The bronze dragon is a rather important Chinese bronze sculpture

Shang and Zhou bronze reliefs from the material according to differences in the level line, and the resulting diversity of the art of handling the following types of forms. A: high relief high relief refers to relief from the bottom surface of the object from the line thickness is relatively large, small and close to the compressed size bronze doors. This bronze sculpture has been regarded as an important object to study economic system during the Western Zhou dynasty. Art of the Shang and Zhou bronze relief sculpture in the round of the basic conditions in which the sculpture is characterized by high surface processes, surface structure, high volume close to the natural objects with obvious irregular scattered, sometimes in order to enhance the effect of size, from the material line can also adduction, similar to the pre-attached to the bottom half of sculpture in the round, full size suitable for the performance of momentum majestic form.

The use of the Shang and Zhou bronze high relief technique is the most famous Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan people came face dragon Yu, as the main form of carving the human face of high relief He covers art treatment, side view from the property line of the high relief of the the overall thickness of the solid faces of the people fifths of the volume of similar work in high relief on the Shang and Zhou bronze objects appear in more small accessories. That bronze statue is unearthed in Renjia Village, Famen Temple, Fufeng Town, Shanxi Province.  B: bas-relief bas-relief is the main part of the relief art, artistic features the most relief. It uses object strongly compress the thickness of the method, the full size, complex structure, processing through the art of compression on the bottom to the very low level, from the material line is very low, with a smooth ease, rich and dramatic light and dark aesthetic.

In the Shang and Zhou bronze bas-relief on the use everywhere, combined with the shape close to the most perfect type of bronze relief, bas-relief works, such as the typical unearthed in Yin Ruins Yue Fu Hao, a complete outline of the image of two tigers side, from the material line is low compression to seize the head, trunk, side of the two limbs of a few large volume structure, bone is clear, solid head, abdomen full, strong of limb volume by pressure shown by a thin, muscular and rich textures, from the material line outline is clear. Now, the chinese bronze sculpture is in the possession of Shanghai Museum. There are excellent bas-relief carving of the Shang and Zhou bronze works the large number of famous women have a good side even Yi, Asia site wine container, travel disk, cattle side tripod and so on. C: thin thin meat meat relief embossed shape is very difficult.

It is thinner than the bas-relief, the volume structure compressed more strongly, from the complex 2, basic commercial art bronze relief status line disappeared, emerged only in the thin flat board the size of hidden structure of ups and downs, subtle and sensual strong volume change, showing the shape of delicate light, hidden vitality of life emerged. The bronze dragon is a rather important Chinese bronze sculpture in Western Zhou Dynasty. From Anyang Yin Ruins in Asia Fu Hao Zhou Ding and Ding, ding of the abdomen in carving a circle around the outside of all the meat in thin relief shape of cicadas, cicadas in the image slightly hidden from the bottom, soft and thin, the thickness can only be from the side from the bottom to see a high volume, although only a small volume of outstanding, flat hierarchy can be better seen carving out a significant effect of light and shadows.