1. The most "expensive" car
Xi'an has the most expensive car, tens of millions of classes, cool sports car? I don't know if you have guessed what the most expensive car is?
If you put tens of millions of sports cars in the present, it can naturally be called incomparable, but don't forget that there is still a torrent of time, it can change a lot of things, ancient things can be described as extremely valuable in the present, not to mention the ancient one or two celebrities, with the wisdom of the society at that time to make things.
This car is the bronze carriage of Qin Shi Huang.
In the 1980s, in a funerary pit of Qin Shi Huang, two bronze carriages were unearthed, but when they were unearthed, they were not complete, no matter how large or small, they had long been damaged, but even if they were not archaeologists, if they were an ordinary person to see, they could easily distinguish the horses, cars and other parts in the carriage.
After the experts' investigation and careful collection, more than 3,000 fragments were protected, all of course made of bronze.
2. Repair the copper carriage
In order to better protect the cultural relics and dig out more useful information from these excavated ancient fragments, the Cultural Relics Bureau immediately organized experts to carry out restoration, which is a huge project, more than three thousand fragments, I don't know how much was lost in the torrent of a thousand years, but in order to restore the historical truth, the experts began to repair intensely.
In the past, the excavated cars are all wooden, so that preservation and restoration are a major problem, and the age of copper carriages, skills, shapes, preservation, etc. occupy a great advantage, and the ancient smelting and carving techniques contained in them have far-reaching value for our long history.
This bronze carriage was not made according to the size of the real artifacts at that time, but it was reduced a lot, although the volume was reduced a lot, but its internal parts and decorations were restored.
The front of the copper carriage is called a high car, and the back is an an security car.
"Stand by the high car, take the Car by the An"
Today, the main thing to talk about is not the two cars of the high car and the security car, but the umbrella and umbrella cover on these two cars. The technical content contained in it is also staggering now.
In fact, umbrellas are common in ancient and modern times, we often see ancient emperors traveling in TV series or pictures, there are honor guards, there are large umbrellas in this honor guard, which actually originated from obstacles, and initially set up large shelters to shield the scorching sun and dust on the road.
In our modern life, whether the weather is sunny or rainy, people often put an umbrella in their bags, an umbrella for dual purposes, shade and rain.
3. The umbrella of the copper carriage
So what is the use of the umbrellas of the two carriages in front of and behind the Qin Shi Huang copper carriage?
The tall car in front is self-locking, which can lock the umbrella handle or open it. Among them, there are many design links such as dark grooves, ring pin buckles, etc., that is, this umbrella can be easily removed.
There are both setting buttons to ensure the stability of the umbrella when driving forward, and there are also gear structures that consolidate the handle and the canopy to ensure that the handle withstands the pressure of the canopy.
Some people will say that this umbrella is used to shade the sun, shade the rain, firmly fixed on the car is not enough, why do you have to make so much trouble, design so many complex structures, umbrellas can also be dismantled and unloaded.
In fact, the famous assassination cases that happened to Qin Shi Huang, Jing Ke and Zhang Liang, etc., which made Qin Shi Huang very concerned about his own safety, this car umbrella after disassembly, is a spear and a large shield, and in the middle of the umbrella handle is hollow, hidden sharp weapons, of course, there are organs, through the organ movement, the umbrella cover can also be moved at will, conforming to the angle of covering the sun, or resisting the angle of the enemy's attack.
It can be said that both offense and defense can be achieved.
From this, we can glimpse a corner of the ancient organ technology, and also look forward to the shock brought to us by the ancients when we can open the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang one day.
bibliography:
The Book of the Later Han Dynasty