{"id":47303,"date":"2022-08-10T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/metal-making-recipes-ancient-chinese-text-kaogong-ji"},"modified":"2022-08-10T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T09:00:47","slug":"researchers-decode-metal-making-recipes-in-ancient-chinese-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47303","title":{"rendered":"Researchers decode metal-making recipes in ancient Chinese text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study identifies mystery elements in <em>Kaogong ji<\/em>, shedding light on how early bronzes were produced<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have deciphered enigmatic recipes for metal-making contained in an ancient Chinese text, revealing unexpected complexity in the art at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Six chemical formulas are given in a Chinese text from 300BC known as the <em>Kaogong ji.<\/em> The manuscript, known as The World\u2019s Oldest Encyclopedia of Technologies, forms part of a detailed archive of early imperial rule, which archeologists have been trying to decode since the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/10\/metal-making-recipes-ancient-chinese-text-kaogong-ji\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study identifies mystery elements in Kaogong ji, shedding light on how early bronzes were producedResearchers have deciphered enigmatic recipes for metal-making contained in an ancient Chinese text, revealing unexpected complexity in the art at the tim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,71,514,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-culture","category-heritage","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47304,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47303\/revisions\/47304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}