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When it comes to archaeology, we are no strangers.
The "blind boxes" dismantled everywhere last year brought us many surprises.
It resembles a "Ultraman" bronze standing figure, super cute cat's claw gold ornaments, strange-looking bronze masks, and so on
These treasures that have been sleeping for thousands of years have been excavated by archaeologists and appeared in the public eye.
What do they really look like? Let's take a look at some special treasures.
Sanxingdui ruins
"Little Ultraman" bronze statue of a small standing figure
It is understood that the bronze statue of the god Ultraman is not more than 20 centimeters high, wearing a pointed crown, protruding eyes, and an exaggerated face, resembling the image of Ultraman. The only difference is that Ultraman on TV wears leggings, while the bronze villain in Sanxingdui wears a robe. In addition, Ultraman has a variety of shapes, and the bronze villains of Sanxingdui are held with their hands empty, which should be an action in some kind of ritual.
Shortly after the discovery of the ultraman-like bronze statue, archaeologists found a bronze statue of the same shape in the middle and south of pit 3. Young archaeologists simply called it "Ultraman."
"Ancient Shu version of Zhuge Liang"
Standing bronze figure
In the No. 3 sacrifice pit, another bronze human head resembles zhuge liang in the Three Kingdoms period. The artifact was found while extracting the large bronze mask inside the pit, and although it is a bronze figure, it is completely different from the bronze human head unearthed in 1986. His hair curled back into an exaggerated form of tiles, like the crown hat worn by Zhuge Liang. This bronze human head also has a bronze component connection behind the head, which should be an integral part of other artifacts.
"Empty hand to white blade"
Turn your head and kneel down to sit on the portrait
This group of figures belongs to about the late Shang Dynasty, and their hands show a "heten" shape and flat posture, which is for the functional needs of lifting heavy objects, and seems to have little to do with the ritual of sacrifice. They belong to composite bronzes or sacrificial vessels, but as the figure of the pedestal, the status should be lower, not a clergy. The ornamentation of the portrait is complex and diverse, and the interlaced V-shaped pattern, feather crown pattern and swallowtail pattern are all found for the first time. The feather crown pattern on the calf belly on the left and right sides of the bronze figure is a newly discovered ornament in the artifacts excavated from the Sanxingdui sacrificial relics pit so far, representing the image of the bird.
Shanxi Yuanqu North White Goose Two Week Cemetery
"The cuteest kitten's claw"
Gold-foot shaped vessel
On April 22, 2021, in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, citizens visited the Eastern Zhou Dynasty cultural relics - foot-shaped gold ornaments at the Shanxi Archaeological Museum. Foot-shaped gold ornaments were excavated from Tomb No. 1 of the White Goose Cemetery in Qubei, Yuanyuan, Shanxi, according to archaeologists, the owner of the tomb is a man, and there are a total of five cat's claw-shaped gold ornaments unearthed, which may be the accessories worn by the tomb owner on the waist. Five cat's claw-shaped gold ornaments and small thumb nail caps are about the same size, dating back about 2700 years, and are called the most cute cultural relics by netizens.
Ruins of Liulihe in Fangshan, Beijing
"Peppa Pig's Brother"
Bronze mask
The Liuli River is widely known for its archaeological discoveries in 1974. In 2021, in order to build the Liulihe National Archaeological Site Park with high quality and strengthen the level of site display, archaeologists conducted another archaeological excavation of the Liulihe site, including the two large tombs excavated from the Weiding and Boji. The newly excavated bronze masks, animal-shaped copper ornaments, groups of copper carriages and horses, and hollowed-out bronze ge, exquisite ornamentation and rich details, are all found for the first time. Among them, the bronze mask is simple in shape, "there is a nose and an eye", quite a bit of cute temperament, some netizens describe, at first glance like Peppa Pig.
Ruins of Qingping Fort in Shaanxi
"Muscle full, kong wu powerful"
Painted clay to create an image
On June 13, 2021, Shaanxi archaeologists recently discovered a rare Ming Dynasty Great Wall Camp Fort site in Jingbian County, Yulin City, cleaning up a large number of architectural relics such as discharge, central building, and city defense facilities, revealing the historical original appearance of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall Border Camp Fort. Well-preserved painted clay statues have been found in the building, and more than 30 statues have been found. The statues are close to life-size, brightly colored, lifelike, showing a very high level of art, and the number of statues is large and well preserved.
As more and more cultural relics are unearthed, the public's attention to archaeology is also increasing. In order to meet the current "archaeological fever", major museums have successively launched a variety of archaeological "blind boxes". There are also many innovations. Let's take a look at what they are
Henan Museum
In order to meet everyone's fun of "playing with the soil", the first generation of archaeology blind box "Lost Treasures" of the Henan Museum was fired out of the circle as soon as it was launched, and the upgraded second-generation "Exploring Ash Pits" series combined archaeological excavations with cultural relics restoration, full of creativity. People can pick up a shovel to dig up the soil, and then carefully sweep away the dust, plan out an unknown "treasure", and realize that they can "dig up cultural relics" at home.
Xinjiang Museum
The "blind box of time" launched by the Xinjiang Museum puts the treasures of the ancient Silk Road into clay pots and seals, and what you have to do is to sift out the "diluted treasures" on the Silk Road from the "wind and sand of Taklamakan". There is also a pure copper hourglass in the blind box, and the sand left after sifting out the treasure needs to be filled into this hourglass to "seal" time. Clay pots can not be idle, the blind box also has the world's best quality Xinjiang cotton seeds, you can plant cotton seeds in this clay pot, life is once again in the long river of time to conceive.
Sanxingdui archaeological blind box
Sanxingdui Museum launched the "Sanxingdui Archaeological Blind Box", the blind box will be pigs, chickens, birds, bronze sacred trees and other miniature cultural relics hand hidden in the soil, the mound form in the blind box borrows the characteristics of the Sanxingdui site, the soil appearance, form, color is also similar to the archaeological pit. Netizen comments: Soil that is close to the original taste may be more valuable than handmade.
Hebei Museum
The design of the Tang Dynasty Lady Yoga Hand Blind Box launched by the Hebei Museum is inspired by the Tang Dynasty ladies in the painted Sanle relief of the Hebei Museum. The blind box is a set of box series, a total of nine movements, the character form is simple and realistic, the Tang Dynasty women's plump and strong and yoga soft bodybuilding seamlessly combined, whether as a viewing or as a model for learning yoga, is a fun handmade blind box.
Shandong Museum
The new archaeological blind box on the Shandong Provincial Museum is called the Qilu Treasure Series, which selects 8 representative cultural relics from the collection of the Shandong Provincial Museum as prototypes for design. They are oracle bones, Hongwu Tongbao gold coins, ancient coins - large cloth Huangqian, red pottery beast-shaped pots, Xuan Shuo Taishou Tiger Charm, Lu Wang's treasure wood seal, Confucius see Laozi portrait stone and jade cow head ornaments, all of which are representative cultural relics of Shandong.
Shaanxi History Museum
The "Bronze Squad" archaeological blind box launched by the Shaanxi History Museum has brought "Meng" to the extreme. The IP of the "Bronze Squad" comes from the 2018 Cultural Relics Super Activation Creative Competition, and their prototype is the Shaanxi History Museum Collection of Fine Cultural Relics Ri JiYi, which is created on the basis of drawing on the common shapes and patterns of traditional Chinese bronzes and using modern sculpture expression techniques. Therefore, there is a set of bronze modeling series works with cute points based on owls, gluttonies, big ones, two owls, cold owls, phoenixes, and owls- "Bronze Detachment".
In addition to the above list, other museums have also emerged many excellent cultural and creative brands, launching a series of blind boxes with themes such as Tang Sancai, Yuanmingyuan, Terracotta Warriors and Horses.
The combination of archaeology and blind box is a meaningful attempt, in the process of experience, people can not only learn the relevant knowledge of ancient relics, as well as the story behind it, but also immerse themselves in the mystery of the hard work and fun of archaeological relics.
See these interesting artifacts and "blind boxes"
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