The Case of the Nation of Bo Fans (Series 4)
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Seventh: Guobo raises pigs
Some people once joked that the ancient Chinese people must have liked animals, so the embroidery on the chest of the civil and military officials was either birds or beasts, known as "clothed animals".
Of course, this is a joke, but in the exhibition of the National Expo, you can indeed see a lot of animals, and their shapes are strange, indicating that animals and animals have an important position in the ancient culture of the mainland.
The bronze tiger tells everyone what is meng.
You can even see meat cases with dog heads on one side and pig heads on the other.
Seeing the dog's head on the meat case, there is some sense of violation. This is not that there were also dog lovers in that era, but ancient China took the dog born of the wolf as meat, considering the cost, after all, it is a strange thing. This food culture is well documented in history, the Han Dynasty general Fan Duo was the slaughter of dogs, and the broth first unearthed in Xianyang was also made of dog meat.
The pottery dogs unearthed from the burial pit of the Han Jing Emperor, at first glance, I thought they were wolves, but they were the daily food of the Han Dynasty!
Seeing the pig's head on the other side is much more reassuring - in case you travel through the past, there is still pig's head meat to eat.
The country's bono... Wrong, the large number of pigs on display shows that ancient China attached great importance to this meat beast.
In the Red Mountain culture, there is a jade pig dragon.
This thing actually links the Chinese totem dragon and the pig, which really makes people feel brain-opening.
The celadon sheep candlesticks of the Eastern Jin Dynasty let you know what a brain hole is.
In fact, as a foodie, Lao Sa is still a bit of a belly slander - how did this pig raise it, too thin, right?
You see, our ancients can make frogs so rich, why are pigs and pigs slender?
In fact, this is the real situation that reflects the ancient pig breeding.
Although the pigs of that era had been domesticated, it could be seen that they were still very close to wild boars, and this kind of guy was certainly not easy to eat round.
In the eyes of the ancients, this pig may be a fairly agile animal, such as this one, which makes people think that they are related to things like mink rats.
The pig in the Han Dynasty portrait brick is not only slender, but also has a wild mane.
Wild boar is a completely different personality animal from the domestic pig, a friend of mine with his father in Hubei when he was a child, the sow raised and the wild boar on the mountain did not get along, gave birth to a group of little guys with long mouths and patterns, ate as long as the meat was less, and bit people, almost killing people. (Related reading: Chinese Navy killed a mountain fish in Shennongjia? Sounds more outrageous than blowing up a wild man... ）
Some people have counted that domesticated domestic animals will have shorter and shorter mouths and fatter bodies, and pigs are no exception. It is after thousands of years of domestication, along with the gradual maturity of pig technology, that pigs have developed to today's fat state.
As I was talking, I suddenly saw this exhibit, which is said to be a primitive society, how can this be explained?!
Well, in that era, there were also pig breeding models.
Number Eight: The unicorn ran to China
Among the various animal-shaped exhibits exhibited in the National Expo exhibition, perhaps the most beautiful is the artwork of various horses. Ancient China attached great importance to horses, leaving a large number of Chinese characters describing different breeds of horses, such as barge, 馰, 馵, 馵, 騱, 騚, 驓, 驠, 騴, 駺 and so on.
At first, I thought that the ancient people were a bit pretentious, they were all horses, and the classification was more detailed than that of the biology department teacher.
Later, I realized that in ancient times, having a horse and buying a car today was the same feeling, so although Ferrari and Lada are both cars, the nature is completely different, the price is also very different, of course, to get a different car logo.
In the exhibition hall of the National Expo, there is a pottery horse unearthed in Jingxian County, Hebei Province, which is particularly attractive.
Due to its vivid shape, this horse feels as if it has two wings and soars in the air, and its artistic charm catches up with the flying swallow, which is the symbol of Chinese tourism.
What makes Lao Sa feel particularly noteworthy is that this pottery horse actually has horns!
Between the two ears of this horse, there is a single horn in the shape of a cone.
Looking closely, it can be seen that the horns of this horse are not artificial accessories, but grow on the forehead.
Horses will grow horns? It sounds strange that zoologists must teach such whimsical people a lesson. I remember a sister who talked about the infatuation of a certain brother and said: "Let him wait, wait until the stone blossoms and the horse grows horns." (At that moment, I suddenly felt that the gentle and gentle girl could be very hard-hearted.) ）
However, in history, there are really legends about the horns of horses, but not in China.
On the coat of arms of the British Empire, there is a longhorn horse, which is the famous unicorn in Western legends.
Unicorns are legendary and mysterious beasts, often described as winged white horses with a spiral horn in front of their foreheads. Its legend has been passed down for a long time, existing in the Old Testament as a Hebrew legendary animal, and later in Greco-Roman mythology.
It is said to be a ferocious, sensitive and amorous animal whose horns are detoxifying. However, unicorns have always existed only in legends, and although it is recorded that Alexander the Great's father once captured one, it seems to belong to the mythical first class, and only some scammers use the teeth of a dime whale as a unicorn horn to sell.
Aside from horns, the horned whale bears no resemblance to the legendary unicorn.
However, this pottery horse of the Northern Dynasty of China has the characteristics of a unicorn.
Pottery horses with unicorn features have been unearthed in the Lion Rock tombs of the Western Han Dynasty.
Could they be related to the earliest Sino-Western exchanges along the Silk Road?
There has never been a written record of this, and it doesn't seem like much. However, in the more ancient Chinese legends, there are already unicorn images, such as the famous evil beast Badger. It's just that the prototype of the badger is sheep, and it has nothing to do with horses.
There is also this kind of Tianlu that forms the second general of Hum Ha with the evil spirit, and the prototype of Tianlu seems to be closer to the tiger.
Horns on a tiger's head? Carnivores with this equipment is even more bizarre, reminding me of a Xing Lida style online article:
"In the vast African savannah, a horned wolf ran fast, and finally approached a saber-toothed deer inch by inch. Instead of swooping up and biting like a lion, the horned wolf poked at the saber-toothed deer's ass with its horn... A poke... A poke... The saber-toothed deer was finally annoyed, and turned back to grab the neck of the horned wolf, the horned wolf struggled desperately, convulsing, but the sharp deer teeth had cut off the life of the horned wolf, its movements became weaker and weaker, and finally, the horned wolf's head slowly hung down, and the blood snaked down the wolf horn, moisturizing the vibrant grassland. The scattered wolf's eyes were wide open, and the grass color was reflected in his eyes, as if a little yearning loomed. The saber-toothed deer's nostrils spewed out a scorching stream of blood, dragging the heavy wolf carcass through the trembling horned wolves and back to feed its fawns to be fed..."
This scene is too magical, and the prototype of the National Bo Unicorn Horse should have something else.
In Western legend, the unicorn is a beast from the Himalayas, which is already the frontier of the mainland. This can't help but make us think of a certain association - could there indeed be a one-horned equine on the ancient continent, and at the same time leave a magical legend for the East and the West?
Maybe, people can really look like this.
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