I believe that tourists who have been to the Hunan Provincial Museum must know the treasure of the plain gauze (dan) clothing, the full name of the plain gauze tunic is called the Western Han Dynasty straight gauze tunic, which is an absolute national treasure level cultural relics, but also the lightest clothes found so far, it is only 49 grams, really can match the reputation of "light as smoke, thin as cicada wings".
I remember when the archaeological team cleaned out the plain gauze shirt, it was really surprised, because the plain gauze shirt was indeed too light and thin, and then the experts wanted to imitate it, it took several years, and finally after countless failures to successfully imitate the plain gauze shirt, now we all see in the Hunan Provincial Museum the plain gauze shirt is actually an imitation, and the real thing is generally not easy to take out.
Although the excavation of the plain gauze shirt is shocking, but the most shocking thing for archaeologists is not its plain gauze shirt, but a "bug" hiding in the plain gauze shirt, when archaeologists saw this bug, they were still very surprised, so in the years since, various experts have had a very fierce debate about this bug.
So what is this bug? Its scientific name is called the hook-striped beetle, this name still sounds extremely tall, in fact, the hook-striped beetle is a kind of insect that lives in clothing or food, and we sometimes find that the clothes stored in the wardrobe suddenly have a black hole, and the culprit of the black hole is these hook-and-striped beetles.
In fact, the origin of this kind of hook-striped leather beetle is in the Americas, and it is recognized that it appeared in China more than 60 years ago, and then the hook-striped beetle also survived on our Land of China, but the problem here comes, to know that the plain gauze cyano was unearthed in the Mawangdui Han Tomb more than 2,000 years ago, but the hook-striped beetle came to China for more than 60 years, so how did the Western Han Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago have the existence of the hook-and-striped beetle?
Could it be that the origin of the barbed beetle is not in the Americas, but in our country, when the American experts learned of this news, they naturally claimed that it was absolutely impossible, and our Chinese experts doubted that this was going to rewrite history again? Perhaps we really had insects such as hook-and-striped beetles in ancient China, but the history books forgot to record them, but this inference was denied by insect experts.
The argument they give is that we know that Siberian tigers are native to the Northeast, but there are Siberian tigers all over the world today, is it possible to say that Siberian tigers are not from the Northeast? There is some truth to this reason, but it still does not explain why the hook-and-striped beetle appears in plain gauze cuffs.
Until now, the emergence of the hook-striped beetle is still a mystery, experts are still continuing to explore and study, history is indeed more and more interesting, I hope that when the time comes to really disclose the reasons why the hook-striped beetle appears in the Western Han Plain Gauze jacket!