"Turtle" believes that everyone is very familiar, in ancient China, turtle shell is often used as a divination prop, it is also a symbol of longevity, high life, the colloquial "millennium king eighty thousand years turtle" is to say that the turtle is particularly long-lived.
In 2003, the National Museum of China faced the whole country and collected strange objects from everyone, and for a time, the people of the whole country took out "strange" things and handed them to the state, including many rare treasures. One of the "big turtles" caught the attention of experts.
The old farmer who handed in the "big turtle" said that he had picked it up from fishing in the river before, and he thought it was a real turtle, and when he fished it up and took a closer look, it turned out to be a bronze vessel, which was just openly collected by the National Museum, and he immediately handed it in.
According to the initial observations of experts, the "big turtle" is made of bronze and looks about 3,000 years old, but the "strange" thing is that it has 4 arrows inserted on its back. As soon as netizens heard the news, they were immediately curious.
The National Museum is also very humane, immediately put its photo on the Internet, triggered a heated discussion, and even a netizen gave it a name of "Turtle Heart Four Arrows" (return to the heart like an arrow), not to mention, this name is quite interesting. Just when netizens were discussing speculation, the National Museum was actively studying.
The original "big turtle" is not called a turtle strictly speaking, although the appearance is very similar to a turtle, but it is called a shrew (yuán), is a genus of turtle turtle family, characterized by a large body, weighing up to 100 kg, turtle is a turtle turtle under the order of all animals collectively. The museum named it "Album Bronze Shrew".
After identification, it is a bronze piece of the late Shang, the whole shape shows a crawling appearance, stretching out the head, the tail is left, 4 feet are exposed, and each under the claw has a square button as a support foot. It has a total of 4 arrows inserted in its neck and shell: 1 on the left shoulder, 2 on the left side of the dorsal armor, and 1 on the right rear, all four arrows are shot into the feathers exposed after the shrew.) And 32 words are engraved on the back of the shrew.
In the middle of the shrewback armor there is an inscription of 4 lines and 32 characters: "Bing Shen, Wang Yu Huan, obtained." The king shoots one, shoots three, and kills (none) the discarded arrow. Wang Ling (命)Sleeping (馗) Brother (贶) in the book, said: "Playing in Yong, as a female (Ru) treasure." ”
Simply put, more than 3,000 years ago, the Shang Dynasty King Di Xin and his party held a shooting competition in the Huan River in Anyang, Henan, and the hunting objects this time were fish, turtles and other objects. The first arrow was sent by the King of Shang, this unlucky shrew just happened to swim in the water, the King of Shang Yi found it, "sigh", the arrow shot into the neck of the shrew, next to the album (official name) "like" quickly patted the horse's ass, the King of Shang Yi happily shot 3 arrows in a row.
Who doesn't love to listen to the pat on the back? The King of Shang put away his bow and arrow and ordered the men to pick up the shrew and reward it to Him. As soon as he returned home, he immediately found a skilled craftsman to cast an identical instrument according to the dead shrew, which is today's "album-like bronze shrew". He hadn't forgotten to record the events of that day, so he carved 32 inscriptions on its back.
The appearance of this cultural relic provides an important basis for the study of archery in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and this "like" also appears in other Shang Dynasty bronze inscriptions, and he later followed the Shang King around and received many other rewards.
Looking at the appearance of this bronze shrew, I can vaguely imagine the panic after it was shot by the Shang King, all 4 feet are stretched out, if it is still alive, it is more than 3,000 years old now, and now it is preserved in the form of a bronze, is it happy or worried?