Nowadays, people gradually begin to like collecting, and the treasures collected are often found outside, while most of the cultural relics in the museum are obtained during archaeological excavations, and some are donated by people's families.
People's feelings about museums are very complicated, and museums show the ancient culture of the city to a certain extent, because most of the cultural relics are found in this city, they will be collected by the Bo Museum in the city where they were discovered, and the Forbidden City is different.
In addition to the cultural relics collected in the Forbidden City, there are individual special cultural relics, and today I want to talk about a cultural relics collected in the Forbidden City, which is almost a common thing in every household, and it is very cheap, but this cultural relic is very valuable, and even the materials of this cultural relic are very rare.
In December 2016, the sixth clean-up of cultural relics in the collection was completed in the Forbidden City, and a total of 1862690 cultural relics were cleaned up, of which 1683336 were precious cultural relics.
For decades, every year, many collections will enter the Forbidden City, and some cultural relics are not yet discovered to their value, such cultural relics will be placed in the warehouse, such a tattered cool mat, is the precious cultural relics in the "fish that slipped through the net".
In the 1870s, the Forbidden City did a clean-up of the collection, and when the staff was cleaning up a pile of straw mats, they found that there was a straw mat, and the straw mat was also wrapped in a mat, which looked very special, and there was a faint white light on the outside.
After wiping the dust, the onlookers were stunned, because they saw that the material was very precious ivory, which was an ivory mat!
This is the Yongzheng Emperor's summer artifact, an ivory mat, which was paid tribute by Guangdong officials. Don't look down on this mat, it is 216 cm long, 139 cm wide, but only 3 mm thick, all made of ivory, not only smooth, but also can be flipped at will, in the hot summer, you can lie on such a smooth and cool mat, it is too comfortable.
More importantly, after hundreds of years of tempering, this set of ivory mats is still very strong, never broken, this must have been specially treated, but unfortunately no one has been able to solve this mystery until now.
For this kind of summer weapon, the Yongzheng Emperor must have been ecstatic when he got it, but soon he got a message that it would take at least 60 skilled craftsmen to make such an ivory mat, and then it would take 18 months to complete.
In fact, the Yongzheng Emperor was a very frugal emperor, so he did not allow others to use "luxury" to describe himself, so in order to maintain his own image, the Yongzheng Emperor ordered: Never produce ivory mats in the future!
After that, the Yongzheng Emperor placed this ivory mat in the far corner of the place, and never used it again, and over time, such a technique was lost.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi was in order to maintain his luxurious life, so he sold antiques and treasures in the palace every day. At this moment, many eunuchs thought of putting this ivory mat in the grass mat and taking advantage of the chaos to take it out of the palace.
However, for various reasons, the last cool mat was not taken out of the palace, and it was always placed in the palace. According to records, there are only 5 such ivory mats in the country, but only 3 have been handed down well, and two are incomplete and do not know whereabouts, it can be said that this cool mat is a rare treasure.
Subsequently, industry experts actually gave a high price of 20 million yuan after its valuation, such a high price is partly given to the craftsmen, part of which is given to the value of the ivory itself, ivory is very precious, and now it is illegal to harm wild animals, so the ivory mat will not have it again.