Read and observe history, talk about the past and discuss the present, inherit the humanities, and watch over justice. Welcome to the bragging orangutans blowing history. As we all know, there are many amazing craftsmanship techniques in ancient China, and many very exquisite crafts cannot even be made with high technology now. If you use two words to describe these technologies, the first is "Kit Kat", and the second is "ghostly craftsmanship". In ancient China, there was a kind of "kit kat fornication", which made foreigners lose their jaws and was banned by Yongzheng!
Many of our ancient handicrafts were used for ornamental purposes at the beginning of their invention, and in the Qing Dynasty, because commerce gradually prospered, these exquisite crafts began to circulate gradually, and the price also rose. Clever craftsmen have studied these techniques to the extreme, such as a magical object we are talking about today, the ghost ball. Ghost balls are called ivory carving balls, and this object is taken from natural giant bones. Of course, later there were also sets of balls made of giant ivory.
In a book called "Gegu Essentials", there is a description of the "ghost work ball", "Taste an ivory ball, a straight through a trick, the number of cars in the car, can be rotated, so it is called the ghost work ball, or the author in the inner courtyard of Gaozong." The unique feature of the "Ghost Ball" is that a complete piece of ivory material is cleverly hollowed out into layers of spheres, the sphere is exquisite and transparent, and each layer is hollowed out to carve a different transparent pattern pattern, and can rotate freely. It is said that the craftsmen of the highest level can carve the "ghost ball" into the 57 floors inside, which is an astonishing height.
The "ivory carving ball" can be seen from its name that it is derived from the teeth of animals, and yes, every "ivory carving ball" that can be produced uses a complete ivory, and then it is hollowed out layer by layer, and each layer after the hollowing can be rotated independently. In the Qing Dynasty, the layering within the ghost work ball had reached as many as 13 layers. However, when this object was presented to Yongzheng, it made him furious and ordered it to be strictly prohibited.
Foreigners see the ghost ball can not help but praise a mouthful, scramble to take pictures, many foreigners are more regarded as treasures, and even want to copy the exact same ghost ball, but because of the huge difficulty of production, so the probability of becoming a waste product is also extremely high, has spent a lot of time and financial resources can not copy it out, even the Japanese who love to imitate us are ashamed of their Chinese skills!