The "museum" is an important place for collecting, collecting, displaying and researching representatives of natural and cultural heritage. When visiting museums around the world, some strangely shaped cultural relics can always catch the attention of tourists in an instant. In the British Museum, there are ten plates on the booth, and the objects in the plates are very strange, they actually reveal a secret about the Ming Dynasty to everyone, and what is this secret?
The British Museum is the world's oldest and largest comprehensive museum, according to relevant information, the museum has a total collection of more than 8 million pieces, of which more than 8 million pieces, ten plates are placed in a conspicuous position for visitors to enjoy.
The ten pottery plates in the museum, each about 11 centimeters in diameter, are the most "strange", and each plate has a porcelain food. What is the specific purpose of these pottery plates, and is it just a common ornament?
During the feudal society period, the ancients believed in the soul, the afterlife, and so on, and they believed that death was a change in the state of human life, not the end of life. Therefore, in order to make the deceased better off in another world, the ancients implemented a thick burial system and regarded death as life.
In costume TV dramas, we often see scenes of ancient people returning to their hometowns to worship, as well as scenes of thick burials of ancestors, who will prepare offerings of lamb, pork, fruits and so on in advance. But there is a problem: the old ancestors are buried in the mausoleum, must be buried with the coffin with the funeral sacrifice, normal food will rot for a long time. To solve this problem, the ancients ordered craftsmen to burn food in clay and place it in the offering dish, so that the "food" in the tomb would not deteriorate. The ten plates in the museum are the "treasures" of the offerings in the tombs of the ancients.
After analyzing the shape and firing method of the saucer, the experts determined that the pottery plate was an object from the Ming Dynasty. The offerings in the pottery dish reveal two pieces of information to us: First, there are lambs, fish, meat, steamed buns, baked cakes and other foods in the offerings, which fully proves that the richness of the Ming Dynasty diet is far more than that of the West; second, through the analysis of the food in the pottery dish, we can clearly know the offerings of the Ming Dynasty, which is of great significance for future generations to study the funeral culture of the Ming Dynasty.
After tourists saw the ten plates, they believed that everyone was curious about where they were unearthed. Next, Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you:
In ancient mainland china, lamb, fish, and meat were common foods that could be eaten by both the upper class nobles and the common people. However, the north and south of the continent have very different food cultures due to differences in geography and climate.
As we all know, northerners mainly use pasta, southerners mainly use rice, and the staple foods in the plate are steamed buns and roasted wheat, which are popular foods for northerners. From this we can deduce that the ten plates were unearthed in the north. But the specific place where it was unearthed needs to be further investigated to come up with the final mystery.
"Cultural relics" are three-dimensional photographs of ancient life, even more exquisite and detailed than photos. Through the study of pottery plates in the British Museum, we further understand the funeral culture and offering system of the Ming Dynasty, which are important evidence of the history of the Han Dynasty studied by later generations. If you are interested in these ten plates, you can go to the British Museum to take a look and feel the unique charm of the cultural relics up close.