preface
During the Qing Guangxu Period, the "Chronicle of the Ancient Zhangping Hall" once said: There is a toast tomb under the Toast Village, surrounded by fine magnetic bowls, which shows that the toast base is made.
Throughout the history of China for thousands of years, the ancestors have left us with precious documents and records, a large number of literary works, exquisite craftsmanship and exquisite handicrafts, which constitute China's cultural treasures. These cultural treasures are either passed on or protected, and the Chinese civilization is continuously passed on to future generations. All kinds of cultural treasures are the wealth handed down from the ancestors, some of which are of great value, while some of which cannot be measured by money at all. These cultural relics represent the wisdom of the ancestors, are the products of a specific era, and the historical and cultural significance they represent are extraordinary, so we attach great importance to the protection of cultural relics.
Artifacts handed down from thousands of years ago are either passed down from generation to generation or are hidden under the yellow sand until they are discovered. A large number of cultural relics in the mainland today actually come from the excavation of ancient tombs. From the founding of New China to the present, the mainland has found ancient tombs in the whole land of China, and each discovery will bring shock to the world, and the funerary products inside are very rich, which has contributed a lot to the archaeological history of the mainland. In 2008, an ancient tomb was discovered in Chongqing, which attracted widespread attention because of its strangeness. Chongqing built a road to dig up the "bowl tomb" of the Qing Dynasty, unearthing as many as 2,000 blue and white porcelain bowls, but this expert is full of sad faces, why is this?
Discover bowl tombs
As we all know, some of the wisdom of the ancients is not outdated in the present, and it is even difficult to be surpassed. Even though we have advanced precision instruments and technologies today, the exquisite objects handmade by the ancients are sometimes difficult to reproduce. Many cultural relics are now placed in the Palace Museum, becoming unique objects in the world, representing specific eras and cultural significance.
This tomb is different from the traditional sense of the tomb as we know it. The tombs that we most people know are made of rammed earth, and the ancient royal family and nobles will add a large number of gold and silver jewelry for burial, which constitutes a whole tomb. In addition, other types of tombs are very rare, and the tombs found this time are one of these rare. This is a tomb composed of bowls, and its discovery can be said to have occupied the favorable conditions of the time and place.
In 2008, a highway in Chongqing was repaired, when the highway construction team was working, but the staff found a problem, the more they dug, the more obstructed, the more difficult it was, the experienced staff immediately realized that there was a problem under the road, so they carefully dug it, and the results also surprised them. It is a bowl tomb with a large number of blue and white porcelain bowls superimposed on top of each other, and in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the staff reported the matter to the relevant departments.
Blue and white porcelain bowl
The relevant departments also sent experts to survey at the first time, and after a careful investigation, the experts determined that this was a Bowl Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, which contained thousands of blue and white porcelain bowls. Blue and white porcelain bowls developed rapidly in the Tang Dynasty, even to the point of flooding. By the Time of the Song Dynasty, blue and white porcelain was still loved by people, and in the Yuan Dynasty, blue and white porcelain bowls slowly declined. However, during the Yuan Dynasty, the porcelain bowls of Jingdezhen have begun to dominate, and until now, the porcelain of Jingdezhen is still well received and loved.
And this discovered blue and white porcelain bowl tomb has many blue and white porcelain bowls, which can only be enjoyed by rich and noble families at a glance. Although these porcelain bowls are not very beautiful, but suddenly found so many bowls, experts are very excited to sort out more than 2,000 blue and white porcelain bowls. In fact, in the Qing Dynasty, blue and white porcelain bowls have been unpopular, in order to sell their own blue and white porcelain bowls, merchants conveyed a concept to the people, that is, if a person places a lot of blue and white porcelain after death, then the person's afterlife will be worry-free.
The sadness of the experts
However, it did not take long for the experts to show a sad look on their faces. It turns out that this bowl tomb is not something that ordinary people can build, but represents the dignitaries and dignitaries before they were born, so the tomb cannot be without other things, so experts believe that there must be other valuable things in this tomb.
However, contrary to expectations, a careful examination found that there were no other burial chambers at all, which meant that the tomb had been looted by tomb robbers, and now only this porcelain bowl remained. A large number of cultural relics have been lost, so the experts are very distressed.
epilogue
Cultural relics are alive, and the value represented is not only derived from money, but more importantly, the cultural value it contains. Nowadays, there are still many precious cultural relics on the mainland, and there are still many cultural relics that cannot be properly protected, so that each of us should have the responsibility to protect cultural relics, so that the thousand-year-old culture can be passed on and carried forward.
Reference: Chronicle of the Guzhangping Hall