"Turtle" must be very familiar to everyone, its real name is turtle turtle, it is the oldest living reptile, the origin of the turtle is still a mystery, the earliest fossil is the South African Permian ancient turtle, triassic period, the original turtle has a turtle shape.
When the turtle entered the civilized society, it became a representative of longevity, so many people will give turtles, but most of this turtle is some collections, speaking of collections, in 2003, the National Museum of China collected a "turtle" with 4 arrows on its back.
This is an old farmer fishing in the river, accidentally pulled on a large turtle, a closer look, found that it is not a real turtle but an "iron turtle", at that time he thought of selling this turtle as scrap iron, go home to his son to see, said that it is a bronze turtle, very valuable, is a cultural relic.
The old farmer felt that this matter was very important, so he reported it to the local government, and the experts of the museum also rushed over after hearing about it, according to the preliminary observation of the experts, this turtle should be a turtle of the turtle family, it is at least 3,000 years old, according to the inscription on the back, this shrew should be from the Shang Zhou period.
In the early Shang Dynasty, inscriptions have been cast on bronzes, but the number of words is very small, and in the last years of the Shang Dynasty, the most inscriptions on bronzes only appeared in the inscriptions of a few dozen words, and the Western Zhou Dynasty really entered the heyday of bronze inscriptions, and inscriptions of more than 100 words were very common.
In addition to the four arrows on the back of this bronze shrew, there are 4 lines of 32-character inscriptions: BingShen, Wang Yuhuan, And obtained. The king shoots one, shoots three, and kills (none) the discarded arrow. Wang Ling (命)Sleeping (馗) Brother (贶) in the book, said: "Playing in Yong, as a female (Ru) treasure." ”
In the late Shang Dynasty, the King of Lu and his party hunted in the anyang area of Henan, the object of the hunt was the shrew, the shrew was huge, the maximum weight could reach 100 kilograms, the Tang Dynasty's "Xuanbaozhi" recorded the scene of the shrew and the tiger fighting, the king of the shrew shot an arrow, the album like a continuous praise, the king of the shrew was happy, and shot three arrows in a row.
The king of The Dragon captured the shrew and rewarded it to the album, and as soon as the album returned home, he found a skilled craftsman to cast an identical instrument according to the way the shrew was shot, and the inscription on the back also recorded what happened that day, and the expert named the bronze shrew "bronze shrew like the shangzuo book".
The emergence of the bronze shrew, has a very important research value, archery is one of the six arts, after the Qin and Han, with the development of Confucianism, a variety of etiquette is gradually perfected, archery in the Tang Xuanzong period is the most mature, but the Shang Dynasty archery has already had a basic prototype, which provides a historical record of archery.
The whole bronze shrew is realistic, even if it is shot by the four arrows, it still looks very domineering, some netizens are also very interesting, and even gave this turtle a name "turtle heart four arrows" (return to the heart like an arrow) name, not to mention, this name is indeed quite interesting.