From the Three Dynasties of Antiquity to the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, the civilization of China for thousands of years has passed down a large number of rare treasures.
There are many treasures and cultural relics, not only of great value, but also of unrivaled appearance.
Ming Dynasty: Kowloon Nine Phoenix Crown
In the Palace Museum in Beijing, the phoenix crown of Empress Xiaoduan of the Ming Dynasty was unearthed in the Dingling Tomb.
The crown is 27 cm high and weighs 2,320 grams, and is embellished with more than 3,500 pearls and more than 150 stones of various colors.
The entire phoenix crown is made of the best silk veil, there are nine golden dragons and nine phoenixes in front and back, the head of the golden phoenix is down, and the mouth is tied with teardrop-shaped pearls, and when wearing the phoenix crown, the pearl drops will shake with the steps.
In addition, the phoenix crown also uses the traditional point green process, which is still shiny and quite gorgeous after hundreds of years, and looks extremely magnificent with gold wire.
Song Dynasty: Obscure Heavenly Eye Tea Cup
At present, there are only three and a half pieces in the world, and the only one in the domestic collection is the only one that has been mutilated, and the rest are treasured in Japan.
The Obsidian Tianmu Bowl, which is the black glaze of the Song Dynasty, was used by people fighting tea at that time, and the Japanese described this bowl as being able to see the starry sky scene as if seen at night by the sea, called "the universe in the bowl".
Place the Obsidian Tea Cup in the dark, and its flares will flash a slightly demonic light, and the color is unpredictable, allowing the viewer to make associations about the stars of the universe.
Tang Dynasty: Mandarin duck lotus petal pattern gold bowl
The gold ware of the Tang Dynasty, excavated in Hejiao Village in Xi'an and hidden in the Shaanxi History Museum, has a total of two pieces, which may be the drinking utensils used by the royal family during the Tang Dynasty.
Each lotus petal unit of the Golden Bowl is carved with decorative patterns, the upper layer is the pattern of animals, such as Mandarin duck, parrot, fox and wild duck, etc., and the lower layer is the pattern of honeysuckle flowers.
The blank space of the lotus petals is decorated with birds and clouds, and the inner wall of the bowl has a book inscription, which is the weight of the bowl.
Tang Dynasty: Spiral rosewood five-string pipa
The five-stringed pipa during the Tang Dynasty was very popular, and in modern terms, it is a "blockbuster" instrument.
However, after the Tang Dynasty, the five-string pipa gradually disappeared in Middle-earth, and a large number of Tang Dynasty cultures introduced to Japan in that year were relatively well preserved, including the five-string pipa.
At present, todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan, treasures a five-string pipa that was given by the Tang Dynasty and brought back by Japanese monks, that is, a five-string pipa with spiral rosewood.
In addition to the panel is paulownia wood, the others use the best rosewood, inlaid with a large number of precious screws, extremely exquisite carving, there are a large number of exquisite characters, animal figures.
Yuan Dynasty: Glass lotus toddler
Treasured in Gansu, excavated from the Wang Shixian family cemetery in Dingxi Zhangxian County, its owner is the Wang clan of the Longxi Wang clan in the Yuan Dynasty.
The glass lotus flower tray was unearthed in the tomb of Wang Weixian, who was the grandson of Wang Shixian and the Great Situ of the Yuan Dynasty.
The whole tray is made of blue translucent glass, the body is seven-petal lotus-shaped, and the outer edge of the tray is eight-petal lotus-shaped, like a blue water lily blooming under the night.
Ming Dynasty: Agate plum cup
Agate is rich in color, known as "a thousand kinds of agate jade", The Wuhan Museum treasures an agate plum cup made during the Ming Dynasty, shaped like a bowl, the volume is much smaller, used as water to drink tea.
This agate plum cup, carved from a whole piece of agate stone, is a mixture of yellow and white in color, transitioning round and texture is very lustrous.
The mouth of the plum blossom cup is exquisitely carved out of the shape of a six-petal plum blossom, the outer wall shows the petals with a relatively deep carved line, and the cup ears are embellished with two carved plum blossoms, which is unique.
Qing Dynasty period: Hibiscus stone cockroach ear cover furnace
At present, it is treasured in the Nanjing Museum, and both the appearance value and the production process can be called a national treasure-level cultural relics against the sky.
The whole body presents a warm and tender pink hue, the color is gorgeous and pure, hibiscus stone is also known as pink crystal, the texture is extremely brittle and fragile, and it is extremely difficult to carve.
Shang Dynasty: Bronze Sacred Tree
A symbol of the ancient Shu civilization of the Shang Dynasty, it is now treasured in the Guanghan Sanxingdui Museum in Sichuan.
There are eight bronze sacred trees, of which the restored one is 395 cm high, which is the largest single bronze artifact found in the world.
The lower end of the sacred tree has a mountain-shaped base, with a tall and upright trunk, branches, fruits and birds, all branches are soft and drooping, there are short branches in the middle of the branches, and there are small flower buds with hollow patterns, and the flower buds have the shape of a small bird.
The bronze sacred tree used the world's most advanced bronze casting technology at that time, and was the master of bronze casting in the ancient era, reflecting the worship of the sun god by the ancestors of ancient Shu, and was considered to have the special function of psychic and theosophical.
Eastern Jin Dynasty: Glass jars
It is treasured in the Nanjing Museum and excavated from the tomb of Gao Wei and his wife, the parents of gao Song, a famous minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
The glass jar is 7.1 cm high and 9.1 cm in diameter, and the overall color is white and blue, the transparency is quite good, and the glass contains a lot of small bubbles.
The abdomen and bottom of the glass jar have a round pattern polished around it, which is not produced in China, but comes from an exotic land.
According to historical records, Gao Wu had close contact with the Hu monks in the Western Regions, and it is not surprising that this glassware came from the Western Regions.
Tang Dynasty: Beast head agate cup
Tang Dynasty jade is the only beautiful jade carving in the Tang Dynasty so far, and it is also the most exquisite workmanship among the Tang Dynasty jades.
The Tang Beast Head Agate Cup is 15.6 cm long and 5.9 cm in diameter, taking the shape of a horn-shaped beast head, unearthed in a nameless treasure in Hejia Village, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, and is still unknown.
The biggest feature of the beautiful color jade carving is to take the title according to the material, because the material is specially made to carve, this agate cup itself is carved with an extremely rare light red agate, the color is round and natural, which can be called a unique product.
Ming Dynasty: Golden cicada jade leaf
The treasures in the collection of the Nanjing Museum were unearthed in 1954 from the tomb of the Ming Dynasty's Hongzhi Dynasty Jinshi Zhang Anwan family, which was originally an ornament worn by noble women in the hair.
The golden cicada jade leaves are extremely exquisitely crafted, the small golden cicadas are carved vividly, and the leaves under the golden cicadas are carefully polished with Hetian mutton fat white jade, whether the veins or thickness and shape of the leaves, they are almost the same as the real leaves.
Ancient cicada-shaped objects were mostly used as funerals, and the ancients believed that after death, people could be "reborn" like cicadas.
Qing Dynasty: Qianlong Gold Inlaid Treasure Jin Ou Yonggu Cup
There are four court gold objects in the Qianlong era, three of which are pure gold materials, one is copper gilded materials, the Palace Museum in Beijing is a pure gold material made in the first year of Jiaqing, and the remaining three are one in Taipei and two in London.
The Jin Ou Yonggu Cup in the Palace Museum is inlaid with a large number of gemstones on the outer cup wall to form a pattern, the flower buds are pearls and red sapphires, and there are deformed dragon ears on both sides, inlaid with pearls.
The Jin Ou Yonggu Cup was a rare drinking vessel for emperors in the Qing Dynasty court.
Every New Year of the Qing Dynasty, when the emperor held the opening ceremony, he dedicated this cup, and in the early morning of the New Year, he had to put the Jin Ou Yonggu Cup on the rosewood long case in front of the window of the Yangxin Hall, and inject Tu Su wine into the cup.
North Dynasty: Duck-shaped glass note
It was excavated from the tomb of Feng Sufu of Northern Yan and is now in the Liaoning Museum.
This glassware is pure in texture and complete as new, both in shape and Art Deco style belong to the Roman glass system, blowpipe molding and hot paste glass strips and other techniques are commonly used in ancient Rome glass technology.
This object belongs to soda-lime glassware, which was not produced in China at that time, but was the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Region, which passed through the Desert North Steppe through the Silk Road and entered the Northern Yan.