Although every country has a history, there are not many people who can have us for thousands of years, and in these long rivers of history, we also have the unique cultural products of each era, which have become the tools for modern people to study the living culture of that year. But because in modern times we have experienced a period of turmoil, so many cultural relics are scattered everywhere, there are many tragic hands, in fact, the ones that can be seen in museums now are already relatively lucky. For example, the one we are going to talk about today, it was saved at the moment before it was destroyed.
In the 1950s, in a small village in Rehe Province, a farmer named Tang Yongxing found an anomaly while working, he felt that there was something hard underground, so he carefully dug out, and this digging did not matter, and actually dug out 16 bronzes. In fact, the people's awareness of cultural relics began in the seventies and eighties, so in those years, everyone did not think that this was a good thing, they thought it was a pile of broken copper and rotten iron, and the country was in the construction period at that time, they sold these bronzes to the supply and marketing cooperatives, so that they melted to support the country.
The formalities were also completed, Tang Yongxing picked up a piece and looked at it, it turned out that there was actually a word on this "broken copper and rotten iron", he vaguely felt that something was wrong, so he took this thing to find the school's teachers, although they did not know what it was, but it seemed to be a bit similar to the Zhou Dynasty cultural relics mentioned in the history books, so they quickly ran to the supply and marketing cooperatives to prepare to void the contract signed before, and the sixteen bronzes were saved at the last moment of entering the furnace! Later, people figured out the origin of these things, and the most fortunate thing about them was the Western Zhou's Piece of Hou Lu.
This artifact is covered with cloud thunder patterns and wind patterns, which looks simple and atmospheric. In ancient times, the utensils were more exquisite, and different uses were called differently, just like this Piece of Lu hou, which was called "Lu", indicating that it was a tool for holding water. Of course, the identification of him is determined by the five words engraved on the inner wall: 匽侯作饙盂. The Marquis of Yan refers to the Monarch of the State of Yan during the Western Zhou Dynasty, indicating that this cultural relic was still used by the Monarch before, and in addition, from the perspective of time, the change in the title of the Monarch of the State of Yan was after the Duke of Qi Huan supported the Duke of Yanzhuang to regain the Duke, so it did come from the Western Zhou.
In addition, the word "饙" means cooked rice, that is to say, the monarch used this thing mainly to serve rice, which broke everyone's understanding of "盂" before, but in fact, this naming may also be distinguished from the shape of the vessel, and the specific use still varies from person to person, so it cannot be conclusive. Now that this relic has been collected in the National Museum, it is not easy to snatch such a national treasure from the furnace!