A Chinese tripod bowl with solid legs (compare li). The dingis almost unknown at Yangshao sites but is ubiquitous in pottery of the east-coast Neolithic and of the Henan Longshan culture (sccLongshan, Hemudu). It was made in both pottery and bronze versions throughout the Chinese Bronze Age (see RITUAL VESSELS).
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied