the erlitou museum's director, zhao xiaojun, has spent years studying early chinese bronzes.time you spend with it, it's very, very elegant. it has these three artily slender, pointed legs, almost like a spider's legs, which it's resting upon, and this trim waist flaring up to the top. if you look from above, and then around the waist, it's like a belt there is something feminine about the whole form, something very beautiful. it looks like maybe a delicate dancer. this precious object was probably used during rituals for serving wine to the gods. such once—glittering vessels offer a glimpse are yielding new discoveries every day. hello! nice to meet you. hey. good to meet you, too. at erlitou, zhao haitao. those lines — what are they? it's even possible that erlitou was the capital but everything you've described it feels like it's on a par with the first true dynasty of ancient china. 0ne object discovered inside a royal tomb at erlitou is so special that it's been brought all the way this isjust pure magic. it's like a mirage that's emerging somehow from the mists of time.