Now making a bronze vessel like our gui bowl is an extraordinarily complicated business.

这样的青铜器是最具代表性的中国古物之一，制作工艺极为繁复。

I'm in the Asia gallery of the British Museum, and I'm with a handsome bronze vessel called a gui.

我现在正身处大英博物馆的亚洲艺术走廊, 我手里是这件被称为簋的华丽青铜器。

It was only later that small bronze vessels appeared in northwestern China, and at the time of Longshan culture on the central plains.

而后在中国的西北，中原的龙山文化，相继出现铜器，然而都是小型物件。

During the Erlitou era, bronze vessels were being made, that were of a far greater size than anything seen anywhere else in the world.

到二里头时代，铜开始用来铸造较大的器物，这在世界其他地域的青铜文化中都没有出现过。

One of them would build a city that prospers to this day; the other would forge a bronze vessel that has survived a dozen dynasties.

他们一个建立了一座至今依旧繁荣的都城；一个铸造了一件记载荣光跨越十几个朝代不朽的青铜器。

A unique bronze artifact from the No 3 pit features a man carrying a bronze vessel known as a zun that has a round rim and a square body, said Ran Honglin, a researcher with Sichuan Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute.

四川省文物考古研究院研究员冉宏林表示，3号坑出土了一件独特的青铜器，形状为一铜人头顶一“尊”，即一件圆口方体的青铜容器。