To ancient people, Ding cauldrons were symbols of power and status.
Some say there are actually five cauldrons to include Nanchang in Jiangxi and Yichang also in Hubei.
Further west still was Bumpass Hell, an inferno of bubbling, sulphurous mud and water, with plumes of steam rising up through the delicate crust surrounding the cauldrons.
Of all the traditional cauldrons (ding) since the Shang Dynasty, only rectangular cauldrons, such as the famous Simuwu tetrapod of the Shang Dynasty, have flat bottoms.
There was not a sound but the grumbling of the boiling water in the cauldrons and pans.
Many cauldrons seem to be at least partially magical.
He describes "disjointed fragments" of cows and sheep, boiled whole in cauldrons, being served to guests in a colossal mansion on the Caspian Sea.
They inhaled toxic dust and vapours as the material seethed in primitive cauldrons to extract the mercury.
Immediately, a dead silence descended on the workshop, except for the faint gurgling of boiling water in the cauldrons and pans.
Self-stirring, collapsable cauldrons are sold in Diagon Alley[/ COLOR], for example( SS5).
