Thousands of years of farming civilization have determined the heritage of Chinese culture. "The people take food as the sky", this sentence full of philosophy, the Tao exhausted the bitterness of our ancestors, because there was always not enough grain, the people began to hope for the gods, the vesta god came into being, but in the tomb of Zhao Qing in Taiyuan, the most important thing is not the excavated tiger-shaped stove, but a chimney, why is this? Let me reveal the secrets to you.
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Jinsheng Village, Jinyang County, Taiyuan City, was originally just a remote village that no one paid attention to, the only thing that did not abandon it was the Fenhe River that had been flowing for thousands of years, in 1987, this small village ushered in a turning point in its destiny, in the spring of this year, the Taiyuan First Power Plant originally built at the east entrance of the village needed to be expanded, but at the time of construction, the workers accidentally found a large number of ancient sites, fortunately, the contractor had a sense of protecting cultural relics, and called the archaeologists in the province.
After the security personnel carried out the blockade, the experts began to carefully explore the land, hoping to get the exact range of the tomb, to their surprise, this ancient tomb group seems to be endless, of which there are more than 700 larger tombs, experts have pressed the excitement, one by one began to excavate them. Among the many ancient tombs, there is a very special one, it is huge in shape, the collection in the tomb is extremely rich, from the excavated stone stele, experts concluded: this is the Jin Dynasty Zhengqing Zhao Jianzi.
As the leader of the Zhao clan of the Jin dynasty during the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhao Jianzi served as a scholar and doctor, concentrated on assisting in state affairs, devoted himself to reform, and contributed his strength to the strength of the Jin state. Zhao Qing's tomb is very well preserved, the tomb length is 11 meters, 9.2 meters wide, the depth is 14 meters, experts have excavated 3421 precious cultural relics from it, of which as many as 1402 bronzes, most of them are gorgeous shapes, exquisite carvings, but the most representative of them is a "stove".
This stove is made of bronze casting throughout, the top end of a bowl, in fact, it is used to put the pot stove, in front of the stove is a erect chimney, the most interesting thing is that the bottom of the entrance to add fuel, actually was carved into a tiger head shape, the big tiger opened the blood basin mouth, just waiting to "eat" into the fuel, experts feel that this design is very talented, so that the stove seems to become a boulder pressed on the tiger's head, the chimney becomes the tiger's tail. Therefore, experts named it "Eastern Zhou Tiger-shaped Stove". But experts believe that the most precious place in this stove is the "tiger's tail" chimney.
In today's natural gas, smoke machine into the social environment of every household, the word chimney gradually faded out of our lives, but the chimney is the earliest anti-pollution facilities invented by human beings, "囱" is the meaning of the top exhaust port, the glare of the black smoke is smoked away, the fireworks are separated, and the smoke pollution is initially solved. So when did the chimney appear? International records of archaeological discoveries show that on the banks of the upper Euphrates River, the ruins of a 4,000-year-old palace have been found, and this site has many chimneys made of stones, the oldest chimney ever found.
A few stones are randomly stacked to form a chimney, which is too primitive, when did the movable chimney appear? The popular view in the ancient cultural circles is that the movable chimney was introduced to Western Europe by Syrians and Jewish merchants more than 1200 years ago, and then driven by the Industrial Revolution, europeans made a large-scale transformation of it, gradually making the chimney what it is today.
Zhao Jianzi, who lived in the Jin Dynasty during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, he was an ancient man two thousand years ago, his tomb naturally has a history of more than two thousand years, the excavation of this tiger-shaped stove movable chimney means that as early as two thousand years ago, the wise people of our country have begun to compose the "civilization of chimneys", and Zhao Jianzi, who did not think of a lifetime of hardship, laid the foundation for the Zhao kingdom before his death, and left such a precious wealth for our nation after his death, so it can be seen that the chimney is by no means a masterpiece of Westerners. The so-called cultural self-confidence, not only from books, but also from cultural relics, a small chimney, let us get a world first, which is also the most important significance of archaeology!
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou
Source: 1. "History" by Sima Qian [Western Han]; published by Writers Publishing House