When legends and poetry are silent, precious artifacts become the most authentic background of a city, a dynasty and even the world, telling us the stories of the past. China's vast land and long culture have not only given birth to a splendid Chinese civilization, but also preserved many precious historical relics.
But what is surprising is that some historical relics are not as "ancient" and "ancient" as everyone imagines, but have many striking similarities with modern products, such as the following cultural relics, which seem to be "crossing" the past from the 21st century, which is incredible!
Hangzhou Museum "Treasure of the Town Hall" - Warring States Crystal Cup
In October 1990, a rare treasure, a crystal cup, was unearthed from the Warring States No. 1 Tomb in Shitang Village, Banshan Town, Hangzhou. The cup is 15.4cm high, 7 .8cm caliber, 5.4cm bottom diameter, polished and polished by a whole piece of crystal clear crystal, is the largest shape of China's early crystal products so far, is the "treasure of the town hall" of Hangzhou Museum, and was listed by the Cultural Relics Bureau in 2002 as the first batch of cultural relics prohibited from appearing on camera, its historical status can be seen!
The most amazing thing is that this treasure is very similar to today's transparent glass. Many experts and tourists who are fortunate enough to see the Warring States Crystal Cup are amazed by the wonders of this cultural relic: the overall simple shape, the transparent cup body, and the thick bottom of the cup are simply modern crafts that "cross" to the Warring States!
The "mug" of the Xia Dynasty - the gray pottery cup
In addition to the crystal cup of the Warring States, the history goes back to the Xia Dynasty, and there is also a beautiful handicraft that is also praised, that is, the "gray pottery cup" excavated from the Erlitou site.
At first glance, this artifact may seem unremarkable, but if you look closely, you will find that it is very similar to another modern daily utensil, that is, the mug.
The gray pottery cup excavated from the Erlitou site was fired by the ancients using gray pottery technology, and its outer strips of convex ridges look like melon ridges, coupled with properly proportioned handles, which is really similar to today's mugs.
But speaking of the difference with the mug, it should be the symbolic value of this cultural relic. The spacing between the melon edges on the surface of the gray pottery cup is basically the same, which tells us that in the Xia Dynasty or even earlier stages, the ancients already knew the techniques and concepts of equal division, which really made us marvel at the wisdom of the ancients!
Mysterious Tombstone - "Ridiculous Stele"
Wilde once said, "One should always maintain a little mystery." "Back to the precious cultural relics, if a cultural relics are draped in a mysterious veil, it will definitely attract more experts and scholars to study." There is such a tombstone in Qi County, Henan, and there is still no conclusion about the identity of the owner of the tombstone, and this tombstone is a "ridiculous stele".
I believe that when many people first hear about this tombstone, they will definitely be amused by the name of the tombstone. In fact, the origin of the name of this tombstone is very simple, that is, it originates from the two eye-catching large characters on the stele "nonsense".
Such a witty and humorous tombstone is similar to the Internet buzzwords of today's era, which makes people sigh that the ancients would occasionally be naughty. In addition, this tombstone is engraved with a total of 111 characters, the stele is 178 cm high, 86 cm wide and 18 cm thick, which is a famous attraction in Qi County, Henan.
It is worth mentioning that there is also a wonderful experience of the stele, it is said that this tombstone has experienced many major events such as the cruel War of Resistance Against Japan, the War of Liberation, the Cultural Revolution, etc., but it is still very well preserved, and it still stands in the Henan Xingtai Park.
The identity of the owner of the tombstone has also been a mystery, and several current speculations are those of the Ming Dynasty's courtiers Mu Shi, the Chongzhen Emperor and Mu Huaigu. In any case, I believe that this tombstone still continues to move forward in the direction of historical development, waiting for the appearance of a person and unraveling its mysterious veil!
The ancients' tool of weights and measures - bronze caliper
The word weights and measures, I believe everyone is not unfamiliar, as early as primary school we should have heard the story of Qin Shi Huang's unified weights and measures. But when it comes to the tools of weights and measures, everyone should not understand deeply, and in the Han Dynasty, there was such a tool for weights and measures, which was tedious in construction and the degree of measurement precision was amazing, that is, bronze calipers.
In May 1992, the bronze caliper was excavated from a brick chamber tomb in the early Eastern Han Dynasty in Yangzhou City, consisting of two major parts, a fixed caliper and a movable caliper, with a fixed ruler length of 13.3 cm, a fixed jaw length of 5.2 cm, a thickness of 0.5 cm, and a width of 0.9 cm, which is a very typical "modern" caliper structure.
If you take a black-and-white photo of a bronze caliper and put it together with a black-and-white photo of a modern caliper, I bet you may choose the wrong one, because the two are really strikingly similar: from the main components, the fixed ruler and the moving ruler of the Eastern Han Bronze caliper are equivalent to the main and secondary rulers of the modern vernier caliper.
Of course, realistically speaking, if these two really want to PK, the better comparison is still our modern vernier caliper. However, it is worth affirming that the discovery of bronze calipers in the Eastern Han Dynasty provides a very valuable reference value for the study of the development of weights and measures, and further promotes the historical study of weights and measures.
The "top technology" of the Maya period , rocket relief
In the long history of tens of millions of years, there is an ancient and mysterious civilization that has attracted many archaeologists, that is, the Mayan civilization.
As a representative of the jungle culture, the Maya civilization had extremely high achievements in mathematics, agriculture, astronomy, and art, and many of the achievements of civilization still seem surprising to this day. Today I want to talk about the rocket relief in it.
The rocket relief, located in the "Temple of Inscriptions" of the Baronje Shrine, is a wall of very magnificent and exquisite relief murals. One of the youth reliefs is amazing, only to see him wearing a helmet similar to a modern "astronaut hat" and operating a machine.
The "dashboard" can still be clearly seen on the machine, and the machine also seems to have flames spewing out, like today's aviation rockets, and people have to guess that the Mayan prediction seems to have a reason. We will also wonder what other wonderful wisdom of the ancients is waiting for us to explore.
History is always strikingly similar, and fashion is always a circle. Judging from these five cultural relics, whether ancient or modern, it seems that there is always a special connection.
Build a bridge for us to explore history, from which we inherit and witness the long and splendid Chinese civilization, and also use the power of cultural relics to "cross" to the cities and dynasties at that time, feeling the rich cultural heritage and historical changes of thousands of years.