"Shrew, big turtle also." The beetle is the largest, so it is also", the shrew, is a genus of the turtle shrew family, its characteristics are large, weighing up to 100 kilograms or more, because the ancients did not know this creature, it was used as a monster in the river, in the twenty-third time in the "Dream of the Red Chamber", Baoyu said to Lin Daiyu:
"Good sister... If I have the heart to bully you, Ming'er I will fall into the pool, called the leper head shrew swallowed, become a big king eight...", leprosy head shrew is the common name of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generation, in the rest of the place, the shrew, is also regarded as the sixth of the nine sons of the dragon - gantu.
The ancients because of its image, but also made into bronze, in the National Museum of The collection of a bronze shrew, since this bronze shrew for netizens, the comment area is also a frying pan, netizens have given it a very interesting name "turtle heart four arrows", at first glance at the appearance of this shrew, it is really so!
This bronze shrew is called "ShangZuo Book-like Bronze Shrew", which is an extremely precious late Shang bronze with four arrows inserted on the side of the neck and cover: 1 on the left shoulder, 2 on the left side of the back armor, 1 on the right back, and more importantly, this bronze also has an inscription carved.
In the early Shang Dynasty, bronze carving inscriptions were very rare, to the middle and late Shang Dynasty, bronze casting increased significantly, inscription carving also began to appear, but at most there are only a few dozen inscriptions, the Western Zhou Period is the peak of inscription carving, more than 100 words of inscriptions are quite common, more than 200, 300 words there are also many.
This bronze shrew has only 4 lines and 32 words of inscription: "BingShen, Wang Yuhuan, obtained." The king shoots one, shoots three, and kills (none) the discarded arrow. Wang Ling (命)Sleep (馗) Brother (贶) is like a book, that is, playing in Yong, being a female (Ru) treasure. These 32 words also tell the origin of this bronze shrew.
Wang, is Di Xin, that is, we often say that the King of Shang, this name is actually an insult to the Zhou people, before the Zhou Kingdom destroyed the Shang, Di Xin was called "Tianyi Shang", "Tianyi Shang", "Dayi Shang", after the Zhou King destroyed the Shang, there appeared Similar titles of King Wenchang and King Wu of Zhou, and these titles were also added to Di Xin.
In the traditional cognition, Di Xin is described as a tyrant who indulges in wine and is heavily punished, so that in the end, the people rebelled and died and the country was destroyed, and in some existing texts, you can also see many incidents of smearing Di Xin, and the first to say that Di Xin was a tyrant was Confucius's eldest disciple Zigong.
Zigong once said: "Di Xin is not good, it is better to be even worse." Since Zigong said that Di Xin's sins, later generations began to imitate, and in the "Book of Shang" and "History", there are wine forest meat ponds, spoiling women, imprisoning sages, and mutilating Zhongliang.
Due to the very few documents left to later generations, what kind of person Di Xin was, as long as it relied on speculation, but this "bronze shrew like a commercial album" was unearthed, so that historians also unveiled some of the true face of Di Xin.
3100 years ago, on the banks of the Ganges River in Anyang, Henan, the people were boiling and bustling, it turned out that Di Xin and the ministers held a shooting ceremony on the banks of the Ganges River, "shooting" is one of the six arts, "ceremony" is a very solemn thing, Di Xin saw that there was a shrew in the river, he bent his bow and arrow, shot at it, and the first arrow hit the turtle shell.
Di Xin shot three arrows in a row, and all four arrows accurately hit the shrew, which shows that Di Xin's martial arts are extraordinary, and after the shrew was salvaged, Di Xin gave it to a minister called the album, and in order to commemorate this moment, the book was made to build a bronze shrew according to the prototype.
Bronze is the highest ceremonial vessel in Shang, if the King of Lu is really faint and incompetent, it is impossible to create this shrew, this shrew, in 2003, an old man donated to the museum, if it were not for him, a story about Di Xin, I am afraid it would be in the dark.