Introduction: The value of cultural relics can often not be measured in money. The cultural and historical value of cultural relics is immeasurable, and even no amount of money can buy them.
Cultural relics are often more precious in age, especially those with text or pattern information on them, which is very important for the study of history.
In the pre-Qin period, Ding was famous. After Da Yu ruled the waters and pacified Kyushu, he cast Jiuding to commemorate his great achievements. Over time, people have given ding a special meaning.
[1] Ding of the Zhou Dynasty
The weight of the country.
The origin of Ding dates back to ancient times. The earliest Ding was not made of bronze, and humans had earlier hollowed out the middle of the stone in order to carry food and water in the Stone Age.
This is the original cause of Ding. With the development of human society, tools have gradually evolved from stone tools to bronze tools. Ding was also made of bronze.
By the Zhou Dynasty, bronze smelting technology reached its peak. Ding's casting technique gradually evolved into an art, as there was no papermaking at that time.
The state records major events, often on the top. Thus the cultural significance of Ding is highlighted. Especially in the Zhou Dynasty, Ding was given great significance.
Ding symbolizes the supreme power of a country, because it is inseparable from the ding in the sacrifice, so the ding transforms into an artifact. The Zhou Dynasty was famous for its Zhou rites.
In the ceremonial system, it is stipulated that Zhou Tianzi should be equipped with twelve dings, princes should be equipped with nine dings, and doctors and scholars should be reduced in turn. This regulation on the number of Dings reflected the strict hierarchy of the Zhou Dynasty.
At that time, the king of Chu disobeyed the rule of Zhou Tianzi in the Central Plains and wanted to set up another mountain. He expressed his ambition in the form of winning the Central Plains. During the Warring States period, the King of Qin, In order to lift the ding, did not hesitate to die.
All this shows the position of Ding in the hearts of the ancients. Ding is no longer the vessel of food in ancient times, but an instrument of power and etiquette.
In fact, ding is still very good as a cooking vessel. Because the material of Ding is bronze, the heat transfer is fast. Especially suitable for eating hot pot, the copper hot pot we eat now, the principle is from Ding.
During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, ding was used during sacrifices, and generally for cooking food. For example, boil beef and mutton. The cooked beef and mutton can also be packed in ding.
As for the use of dings in burning incense and burning offerings, this was a later habit.
During the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the state attached great importance to the food used in sacrifices, and the ancients paid attention to sincerity.
[2] Mao Gongding of the Western Zhou Dynasty
Net red level national treasure.
There are many Dings left behind in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and many of them still exist in the world. After all, the material is bronze, and it will not decay after sleeping underground for thousands of years.
But the reason why Mao Gongding can become an Internet celebrity-level national treasure is because the experience of Mao Gongding is really legendary. Unearthed during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, many people have paid for it with their lives.
There is another important reason, Mao Gongding has not been transported back to the mainland so far, which is the same as the bronze beast head of the zodiac, which has not been transported back to the mainland for a day, and every day has touched people's hearts.
Compared with the Western Zhou Dynasty, Mao Gongding is not inferior. All are Ding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and all have inscriptions on them. The Western Zhou Dynasty Keding is currently in the Shanghai Museum.
It is very convenient to want to visit. Therefore, relatively speaking, the fame of the Western Zhou Dynasty Keding is not as good as that of Mao Gongding. In addition, Mao Gongding not only has historical and archaeological value.
Because the inscription on the top is very well written, it is of great artistic value. That way people are more interested in it. Although Mao Gongding was not on the mainland, his current state was intact.
It is now in the national palace museum in Taipei. Many people come here just to be able to see it.
Mao Gongding is also famous because the inscription recorded on the Ding is the longest surviving bronze.
[3] It was sold by the villagers for 300 taels of silver
The ignorant are fearless.
Mao Gongding was unearthed in the 23rd year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty. The excavation site was in a village in Qishan County, Shaanxi Province. Qishan was the birthplace of the Zhou Dynasty.
Many Zhou Dynasty artifacts have been unearthed there. Mao Gongding was dug up by a villager. As soon as the news was unearthed, it didn't go away. Attracted many antique dealers.
The villager also had a hazy premonition that what was dug out was not an ordinary piece of scrap copper and rotten iron, after all, so many people wanted to get it, which meant that it was worth the money.
But as a villager, in the closed era of the Qing Dynasty, how much this Mao Gongding could be worth, this villager's psychology did not count.
Poverty limits one's imagination. In the eyes of a penniless person, a bowl of rice and a steamed bun are extremely precious things, and if you tell him that they are extremely valuable, he may not believe it.
The antique dealer seized on the shortcomings of the villagers who had never seen the world, and first seduced them with small profits. The villagers were almost fooled, but fortunately, other antique dealers also wanted to get it.
Seeing that there are other people who increase the price upwards, the villagers are not stupid, naturally whoever gives more money will sell to whom, so they take turns to bid,
In the end, this Mao Gongding was bought by an antique dealer for 300 taels of silver.
epilogue:
In short, the net red level national treasure: Western Zhou Mao Gongding, unearthed during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, was sold to an antique dealer by villagers for 300 taels of silver, do you think he lost money?
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