introduction
"Weaving Woman's Words": "Yuan Shu Silk Weaving is still working hard, changing the machine to weave hardships." "In ancient China, there were countless skilled craftsmen who used their wisdom and hands to create many artistic treasures, from fine silky silk, to the splendid Tang Sancai, to the warm and elegant blue and white porcelain... Their creations not only left valuable wealth to future generations, but also demonstrated China's far-reaching and long-term cultural taste.
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In the long history of 5,000 years, dynastic changes have been staged in turn, various heroes have sung and appeared, and the warriors have not forgotten to invent and create in the war. In order to better protect themselves and improve the efficiency of combat, people can be described as painstaking, from the spear used to attack, to the shield to resist the enemy's attack, to the armor that can effectively protect the body, all of which are the crystallization of wisdom that people have summed up on the battlefield. However, there is another very important thing on the battlefield that cannot be ignored, that is, the "cloud board".
▲Southern Song Dynasty cloud board
You know, in the ancient battlefield, if people want to pass on the news, they usually have to choose to light a beacon. However, the use of beacons has great limitations, and people think: is there anything better that can replace beacons, so as to better and faster deliver messages? Zhao Kuangyin, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, was also troubled by this, and he was often awakened by the sound of war drums when he had just laid down the country, and he could not sleep peacefully. In order to solve this problem, he gathered many skilled craftsmen and asked them to come up with a solution to this problem. The craftsmen brainstormed and later made a "cloud board" that could convey sound and at the same time be light and convenient.
▲Zhao Kuangyin stills
However, our understanding of cloud plates only exists in ancient books, and no one has ever seen a physical object. In order to better understand and study history, archaeologists have painstakingly searched for it, but they have never found anything. Fast forward thirty years, and just when many people are about to give up searching, an archaeologist has made a major discovery by chance.
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"Absolute Sentence": "There is no place to step on the iron shoe, and it takes no effort to get it." One day 25 years ago, archaeologists happened to pass by a primary school in Haicheng, Liaoning Province, and when they saw the teacher tapping the bell of the class with a small iron piece, he instantly thought of the "cloud board" recorded in the history books that could be used to transmit military information on the battlefield. After careful identification, the expert confirmed that this iron sheet is the "cloud plate" that people have been looking for for 30 years, and they are relieved to say: Finally found. When the school learned that the bell ringer was a cultural relic, it immediately generously handed it over to the local museum free of charge and was properly kept. In this way, a humble elementary school bell iron piece was transformed into a cultural relic.
▲Elementary school bell ringer
The emergence of the "cloud plate" fills this gap in the history of Chinese archaeology, and also allows more people to understand the infinite wisdom of the ancients on the battlefield. However, some people have also questioned this matter, and they believe that such a precious cultural relic is used by rural primary schools as a tool to remind them to go to and from class, which is really a tyrannical thing. However, cultural relics such as "cloud plates" that have never been unearthed are indeed not identifiable by non-professional people, and even archaeologists can draw conclusions after careful comparison and identification, let alone ordinary people. Therefore, we cannot blame the uninformed, let alone rebuke them for their inadvertent faults.
▲ Ancient war stills
As far as common sense is concerned, the scattered cultural relics, because there is no special protection, are bound to produce some wear and tear, and some may even be severely damaged to the point of mutilation, and what archaeologists have to do is to save the value of these cultural relics as much as possible. The development of history is always a thousand turns, and historical changes and wars and cholera will make many rare treasures suffer from the disaster of innocence, some may die in the chaotic situation, and some may be lost to the people, from a wonderful and carefully enshrined artistic treasure to a large bowl for ordinary people to feed pigs, or a large jar for pickling pickles.
▲The Great Jade Sea of The Mountains
For example, what impressed people was Not Kublai Khan's "Great Jade Sea". In 1226, northern craftsmen presented Kublai Khan with a twelve-month, elaborate jade urn carved from a single piece of ink jade, with lifelike sea beasts and dragons on the outer wall. After Kublai Khan got this object, he loved it very much and ordered people to place it in the Guanghan Palace.
▲ Kublai Khan stills
The Mongols were rough-natured and liked to drink, and Kublai Khan often invited many civilian and military generals to the Guanghan Palace, and from then on, he scooped wine from the urn and drank bitterly. Later, the Ming army attacked Dadu and burned many palaces, and the Mongols fled from the palace like rats, and the exquisite jade urn was lost. It was not until the Qianlong period that people retrieved it from the hands of a Taoist monk.
epilogue
It can be seen that the treasures are in the city, but not everyone can find, in order to protect these precious and abnormal treasures, the intensity of china's popularization of cultural relics knowledge should be further increased, and every ordinary person should try to understand and understand the importance of cultural relics, and the objects that see suspected cultural relics can be submitted to experts in time for identification, so as not to let the cultural relics be lost in the market.
Resources:
"Weaver Woman's Word", "Absolute Sentence"