The Si Mu Wu Ding was used by the ancients to offer sacrifices to their ancestors. The Ding was a utensil for cooking food in ancient times. How heavy it was, it was used to present cooked meat or other delicacies to ancestors during sacrifices or ceremonies in ancient times, so it gradually evolved into a sacrificial utensil.

Wu Ding, the queen mother of Shang Dynasty, is 133 cm high, 11 cm long and 79 cm wide and weighs 832.84 kg. The device has thick ears and folded edges, and its abdomen is rectangular, and it is supported by four pillars. The four corners of the abdomen, the middle of the upper and lower edges and the upper part of the foot are all provided with leaf edges.

In Yun Leiwen, the ear of the instrument is decorated with a row of embossed fish patterns, the outer side of the ear is decorated with embossed Shuang Hu's cannibal head pattern, the abdomen is decorated with gluttony patterns, the upper part of the column foot is decorated with embossed gluttony patterns, and the lower part is decorated with two-week convex chord patterns.

Value of cultural relics

Wu Ding, the stepmother of Shang Dynasty, is the heaviest bronze ware known in ancient China. Wu Ding, the queen mother of Shang Dynasty, has a series of complicated technical problems in the process of molding clay molds, turning over pottery models and pouring them together.

The casting of Wu Ding, the queen mother of Shang Dynasty, fully shows that the bronze casting in the late Shang Dynasty is not only large in scale, but also well-organized and meticulous in division of labor, which is enough to represent the highly developed bronze culture of Shang Dynasty.