In 2003, a large site covering an area of 30 thousand sq meters was discovered at the western end of Yin Xu. It’s believed to be the venue where bronze wares used to be casted and the most-famous Si Mu Wu Rectangle Ding might have been produced there.
More than oracle bones and bronze wares, a number of royal tombs and palaces, prototypes of later Chinese architecture, have also been unearthed at the site, including the Palace and Royal Ancestral Shrines Area, with more than 80 house foundations, and the only tomb of a member of the royal family of the Shang Dynasty to have remained intact, the Tomb of Fu Hao. The large number and superb craftsmanship of the burial accessories found there bear testimony to the advanced level of Shang crafts industry.
By Dong Jirong
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