Counting the world's major ancient civilizations, only the Chinese civilization has been continued, and for five thousand years, there may be obstacles, but it has never been broken.
In addition to the strong assimilation ability of Chinese culture, the excavation of various ancient civilization products that have been discovered is also a major reason.
Cultural relics excavation has always been a very important way for us to study history, and in a variety of cultural relics excavations, we can see the wisdom of the ancients who still shine under the long river of history.
Today's protagonist is such a magical artifact, a legendary "thousand cups of inexhaustible" wine glass, strange shape, after shining with X light, you will know the mystery.
Strangely shaped artifacts
In 1965, in an ancient tomb in Xiangshan, Nanjing, a magical wine glass was waiting to be seen again, it was a family tomb, and archaeologists decided to excavate the tomb after a series of discussions.
With the continuous advancement of excavation work, the true face of this tomb is also slowly revealed, archaeologists speculate according to the epitaph, the owner of this tomb should be Wang Xingzhi, the gate valve of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Perhaps the name Wang Xingzhi is not well known to the world, but there are actually only a few Wang names in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it just so happens that they are still a family.
Although Wang Xingzhi's reputation is not very high, his nephew's family is known to everyone, that is, Wang Xi's family.
Tying to a rope with Wang Xizhi may only make people feel that the reputation of the Wang family is great, and they will not pay too much attention to their family's power.
But what if the Xie family is mentioned? The Xie family was a famous magnate in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, especially Xie An pushed this family to the top, and in this period, the Same Name as the Xie Family was the Wang Family, and the wang Xingzhi's family power is self-evident.
In ancient times, people attached great importance to funerals, and the emperor would build a mausoleum for himself early, and the funeral items were countless.
Although the clans could not beat the emperor in the pomp and circumstance, they would not let their tombs be too ordinary, so they all had the habit of accompanying funerary goods.
Not only to show how precious they were before they died, but also to let them still enjoy the glory of their lives after death, so every archaeological excavation can bring out some unexpected cultural relics, and this excavation is no exception.
In the process of this five-year excavation, many burial objects have been unearthed, and the appearance of the Eastern Jin Dynasty has appeared more and more clearly in front of people's eyes, and one of them has attracted different attention from archaeologists.
It's a very peculiar shape, like a complete conch, but why put such a conch in the funerary product? The experts began their research.
The true identity of the "conch"
After conjecture and research, they believe that this conch-like thing is a wine glass, in Chinese culture, wine culture is an important part, the ancients also often put wine glass in the tomb with the burial products.
It's just that it's generally bronze or jade, and the shape is similar to contemporary wine glasses, and this shape of wine glasses is still the first time to see.
Why did you make a wine glass into this shape? The wine glass is shaped like a disc and looks very similar to the mouth of a parrot, so they all call it a "parrot cup".
In fact, the parrot cup is not without traces in history, and it has appeared in the works of many literati.
Li Bai once wrote in the "Song of Xiangyang" that "cormorant, parrot cup, 36,000 days in a hundred years, 300 cups in one day", this is the trace left by the parrot cup in history.
It can be appreciated by countless people in ancient times, and it is conceivable how popular the parrot cup was in ancient times, and it inevitably aroused people's desire to spy.
The so-called "smell is better than a sight," and the parrot cup that only appears in the text finally appeared in front of people in the form of a physical object at this time.
A wine glass that never runs out
Curious experts immediately began to study this cup, they have only heard that the parrot cup is a magical cup, legend has it that the wine in the parrot cup can not be drunk, which will have Lu You's "parrot cup deep and deep".
But is there really such a thing in the world, obviously impossible, then it must be an illusion caused by the peculiarity of the internal structure.
So they sent this wine glass to the X-ray, which really saw the endless secret of a thousand cups, it turned out that there were many small holes in the inside of the parrot cup, which were connected to each other and woven into a large net.
Therefore, when the wine is poured in, the liquid will enter the grid through those dense holes, so when people pour the wine outward, because of the air pressure, the wine inside will not be poured out at once, but will slowly flow out.
The small amount determines the number of times, and the multiple pouring of wine makes people's brains form an illusion cognition of a lot of wine in the cup, which is the reason why the parrot cup is "a thousand cups are not exhausted".
The parrot cup makes full use of the characteristics of the conch, which is a very magical species on the earth, its history can be traced back hundreds of millions of years, and it has already made its home on the earth before humans existed.
Over the hundreds of millions of years, the homeland on which they live has undergone countless environmental changes, and even the overlords such as dinosaurs have not survived, but the conch has remained.
They will change their internal structure according to changes in the environment, and gradually form the way they are now seen.
The parrot cup we see has another name, called "conch cup", because the appearance of the parrot cup is made by ancestors with a kind of conch called "nautilus".
The Nautilus lives on the seabed at a depth of 100 meters, and it is extremely difficult to catch, which is why there are not many Nautilus cups.
Later, with the reduction of the number of nautilus, the parrot cup gradually disappeared in the long river of history, and even some people said that the parrot cup in Li Bai's poem was just his imagination, and it was more symbolic of his love of wine, until this excavation, it was the parrot cup from legend to reality.
The appearance of the parrot cup is a strong evidence that the ancestors imitated and exploited nature, and in that era when technology was not yet developed, they had long used their wisdom to create their own new world.
Such a parrot cup is not a masterpiece, and later in a Tang Dynasty tomb also unearthed such a parrot cup, with physical evidence to confirm that the literati's parrot cup is by no means fictional, may be in different time and space, Li Bai has really used such a cup and friends to drink.
epilogue
From the beginning of the birth of nothing, to the current rapid development of science and technology, human wisdom has not fallen off the line, but with the progress of the times, our creativity has changed from the previous wine glass to technology.
Looking back at history, whether it is a classic classic book or a piece of cultural relics that make people shoot cases, the wisdom of the ancients is displayed in it, and the five thousand years of history, the Chinese nation that can lead the world for more than four thousand years will be a vain name.
A parrot cup is not enough to show the wisdom of the ancients, and with the archaeological excavations, the story of that time and space is losing the mysterious veil little by little and unfolding in front of us.