Warring States Crystal Cup, I believe that the netizens who went to visit the Hangzhou Museum must know, a few days ago we also introduced the Warring States Crystal Cup again, the Warring States Crystal Cup is now the treasure of the town museum in the Hangzhou Museum, and it is also listed as a national treasure-level cultural relic that is forbidden to go abroad for exhibition, but this Warring States Crystal Cup has always been very controversial, many Western scholars and experts, even including some of our own domestic netizens, questioned that it is a counterfeit product, how could there be such a "crossing" crystal cup in the Warring States era thousands of years ago?
In fact, many people think so can also be understood, in fact, when the Warring States Crystal Cup was unearthed, both the archaeologists and experts were shocked, and the local experts in Hangzhou at that time were also undecided about it, so they ordered people to take it to Beijing and find top cultural relics experts to identify the technology, but the result given was: It is a crystal cup from the Warring States Era, which really shocked the archaeological community.
This Warring States crystal cup is actually a kind of crystal products, and many tombs have also found a large number of crystal cultural relics, which shows that in fact, the ancient crystal technology process has been very mature, can not be said because this Warring States crystal cup and our modern water cup is very similar, it is questioned whether it is crossed or counterfeit.
Fortunately, just 16 years after the excavation of the Warring States Crystal Cup, that is, in 2006, a tomb from the Warring States period was found again in Gansu, and another "water cup" was found in its tomb, and its excavation was completely shut up for those who had questioned the forgery of the Warring States Crystal Cup.
This Warring States tomb in Gansu is the Zhangjiachuan Majiayuan Cemetery, it is located in Gansu Tianshui Majiayuan, indeed the archaeological team at that time because it found the terrain here is too strange, did not expect that after the archaeological survey actually found a tomb.
In the Majiayuan cemetery in Zhangjiachuan, our archaeological team still found a large number of funerary items, such as gold, bronze, silver, iron, agate, turquoise, bone ware, etc., and what made the archaeological team very happy was the discovery of a pottery cup, which was later a blue-glazed pottery cup.
The picture above is the blue glaze pottery cup, we look down is not very exquisite, at the same time experts found that the shape and style of this blue glazed ceramic cup is actually very similar to the Warring States Crystal Cup, and our modern water cup is also similar, and this blue glaze ceramic cup is even more complicated than the production process of the Warring States Crystal Cup, but the pottery cup we unearthed is still a lot, but the Warring States Crystal Cup is the only one, so the Warring States Crystal Cup is so valued by our experts.
In fact, if you are interested, you can go to the Hangzhou Museum to admire the Warring States Crystal Cup, after watching it you will definitely be shocked, and find that it is actually very different from our modern crystal cup!