"National Treasure" is a cultural exploration program launched by CCTV, telling the past and present lives of cultural relics, although it looks like a popular science program, but it is matched with actors and brings cultural relics back to life.
Teacher Fu Dalong played Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng in "National Treasure", superb acting skills, perfect reproduction of the domineering spirit of the first emperor a thousand years ago, and also introduced the history of the bronze crane, can you imagine that it is a popular science program, is not more like an interesting historical drama?
The first season of "National Treasures" unites nine large museums such as the Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum and Hunan Museum; the second season adds eight museums such as Shanxi, Shandong and Yunnan; and the third season joins hands with nine historical cities to explore the history of Chinese civilization.
However, there are so many cultural relics in the museum, and they will not be put on the table one by one, so I will introduce you to a few little-known cultural relics, and when you see them, you will know that the ancients actually had "funny" times.
Turtle toad fish pottery lamp
Wanjia lanterns were often used in ancient times to describe the prosperity of a city, but from the pre-Qin to Qin and Han dynasties, the lights were not fully popularized, and people followed the law of life of sunrise and sunset.
Of course, the lack of popularity of lights does not mean that there is no light, this tortoise toad fish pottery lamp is specially made by the eastern Han dynasty.
At first glance at this lamp, I thought it was a crab, but if you look closely, it is a pottery lamp composed of turtles, toads, and fish fins.
The ancients created this pottery lamp, naturally there are fables, the turtle bears the weight, symbolizing the sixth son of the dragon, the dragon, and the turtle fables the Xuanwu among the four elephants, which belongs to the god of the north, and the Big Dipper seven stars refer to the north, then the world is winter.
The "Chronicle of Ten Continents" also contains: After the winter solstice, the moon recuperates in the Guanghan Palace. In the eyes of the ancients, Guanghan Palace is also called the Toad Palace, and the moon will only appear at night, all of which comes with fables.
Although the shape is somewhat "funny", the ancients also imagined to create this pottery lamp.
Pastel lotus autumn exercise cup
As the name suggests, the Autumn Exercise Cup is a special commemorative cup to commemorate the autumn exercises of the Qing Army.
After experiencing the Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Nation Alliance War, the Qing Dynasty also realized the gap between itself and the Western powers, and held "autumn military training" in order to enrich the country and strengthen the army.
From the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905) to the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), the Qing court held a total of three "autumn exercises".
The first time in Hebei, the second time in Henan, and the third time in Taihu Lake, Anhui; this pastel lotus autumn exercise cup is to commemorate the last autumn exercise.
It is based on a lotus flower, the petals of the cup are a gradient pink of lower depth and upper light, and the handle is green, if you do not look closely, it is difficult to distinguish that this is a cup.
Although it is to test the army on the edge of Taihu Lake, the military exercise is a very serious matter, and it is really strange to create such a "small fresh" cultural relic.
Eastern Jin Dynasty "Tomb Master Life Map"
Although Cai Lun of the Han Dynasty invented the "Cai Hou Paper" but at that time it was completely a "Luoyang paper expensive" social status quo, to the Three Kingdoms period, people are still using bamboo Jane, this Eastern Jin Dynasty "Tomb Master Life Map" is the earliest paper painting found in the mainland, although the style is slightly ancient, but also has a certain archaeological value.
A whole picture is 106 cm long and 46 cm wide, made up of 6 pieces of paper of different sizes, from left to right there are horses, servants, sun, branches, holding a fan in the middle should be the owner of the tomb, and there is a woman next to him, judging from the color of the costume may be his wife. In the lower right is a servant kneeling with a blowing fire.
This painting also reflects the life of the nobles in Gaochang in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Western Regions, allowing us to peek into the daily life of the ancients.
Five-star out of the Orient Lee Chinese brocade
Seeing this piece of brocade, most people will think that it is a modern product, but this brocade was excavated from the site of Niya two thousand years ago, and it also has a familiar name "Jingjie Ancient City".
Is it true that two thousand years ago, the ancients predicted today's China, in fact, in ancient times, China was a local concept, pointing to the Central Plains, Middle-earth.
"Five stars out of the East to benefit China" later there are three words "to please the Southern Qiang", it can be seen from here that this is only about a military war.
The "History Book and Book of Heavenly Officials" contains: Among the five stars and the heavens, they are accumulated in the East and The Chinese are profitable; in the West, the foreign soldiers are profitable.
In modern times, the five-star pearl is an astronomical spectacle, but in the eyes of the ancients, it predicts the victory or defeat of the war, and this piece of brocade just happens to be "Li Dongfang", which shows that the Central Plains Dynasty won the war at that time.