text can basically be interpreted and read, and is now as follows according to the original line:
Falcon (惟) ten and (have) eight years and ten again
(There is) March both
Shengba Bingjiao, Wang Cai (in) Zhou KangGong wandering
(Yi) Gong, Kou □ Right Wu Hu, Wang Ling (命)
Good (meal) husband
Feng Sheng, Ship (Division) Gong Shu, Ship (Shen) Thorn (Li) Wang Ling (命), □ Wu Yu (?) Old Frontier,
Fu Xiaocheng., Early (厥) Beiqi Hanren Wo Jie.Character "厥〉 Dongji Guanren (?) Lianzhi. Fist "tired) Nan do bi ren take Aya. Niu Xi Jikou concubine 楮牛 (M) 4 (club) trail
bear. Makeup, Bai Chong (地) 旳 (芮) 勧 "Si" on the (绽) Temple
C il, Hao Cheng Rub (Ben) Read (Sorry} Shou, Heaven (Zi) Hugh, Bin
Fu DengSheng Zhang (璋), Horses, Bin Bai (Si) Shang (Zuo) Bao
Inspection chapter "韋), Birds, Binnei (Rui) illusion
"Can) go up (jia) temple pro
Yin Youshou (?) Zhixi 'Jing Fu) (.□□□) Tiger Collision "Bai" Dirty (稽} Shou, dare to the lion (Yang) Fu Yu not "No) Willing * Hugh, with Zha "Zuo) Yuanzhi and, Zu), Kao Zhan Lu Cheng, his descendants Yongbao.
Old Frontier", and recorded the boundaries of the four to. "WuHu's old xinjiang", that is, east of Hojing, between Bi, Guan, Han and other areas, that is, the northwest of present-day Chang'an County and the western suburbs of Xi'an.
Fourth, the era of Wu Huding
Wu Huding's shape and ornamentation are characteristic of the late Western Zhou Dynasty. The first sentence of the inscription reads, "However, in the tenth and eighth years and three months of the tenth and eighth years, the king was born in the Zhou Kang Palace", very, Mr. Tang Lan interpreted yi in the "Shang You Congding", that is, referring to the king of Zhou Yi, so the Zhou Kang Palace is the temple of the King of Yi. It is also mentioned in the inscription, 'The King of Shen La's Order", the King of Lai refers to the King of Zhou Li, and the only person who can reaffirm the order of the King of Li is King Xuan. After King Xuan, King You reigned for less than eighteen years, and king Ping had already moved east, so Wu Huding was the time instrument of King Xuan. This undoubtedly provides a reliable standard for the Western Zhou Bronze Ware Discontinuity Problem, and provides important information for the calculation of the Western Zhou Calendar.
The interpretation of this inscription has been guided and helped by Mr. Li Xueqin, and I would like to express my gratitude.
Wu Huding Inscription
On January 17, 1998, we gave the newly discovered Wu Huding inscription rubbings to Mr. Li Xueqin, when the rust removal work had not yet ended, and the rubbing was naturally not clear enough. Within a day, Mr. Li handed us the "First Interpretation of Wu Huding". Now the ding has been descaled. Yesterday, Li Zizhi, Wang Hui, Zhang Maoming, and Cao Wei had jointly examined Dingming and proved that there was no lack of words. At the behest of Mr. Lee, the following is the following. Individual doubtful zigzag plus. and try to add punctuation: