Da Ke Ding

[@domenicbernard4075]

The history is so rich and the piece was remarkable for its day, so much so that it brought literal tears to my eyes.

[@infesta7]

Great to see you putting out superb videos more recently!

[@baerkooner553]

Impressed by Dr. Chiem' s in-depth explanation. Isn't it amazing that Chinese characters of 3000 years ago can be read by untrained eyes of today? Good or bad, A culture didn't change much in the last two millenniums.

[@sunjh2004]

Just as an FYI: No, these characters cannot be read by untrained eyes. Probably only one or two characters remained consistent. Actually, it took some time (quite a few decades) for the scholars to translate these words into modern Chinese.

[@alexlo7708]

@@sunjh2004 They have dictionary to compare ancient Zhou script since Han dynasty. So it was not tedious job in find the meaning.

[@infoworld7706]

@@sunjh2004 of course not if you refer to the script in the bronze Ding in this video, it is not the early script in the oracle bone which needs decipher.

[@thomaspensinger8834]

Lovely!

[@schang8964]

大克鼎銘文內容分為兩段：首段記載了克對其祖父師華父的讚譽，因其功績，周王任命其孫克擔任膳夫，負責出傳王命；次段記載了周天子對克官職的冊命和賞賜，克接受任命和賞賜，於是鑄造此鼎歌頌周天子的美德，同時祭祀祖父的在天之靈。

[@QueenJaneway]

My favorite part of Chinese art history!

[@k3tarnin]

Bronze age China is impressive!

[@Sasha0927]

It's taking so much longer for me to scroll to unwatched videos! This is bronze as I'd expect it, rather than large NY buildings made from it. I loved hearing more about the motifs and am curious what degree of certainty we have when identifying them. It must've been such a weight on the Emperor to try to appease the divine beings at risk of losing their divine mandate - not jealous! 290 characters! 😰 I hope that's the total number of characters rather than the count of unique characters, lol. It was nice seeing the two speakers in this video. ❤❤

[@natureaiaiai880]

amazing

[@blaisepotvien2785]

It’s crazy how old Chinese history is

[@AetherNoble]

Am I incorrect in thinking these ritual bronzes didn’t have a patina when they were used, and were a beautiful shiny bronze colour in life?

[@kentwang44]

The Chinese character for ding 鼎 looks like a ding

[@nicholasjohns5064]

Interesting video. By the way, does anybody know what the intro music is?

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Its old rights free music that apple used to provide via garage band.

[@nicholasjohns5064]

Ah right, I thought I recognised it from a jazz song, I must be wrong then haha. Thanks for the reply.

[@juner92]

Un sorprendente parecido estilístico a la cultura Chavín, de Perú.

[@smarthistory-art-history]

We will be adding a video about a Cupesnique bottle soon.

[@juner92]

Excellent! will be the famous huaco of "contortionist"?...

[@smarthistory-art-history]

Feline-Head Bottle at the Met in New York: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5vSeoZqe5V2l5o