When it comes to "crystal cups", people often think of,
The glass in which we drink water, or the goblet at various cocktail parties, the goblets filled with grape wine, and so on.
However, if you want to say that the Warring States also have "crystal cups", many people may not believe it.
But in fact, it does exist!
It is said that as early as 1990, in the town of Banshan in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province (now called Banshan Street), near a brick and tile factory called workers and peasants, workers were working, and inadvertently found a robbery hole with a diameter of one meter.
Later, after expert excavations, near the robbery cave, a huge Warring States Tomb was found, named: Warring States Tomb No. 1.
In this Warring States No. 1 tomb, many funerary items such as crystal, agate, glass, jade, and primitive porcelain have been unearthed, and the number of them has reached 51 pieces.
Among them, there is one piece, the most peculiar, but also the most precious, it is the famous national treasure level cultural relics - the Warring States Crystal Cup.
This crystal cup, the reason why it is precious, there are two main reasons.
First: it is the largest piece of early crystal artifacts unearthed in China so far, although ancient crystal vessels have been occasionally found before, but in terms of size, this is the largest.
Second: the shape resembles a modern glass, although it is a cultural relic of more than 2,000 years ago, but in terms of shape, it is very similar to the modern glass, and the production process of this Warring States crystal cup is excellent, and it is not easy to make such a fine product more than 2,000 years ago.
Perhaps, it is precisely because it resembles a modern glass that there is still controversy about this artifact for so many years.
Some people say: This may be a modern thing, otherwise, it would not be so similar to modern glasses.
There are even people, on a whim, who say:
This so-called Warring States crystal cup, may be the tomb robber, inadvertently discarded, after the bucket, the drinking cup carried by the body, left in the ancient tomb, later people found, mistakenly thought it was the Warring States Crystal Cup.
In fact, from a scientific point of view, the crystal cup is also a kind of glass, the most important ingredient is also silica, but it introduces lead, barium, zinc, titanium and other substances. Because this glass has a high transparency and refractive index, its exterior is clean and crystalline, so it is called: crystal glass.
However, this Warring States Crystal Cup, which was identified by experts that year, is indeed a cultural relic of the Warring States period.
And, back in 2002,
This cultural relic, it has been determined as a national treasure level cultural relics, is forbidden to go abroad for exhibition, at present, the collection in the Hangzhou Museum, is the Hangzhou Museum's "treasure of the town hall".
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