The ingenious skills of ancient China often amaze people, and in ancient times, when science and technology were extremely backward, only the hands of skilled craftsmen could create many exquisite and rare treasures. In recent years, with the maturity of archaeological technology, many ancient tombs can make the remaining cultural relics intact when carrying out rescue excavations, and some broken cultural relics have also been re-seen under the cleaning and restoration of professionals. It is really exciting to truly feel the atmosphere of cultural relics thousands of years ago in the museum, and it has to be said that the merits of archaeologists are great.
In 1956, a mining machinery factory in Luoyang was working on a construction site when a thousand-year-old tomb was accidentally discovered. Archaeologists first conducted a comprehensive survey after their arrival, and found that the tomb was surrounded by robbery holes, and the consequences of entering the tomb were as expected, in addition to some cultural relics buried in the corner, there were several stone tablets, and it can only be speculated through the text on the tombstone, this ancient tomb was built in the eighth year of Cao Wei. Although there are not many artifacts, archaeologists have conducted a careful survey of the tomb and found a cup in a dirt-covered corner. After cleaning and identification, experts were surprised to find that this is a rare mutton fat white jade cup and excellent color, 11.5 cm height plus 5.2 cm caliber, it is not difficult to imagine the ancients held this kind of wine glass when drinking, jade feel warm, touch is still slightly cool.
After cleaning, through the clear shape and material combined with the historical data, such a drinking vessel should have been popular for a period of time during the Cao Wei period. Different from the previous wine glasses, its cup body does not have any inscription carving decoration, the whole body is milky and smooth, but it is carved from a whole piece of Hetian jade, which is very in line with the simple style that people pursue today, and the so-called simple but not simple is nothing more than this. Perhaps it was precisely because of his bland appearance that he was able to escape the clutches of tomb robbers. This kind of flat-shaped wine glass, its carving kung fu is extremely demanding, and the craftsman's pure fire skills can be seen from its undisturbed lines. Compared with other jade cultural relics of the Three Kingdoms period, this is undoubtedly a rare fine product. In addition to its precious material, its appearance is also relatively rare in ancient times. It is said that the popularity of this style lasted only for twenty or thirty years, and it is inseparable from the custom of the Wei and Jin celebrities who were good and xuan and admired the Dao Zhijian.
Cao Pi, who ascended the throne in 220 AD, was extremely opposed to the extravagant and wasteful bad habits since the Eastern Han Dynasty, but instead greatly admired the frugal life, and even more agreed with the "thin burial" emphasized by his father before his death. This cup in the nameless ancient tomb is undoubtedly one of the treasures in the funerary products, compared with the Cao Wei cultural relics unearthed over the years, it is still no inferior, no decoration has become the biggest decoration, fortunately, the tomb robber has no eyes and no pearls to be able to appear. Now in the Luoyang Museum for the world to admire, and in 2012, in a public selection of the treasures of the town hall, he was listed as the treasure of the town hall with his simple appearance along with the Xia Dynasty milk nail pattern bronze jue, the Eastern Han Dynasty stone to ward off evil spirits, the Tang Sancai black glazed horse, and the Qing Dynasty golden silk Nanmu. This is also enough to show that this design of the ancients coincides with the fashion concept of today's people.
Cultural relics have witnessed the rise and fall of history, on this whole body of light and no grain white jade cup, the flawless jade color seems to emerge from the seven sons of Jian'an and the seven sages of the bamboo forest, the temperament of the Wei and Jin dynasties comes with the aroma of wine, and its jade body without any decoration is not like the Wei jin scholars, who are still humble and independent in the dark political storm.