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What Do Ceramic Pots Reveal About Daily Life in the Shang Dynasty? - Daily Life and Ancestor Veneration in Late Shang Households | Sleepy Facts About History
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When we think of the Shang dynasty, we usually picture the magnificent bronze vessels preserved in museum cases or the king reading political fortunes in cracked oracle bones. But this episode begins somewhere much more ordinary: a packed-earth house in the Yellow River valley around 1200 BCE, where a woman grinds millet on a flat stone while smoke drifts from the hearth. The most routine domestic chores in the ancient world were simultaneously acts of spiritual maintenance. Growing grain…
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