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Song Gui (guǐ), now in the Shandong Museum, is one of the treasures of the top ten town halls of Shanbo.
Gui is a bronze or pottery used to hold food in ancient times, and it is also an important ceremonial vessel. When used as a ceremonial vessel, it is usually used in combination with an even number and an odd number of dings, such as the Heavenly Son's use of nine dings and eight gui, the princes' seven dings and six gui, and so on.
The song in the Shandong Museum is named after a person named "Song" by an official during the Western Zhou Dynasty. Song Gui, Song Pot, Song Ding and called "Three Odes", of which there are six groups of song gui with complete covers, and there are two other gui lids; there are two song pots, the lid is hidden in the National Museum, and the covered one is hidden in the National Palace Museum in Taipei; Song Ding has a total of three pieces, which are stored in the Shanghai Museum, the National Palace Museum and the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
Ode, three-legged and two-eared. In terms of decoration, the mouth and lid of the vessel are decorated with animal order interlocking patterns, which are derived from a curly dragon pattern, mainly prevalent in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty, and were also one of the main ornaments on bronzes at that time. The abdomen and the lid are decorated with groove-like ornaments, which were very popular from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period. Inside the catcher at the top of the canopy, the dragon pattern is decorated with a dragon pattern, and the circle foot is decorated with a hanging scale pattern.
The inscription is the same as the inscription, each casting 15 lines and 152 words, the inscription is to the effect that the King of Zhou took the throne in the capital, Zai Hong accompanied Song to stand in the middle court to accept the book of destiny, and at the same time of appointment, the King of Zhou rewarded the praise with many items. Song first accepted the Book of Destiny, then withdrew from the court, and then returned to present JinZhang to the King of Zhou. The inscriptions completely reflect the western Zhou royal court's system of appointing officials.
The odes of the Shandong Museum are not only of good quality, but also have an orderly inheritance.
The inheritance of the Songgui in the Shandong Museum can be traced back to Liu Xihai, who was born in zhucheng, Shandong Province, in the Liu family, that is, the Liu Tongxun and Liu Yong families. Liu Xihai was Liu Yong's grandnephew, and it is also said that his father passed on to Liu Yong. In short, Liu Xihai was born in a family of officials and eunuchs, with a good life and family roots.
In the nineteenth year of Qing Jiaqing (1814), Liu Xihai, who was twenty-one years old at the time, bought it in Beijing, which is considered to be his early collection. Liu Xihai served as an official for more than twenty years, mostly in local areas, but he himself had a greater preference for books, gold stones, and coins.
From ancient times to the present, the collection needs to have strong financial support, since Liu Xihai, the Zhucheng Liu family has never been an official prominent, and thereafter the praises have been attributed to Li Zongdai's collection.
Li Zongdai was a "foreign affairs faction" at that time, successively in Pingdu and Zhaoyuan
Opening a gold mining factory, Li Zongdai himself was also a collector at that time, and then the gold mine was not well managed, and Song Gui transferred it to Ding Shuzhen.
Ding Shuzhen was a famous collector at that time, known as "Ding Million", and was also the nickname of the Ding family at that time. At that time, the Ding family was a pawnshop family, and it was the richest man in Shandong, with assets equivalent to 54 million silver taels, and Song Gui did not rule out that it was pawned to the Ding family.
Although the Ding family was a pawnshop family, it was also an official and a businessman, and after the decline of the Ding family, the brothers separated the family and hid the ware cover.
In the 1940s, the utensils were collected by the Huangxian Cultural Management Branch of the Jiaodong Antiquities Management Committee, and later collected by the Shandong Provincial Museum. In the 1950s, Ms. Zhang Xiulin, a descendant of the Ding clan, donated the cover to the Shandong Provincial Museum, and the lid was separated for 44 years.