The Chinese government demanded the sale of the rare water vessel should not go ahead A rare sacred Chinese bronze water vessel made between 2,200 and 3,600 years ago has been sold despite ...

Archaeologists in China have brewed distilled wine in a replica of a 2,000-year-old bronze vessel unearthed from ... according the ancient Chinese medical book Bencao Gangmu, or the Compendium ...

Chinese Zhou ritual vessel ... on Chinese bronze: "The first dynasties of China, the Shang and the Zhou, made large numbers of fine bronze containers for food, for alcohol, for water, and used ...