Apple QuickTime Audio | 1998-10-28 | 10.1 MB | 1 channel | 22,050 sample rate | 4 minutes, 1 second
Transcription: Food vessels and cooking utensils occupied a focal position in the art of the early Chinese. This earthenware gui has bulbous hollow legs that provide a maximum heat absorbing area and thus illustrate the scientific thinking of the Neolithic age. During the Shang and Zhou dynasties, bronze vessels were the valued possessions of Chinese aristocratic nobility. They had ding tripods for boiling, two part yen for steaming, and gui vessels for holding food Wine vessels were the most numerous of all. For storing wine there was a zhún, for decanting wine the hè, for warming wine the zhúy, and for dri ...
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