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Discovery 05/06/2014 Hou Zeng Yizun Plate

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The main content of this program: In 1978, after the discovery of Zun Pan, the best bronze ware known as Zun Pan, by Marquis Yi of Zeng, experts in the casting industry identified that the hollow pattern above it was cast by the wax losing method, thus rewriting the history of bronze casting in China. However, some scholars have a dispute about the casting process of the decorative pattern, and believe that the pattern casting method is adopted. Tan Derui, a bronze technology research expert, ended the academic debate after careful research, field modern restoration work and discovery of burning method, and confirmed that the casting process of Marquis Yi Zunpan was wax loss method. (Discovery 05/06/2014)

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