In a museum in our country, there is a collection of "priceless" cultural relics, it is not afraid of the hot sun nor afraid of wind and frost, rain and snow, it is said that the museum management in order to allow tourists to better appreciate, actually put the cultural relics outside the museum. What kind of artifact is this? If you want to know, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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Archaeology is an interesting science and a prudent science, why? It is only because ancient cultural relics have experienced thousands of years of ups and downs, and they have become unbearable. The preservation of cultural relics is a science, and all cultural relics unearthed by archaeology without exception need to be strictly protected, otherwise, cultural treasures will be destroyed or even completely disappeared. A philosopher once said that "nothing is eternal", and yes, in the baptism of time, under the wash of time, everything will cease to exist.
In the famous story of Three Foot Lane, there was a classic saying, "The Great Wall is still there today, and I don't see qin shi huang in that year." But the question also lies in this, is the Great Wall really "still here"? This is by no means the case. The ruins of the Great Wall of Qin are now recognized as part of the site of the Lintao Great Wall, which stretches from west to east for nearly 100 miles, and although it has been eroded by wind and rain for thousands of years, the ancient city wall and beacon tower can still be clearly seen. According to archaeologists, the construction material of this section of the Great Wall is a mixture of loess mixed rubble and rammed by heavy objects, which is also one of the most important styles of the Qin Great Wall.
In addition to the Lintao Qin Great Wall, there is also a section of the Qin Great Wall in the Baotou area, which enters from Ningxia and extends to Hebei through Guyang, which is an important military building built by Qin Shi Huang to resist the Xiongnu, with a length of more than 200 Miles, the whole is built according to the dangers of the mountain, and the mountain is made of stone, so the weathering damage is not serious, and the Great Wall built with loess on the flat ground has been weathered into a large loess pile, which no longer has the momentum of the past.
Coincidentally, the ancient Egyptian civilization, which is also one of the four ancient countries, has also experienced the baptism of time. Ancient Egyptian pyramids are famous all over the world, the largest of which is the Pyramid of Khufu, which is huge and imposing, and seems to be an effort to interpret the untouchable authority of the pharaohs. Built 4,600 years ago and reaching a height of 146.59 meters, the Pyramid of Khufu is no exaggeration to call it "one of the greatest buildings of mankind" as the mausoleum of the pharaoh Khufu. However, the waves of the long river of history did not let go of the Pyramid of Khufu, and after thousands of years of construction, the Pyramid of Khufu began to weather rapidly, from the original height of nearly 147 meters, gradually becoming a 136.5-meter "medium-sized pyramid", and the tower stones of nearly 10 meters or so at the top have all disappeared. Archaeologists predict that if the Pyramid of Khufu continues to weather at this rate, it may disappear completely from the earth in tens of thousands of years, and ancient Egyptian civilization will be erased.
But there are exceptions to everything, and in the process of changing years, there will be "survivors" who can escape the ravages of time and become truly "eternal", and it is stored in the Jinsha Site Museum. Located in Chengdu, Sichuan, China, Jinsha Site Museum is a national first-class museum in China, which covers an area of 456 acres, with a construction area of 38,000 square meters, and displays nearly 10,000 cultural relics excavated from jinsha sites, which is a domestic site museum built for the protection, research and display of Jinsha culture and ancient Shu civilization. Just outside the museum, there is a special cultural relic on display, and many visitors to the museum have had the privilege of seeing it and questioning from the bottom of their hearts why such precious cultural relics are placed outside the museum. Originally, the artifact was a huge ebony, and the librarians deliberately placed it outside the museum to let the wind and rain blow.
In 1997, when the local railway department was building a railway in The Qingbaijiang District of Chengdu, road construction workers dug out a huge ebony from the ground and immediately gave notice to the archaeological department. After the archaeologists' research found that the ebony tree found this time is a fragrant fruit tree, its residual length is 27 meters, the maximum diameter is 2.1 meters, and it weighs dozens of tons. Later, carbon fourteen was determined to have a 6500-year-old age of death and a growth period of more than 1000 years on Earth. Because it has been completely carbonized in the deep underground burial, the material itself is extremely stable, and it is said that it can "live the same life" as the earth. It is precisely because of this that the staff of the Sands Museum will deliberately place it outside the museum to create the most natural environment and satisfy the desire of visitors to watch.
I have to say that the ebony displayed outside the Sands Museum is completely a treasure left to us by nature, not regenerative, and does not require our deliberate protection, so we must cherish it.
Reference: "Ebony Record" by Li Qing published by Sichuan Publishing House
Wen xiucai, editor-in-chief of Wenlan Hairun Studio, written by: Special history writer: Changshan Zhao Zi worm