Ⅰ. INTRODUCTIONBronze drum culture was well developed in China since more than 2500 years ago to 1828 A.D. Ancient drums are representatives of the historical culture of minority people living in southern China. The ...Ⅰ. INTRODUCTIONBronze drum culture was well developed in China since more than 2500 years ago to 1828 A.D. Ancient drums are representatives of the historical culture of minority people living in southern China. The early drums, Wanjiaba and Shizhaishan types unearthed in Yunnan have been investigated by lead isotopes in this note. The scientific basis for the lead method was described in Refs. [2, 3] and the isotopic ratios were corrected with the NBS-981 standard shown in Table 1. Based on the experimental results, we would like展开更多
Through a study of the pictography on the sign-engraved bronze plate from the 13th tomb of the Western Han at Shizhaishan in Jinning,Yunnan,the author re-explains the meanings of some engraved signs and puts forward t...Through a study of the pictography on the sign-engraved bronze plate from the 13th tomb of the Western Han at Shizhaishan in Jinning,Yunnan,the author re-explains the meanings of some engraved signs and puts forward the idea that in this pictography there exists a distinctive figure-value counting method with a certain figure-carrying system.The signs "■," "○" and "—" form the three-grade counting-sign system characteristic of the Dian Kingdom.The plate may have been a bronze back-plate of a Dian nobleman’s lacquered wooden quiver going back to over 2000 BP.展开更多
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文摘Ⅰ. INTRODUCTIONBronze drum culture was well developed in China since more than 2500 years ago to 1828 A.D. Ancient drums are representatives of the historical culture of minority people living in southern China. The early drums, Wanjiaba and Shizhaishan types unearthed in Yunnan have been investigated by lead isotopes in this note. The scientific basis for the lead method was described in Refs. [2, 3] and the isotopic ratios were corrected with the NBS-981 standard shown in Table 1. Based on the experimental results, we would like
文摘Through a study of the pictography on the sign-engraved bronze plate from the 13th tomb of the Western Han at Shizhaishan in Jinning,Yunnan,the author re-explains the meanings of some engraved signs and puts forward the idea that in this pictography there exists a distinctive figure-value counting method with a certain figure-carrying system.The signs "■," "○" and "—" form the three-grade counting-sign system characteristic of the Dian Kingdom.The plate may have been a bronze back-plate of a Dian nobleman’s lacquered wooden quiver going back to over 2000 BP.
