What is the difference in etiquette between the three-legged tripod and the four-legged tripod, the representative of bronze culture?

The difference between tripod and tripod;

1, with different forms. Three-legged tripod is generally round tripod; Four-legged tripod is generally a square tripod with four feet.

2. The attributes are different. The ancients often used three-legged tripod to represent yang; Use a four-legged tripod to represent yin.

3. Different uses. Three-legged tripod is often used to worship heaven; Four-legged tripod is used to worship the ground.

Extended data:

Ding is the representative of bronze culture in China. In ancient times, the tripod was regarded as a heavy weapon for the founding of the country and a symbol of state and power. China people still have the consciousness of tripod worship, and the word "tripod" has been endowed with extended meanings such as "noble", "noble" and "grand".

Ding is the witness of civilization and the carrier of culture. According to the legend of Zhu Yu Jiu Ding, it can be inferred that China had bronze smelting and casting technology as early as 4000 years ago; The bronze ding of Shang Dynasty unearthed underground proved conclusively that Shang Dynasty in China was a highly developed bronze age. Da, Da and Mao He unearthed in the Qing Dynasty are all famous bronzes in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The inscriptions on bronze wares such as Ding recorded the laws and regulations of Shang and Zhou Dynasties and historical facts such as conferring titles, offering sacrifices and conquering. And handed down the seal script of the Western Zhou Dynasty to later generations, forming a bronze calligraphy art with high aesthetic value. Ding is therefore more valuable and becomes a more important historical relic than other bronzes.

Li Zehou, an aesthetician, believes that Chinese bronzes, with their unique tripod as the core, are thick and solid, with hideous and mysterious patterns and deep carvings, and are the most aesthetic bronze works in the mature period of China bronze art.

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