DING
September 8th 2008 01:30
DING
Chinese Antiquity
So what'a a DING Pronounced with the third tone its Radical 206 in the traditional system and written with 13 strokes. You can generate one using the code b9f03 or e9bc8e
If you've studied Chinese art you wil have noticed many of the oldest forms have tripod legs but not all tripods are DING. A ding usually has three legs sometiems four and I have seen some tripods and other vessels labelled ding when they are not but the CLASSIC DING has two loops or handles! They were originally used as clay or bronze cooking vessels cauldrons and you may sometimes see smaller reproductions filled with sand used in Chinese temples to place smouldering incense sticks.
There was a trend during the Ching dynasty for reproducing antiquity Ding both for the fakes trade and as authentic copies for scholars. If you see one thats done in jade its Ching or modern!
The classics bronze DING dates to the Shang or Chou dynasties.
See the image above again!
Michael Sullivan's book The Arts of China (I'm citing page numbers from my personal copy the 1977 edition) has pictures and more info on pages 33-38 and p. 54 on ding and other ceramic and bronze vessels.
Known as DING in pinyin and ting 3 in Wades Giles its also ding in Cantonese TEI and kanae in Japanese and dinh (a crossed d) in Viet. The Hokkien dialects refer to it as a tia or tiang or teng. The Old Chinese pronounciation was probably deng or tieng or both?
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